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Grammar tips, writing assistance, listening & speaking hints, study advice, and other helpful ways to practice and improve your English.

Is English Hard to Learn

Is English Hard to Learn?

Learning any new language is difficult for most people, and the English language is no exception. Becoming fluent in English requires a lot of commitment, time, and practice.  Although it’s hard work, there are so many benefits that come with learning English! English is widely spoken all around the world, so you will have countless...Continue Reading...

TED-Ed ‘Bird’ Video Lessons – IELTS Preparation at Home

When doing IELTS Preparation at Home, you need to build your knowledge of both vocabulary and concepts. So, this is important in any IELTS study plan you create for yourself. Increasing your range of academic English will help you in all parts of the IELTS test, and these bird video lessons will help! A great website for...Continue Reading...

Top 5 tips to improve Writing IELTS Task 2 Skills

Improve your IELTS Task 2 skills and get a high score in IELTS Writing Task 2 responses for the Academic or General test. Follow these recommended IELTS preparation tips to increase and see your IELTS writing score increase, even if you only prepare for the IELTS at home. You can find more IELTS exam tips...Continue Reading...

‘Animal, Plant, & Environment’ Words

Do you know a lot of animal, plant, and environment words? Learn more words with this Study List! To be more effective with your IELTS or TOEFL preparation at home, you need to increase your knowledge of academic English Vocabulary. If you don’t know that many high-level English words about common academic topics, it will...Continue Reading...

PELA: A Success Story

Learning a new language takes time, effort and energy. A lot of time, effort and energy. “Immersion” is the best technique, and practice, practice, practice! Here are two PELA success stories from this past fall.  These are two students who entered PELA with very elementary English and after just 7 weeks of concentrated effort they...Continue Reading...