On a regular basis, my students ask me, “Morksensei, how can I improve my English pronunciation?” In an earlier post, I explained five things that linguist Dr. Stephen Krashen would say on this topic, but I have two additional tips […]
Welcome to Part 3 in my series about strategies to prepare, study, and practice for the TOEIC Listening and Reading test. This third part of the 45-minute-long listening section and it’s about conversations. In this part of the test, there […]
With the help of AI (or artificial intelligence), machine translation is getting better and better. It’s scary how accurate the free new technology is becoming. Free, online machine translation tools, such as Google Translate, DeepL, Microsoft Translator, and Apple Translate […]
In my previous post, I gave you some tips to prepare for Part 1 of the TOEIC test. This post deals with Part 2 – the question-response section. There are 25 questions in Part 2. For each one, you’ll hear […]
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the listening section of the TOEIC test is 45 minutes long and has 100 questions in total, divided into four categories or parts. In the first part, you will be presented with a […]
This post is the first of a series on strategies for taking the TOEIC exam. I won’t be teaching you any specific English language skills, but instead, I’ll give you some tips for how to prepare, study, and practice for […]
This is not the first time you have heard much of this information if you’ve been reading my posts or watching my videos, but much of this information is worth repeating – so let’s dive right in! Tip number one: […]
Today’s post is the final segment on a short history of the English language. In the last post, I talked about the impact of invasions from the Vikings and the Normans on the English language. In this video, I’ll share […]
We ended the last post in this series in 793 CE. If you guessed that this is when heathens called Vikings from the north arrived from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, you would be correct! A heathen is a person who […]
The English language has evolved (or changed) a great deal over time. It’s interesting and worth knowing a little about, so today’s post is part one of three parts all about the history of the English language. It’s a long […]