The English Forward team is working quietly behind the scenes to provide our students with an amazing opportunity: Email productivity suite, Mailbutler, has listed English Forward along with other formal Universities. Now, students can choose English...

Do you want to be featured on English Forward’s New Blog? If you’re an English language expert and have previously published content on teaching English, we’d love to have you contribute. It’s an opportunity to share your experience and expertise with...

Any individual offering writing gigs online or educationists will agree without hesitation that homework is a daunting task. What makes it even more challenging is the fact that most assignments have short deadlines, and students may also have more...

We would like to say Gong Hei Fat Choy, Gong Xi Fa Cai 恭喜發財 for all of our friends and community members in Asia! May all you and your family have good health 身體健康, good wealth 財源廣進, and all your wishes come true 心想事成 for coming New Year! ...

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What is Telegram? Telegram has grown in popularity in the secure messaging category since its launch in 2013. Telegram is a messaging app, like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger with a focus on speed and security, it’s super-fast, simple and free. If you...

You've probably heard of the tests called IELTS and TOEFL. What are they, and which one is better to take? Moreover, which is easier? Read on! IELTS stands for "International English Language Testing System", while TOEFL means "Test of English as a...

There are a great many ways to learn English. Learning English online by Skype is one of them. It may seem the best option when we take into consideration the efficient use of time and the availability of the Internet worldwide. However, there are also...

Do you need to improve your business vocabulary? You're in the right place! This article will help you feel more confident in your interviews as well as in business meetings and board rooms from Singapore to Vancouver, from corporate offices to small...

The serious study of English grammar owes much to a Latin grammar book, William Lily's "Grammaticae Rudimenta", first published in 1534 and later authorised by Henry VIII as the only Latin grammar book to be used in schools. In 1586 William Bullokar...

The history of love letters extends all the way back to the beginnings of civilized correspondence. Love letters from ancient Egypt, Imperial China, and William Shakespeare's sonnets have become good examples of how to write on emotional themes. "My...

Mobile learning (m-learning) has been recognized as one of the main additions to the process of learning and teaching a new language. Currently, there are dozens of language learning apps in the App Store (iOS) and Play Store (Android) markets. They...

With the increased use of new technologies such as laptop computers, tablets, and mobile phones, the textese language (also known as txt-speak, chatspeak, txtspk, texting language, SMSish, txtslang, txt-talk, and others) has become very popular, but...

While browsing a dictionary we came across a number of interesting words and expressions that can be fun to read and useful to know. Enjoy reading and write us your suggestions for the next edition of Fun With Words . The you are here arrow on maps...

Studying literature is one of the best, if not the best, ways to learn the English language and to develop a "feel" for it. Once you acquire a rudimentary knowledge of English language constructions, you can then build on them by studying literature at...

If someone asked you to name the most beautiful word or phrase in English, how would you choose it? Would your choice be based on the meaning of the word, its pronunciation, or spelling? In his essay "English and Welsh," J.R.R. Tolkien claimed that...

Astrology tries to determine a correlation between events in the sky (also known as ‘celestial events’) and behavior of people on Earth. Primarily, it’s focused on correlations that cannot be explained by the traditional science and the basic laws of...

So you think you've mastered the English language? Wait until you meet a British person who showers you with some extreme British slang! in Britain, slang dates back to before the 16th century and it's changing all the time; new words and phrases are...

Earlier computer keyboards were based either on teletype machines or keypunches. By the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, all computers used electronic keyboards. The layout of the computer keyboard still owes its origin to the inventor of the first typewriter...