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Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day offers a lively and entertaining method for adding a more impressive list of words to your everyday speech, and for learning how to use them effortlessly and accurately. Besides giving definitions, this invaluable guide also provides root meanings and elements of words so you can increase your vocabulary base by thousands of exciting new words and use them with aplomb in sentences.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition if First You Write a Sentence by Joe Moran, read by Roy McMillan. The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A poet writes in sentences, but so does the unsung author who came up with Items trapped in doors cause delays. A good sentence can...

Five-time winner of Best Education Podcast in the Podcast Awards. Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing and feed your love of the English language. Whether English is your first language or your second language, these grammar, punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer. Grammar Girl is a Quick and Dirty Tips podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this wildly entertaining A to Z of verbal acrobatics, Gyles takes you on a whirlwind tour of our mother tongue – from the origins of words and correct grammar and punctuation, to similes, euphemisms and record breaking tongue twisters (try getting your mouth around floccinaucinihilipification!). An idiosyncratic blend of history, word play, anecdote, and hyperbole, all in 60-second instalments, this is Gyles Brandreth at his word-perfect, Just-a-Minute best. You’ll never mix your metaphors again...

A book for students interested in finding out how many things about the English language have changed, and how many have weathered the test of time. - Summary by jasonb

In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association....

Grammar Lab is the podcast where we unravel the intricacies of the English language, making grammar accessible and fun for everyone. Our grammar, style, punctuation, and usage tips will make you a more effective communicator and feed your love of language.

A charming collection of 14 short American history plays for the very young - ranging from Christopher Columbus to George Washington to Susan B Anthony. (Summary by Maria Therese) Cast:Narrator; First Maid of Honor; Second Woman: AvailleNarrator; Queen Isabella; Pocohantus: CaprishaPageColumbus; First Merchant; Blount; Squanto; Robert E. Lee: Tom CausbyWise Man; Captain Newport; King; Court; People; Richard Henry Lee; Californians; Auctioneer; Union Soldier: Libby GohnLuis; John Smith; William Penn; Noble; First Woman; First Boy; British General; Men; Secretary to the President; Mr. President;...

Subverting an ableist India’s expectations from a disabled person to be ‘inspirational’ and an ‘underdog who made it’ despite their illness, Abhishek Anicca writes about everyday stories of living with disability and chronic illness in this memoir-in-essays. With piercing mindfulness...

Hunter Valley Grammar School’s Podcast, created and hosted by their very own students!Every fortnight, our hosts are joined by special guests from across our school community to discuss events, share stories, and explore what’s shaping HVGS culture. With new episodes released fortnightly, this is your chance to stay connected, inspired, and engaged. Don’t miss it!

The history of a language is the history of the people who speak it, those who read and write it, and those who come into contact with it. Now, this series invites you to explore your heritage from an unconventional angle: through the origin and development of the English language. Leading your expedition is Christopher R. Fee, an award-winning professor and medievalist whose expertise spans Old English, Old Norse, and historical linguistics. With flair and gusto, he draws from this well of knowledge to help you trace the evolution of English across a fascinating range of cultures.

Two Minute English is an educational platform designed to help learners improve their English skills quickly and efficiently. Each lesson focuses on practical, everyday topics and is presented in a simple, easy-to-understand format. With short, concise video lessons that last around two minutes, it offers bite-sized content perfect for learners on the go. The lessons cover a variety of language skills, including grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and common phrases, making it suitable for beginners as well as those looking to refine their language abilities. Whether you're preparing for ...

A compendium of 100 words and phrases smart people use--even if they only kinda sorta (secretly don't) know what they mean--with pithy definitions and fascinating etymologies to solidify their meanings. Your boss makes a joke about Schrodinger's cat--which is something you've heard of but you're...

An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse. Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot...

Brought to you by Penguin. The King's English is Kingsley Amis's authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language. A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, Amis provides indispensable advice about the linguistic blunders and barbarities that lie in...

'Ingenious… a glorious portrait of the great 15th-century prince of learning' Daily Telegraph 'A deeply fascinating, sui generis book by a brilliant scholar-writer, which uses the life story of a Renaissance prodigy to summon an angel-host of ideas, people and stories, all circling the...

In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers - those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak. The Lexicographer's Dilemma poses a pair of questions: What does proper English mean? And who gets to say what's right? Our ideas of correct or proper English have a history, and today's debates over the state of the language - whether about Ebonics in schools, the unique use of language in a South Park episode, or split infinitives in the Times - make sense only in historical context.

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Verben mit Präpositionen (auf Englisch "Phrasal Verbs") machen das Englischlernen nicht gerade einfach. Meistern Sie diesen Aspekt der englischen Grammatik in der Ausgabe April 2015 von Spotlight Audio. Außerdem in diesem Monat: Besuchen Sie Neuseelands Nordküste. Für den Tauchpionier und Abenteurer Jacques Cousteau gehörten die Poor Knights Islands dort zu den Top Ten der Tauchziele der Welt. Und unter den Rubrik "English at Work": Wie begrüßt man Besucher einer Firma am besten?

How do you determine the path you take in life, and what are the key decisions you have made or opportunities you have taken that have shaped who you are today?In each episode of Stories from the Crest, emerging filmmaker, Fraser Pemberton, and TV producer, Claudia Nankervis, explore the choices that have shaped the lives of two Australians who started in the same place, but have very different stories to tell. Join them as they discover unique stories of overcoming challenges, transformative experiences and individual progress.