Huh? What should you say in English when you don’t understand what someone or something means? Come and learn some useful English phrases and play Vicki’s favourite English game with @FluencyMC.
Getting understood in English Read More »
Join Vicki Hollett and Jason R Levine (Fluency MC) for The English Show and practice how we use collocations with the verbs ‘make’ and ‘do’ in English. The English Show is designed for #ESL English learners and it’s packed with conversation and language practice, games, puzzles, raps and great tips to help you learn faster.
Learn the differences in meanings and use of the words lose, loose and loosen with some jokes along the way. We have a free checklist to help you fix common mistakes. Click here to learn more. Click here to see more vocabulary videos and click here to see more grammar videos Lose Lose Loosen Video
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Understanding English speakers can be hard. Here’s an English Show that looks at one of the key things that can make it difficult: reductions. Do you wanna (want to) improve your English pronunciation and listening? Reductions are a great place to start. We’re gonna (going to) help your English take off!
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Learn three ways to get people to do what you want in English. In this lesson we contrast orders, requests and suggestions with the help of our special guest: Super Agent Awesome. At it’s heart, this is a lesson in English pragmatics and in particular, directives. We compare the force that typically goes with structures
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A review of highlights from Simple English Videos in 2016. Jay and Vicki look back on some of the events and their favourite comedy skits and sketches. Click here for more hang out and Q & A videos Hello everyone. Welcome to the end of 2016 show. We’re going to look back at some of
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Learn how we can use the (very useful and very common) suffix -ion to turn many English verbs into nouns. Click here to see more videos about prefixes and suffixes. The ion suffix video I have a question. If a word ends in -ion, what kind of word is it? It’s probably a noun, a
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Here’s one of the happiest songs in the world from the Beach Boys. English learners should sing along because it also provides excellent practice of the meanings and pronunciation of the suffix -ion. I-I love the colorful clothes she wears And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair I hear the sound of a
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We tried streaming live on YouTube for the first time today. 20 minutes before the start we’d run all the checks and our lights, camera and sound all worked perfectly. Apart from a few butterflies in my stomach, we were set to go. 4 minutes before the start my mike stoped working, Jase’s audio connection
The very first English Show! (used to be – used to doing) Read More »
A question and answer session where Vicki and Jay answer viewers’ questions about the English language. They look at the words efficient, effective and effectual, language change, hyphens and also fall and autumn. Click here if you’d like to know more about the words efficient and effective. Transcript: Oh look, here we are again Jay.
Q&A 5 Language change, word frequencies, effectual, autumn, fall and our live show Read More »
