I read on net a technique to memorise vocabulary with two different ways. 1. Imagine places to put different sort of words. For instance, a public park to words related to things, a theatre to words related to feelings, a mountain range to

Ok ok -The word means 'very surprising'. 'Alarming' or 'scaring' are similar words. When somebody guess it I have to ask about it because the word is beautiful but I don't know if it's formal and if I can add it to my vocabulary or not.

Could someone please help me on how to improve my memory ? I find great difficulty in remembering vocabulary, names and things like that... Do you have any suggestions?

What if you forget your pen?

How about trying some cards you would keep in your pockects wherever you go. You might write, say, ten words you want to learn,each with one or two examples of usage,you know, the usual collocations. Then you can turn to them when not busy,as in a

Namaskar. This site has a lot of ways to improve English, you can write things about India, I'd like to read them. You can talk in 'voice message' and talk and listen to others in 'voice chat'. And by reading the threads you'll get new

>> Thanks Pemmican for your well thought out comments. You strike me as a diligent language scholar, so I greatly appreciate what you have to say. Thank you very much, Mike, but I wouldn't say I strike you This is just the way I see it.

Since September 19th is National Talk-like-a-pirate day here in the U.S., I guess I should be prepared with a few well-chosen remarks should need arise. I'm supposing the default accent to be that of Long John Silver (the Wallace Beery

good clarification raul! on further reflection, i think that sentences such as "where is he at?" come from a general tendancy to make contractions - and would always be pronounced "where's he at?" (never as four distinct words, the "is" being

If you would like to improve your vocabulary, www.dictionary.com offer a word of the day, sent to you by email. It's free and it's really interesting, it gives you the definition, pronunciation, examples of its use and also its origin (if