Is There a Language Gene
Genes are responsible for pretty much every aspect of who we are as humans, from the color of our hair and the diseases to which we are susceptible to how well we sleep and...
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ST Means Stop
Joseph Aronesty was waking with his college friend Phil Cantessa through their college campus on a sunny day in 1969 when Phil offhandedly said, “All English words that start with ST have something stopping...
How Many Words Do You Have to Know to Speak English?
The English language as a lot of words. Even if you consider words like accept, acceptable, acceptance as part of the same word family, there are still about 500 thousand words. Fortunately, many words...
How Using Your Hands Helps You Speak
One of the reason we use video in the All English program is because communication in English involves more than just knowing what words to say. One important element in communication is gestures. Speech...
How Many Grammar Rules Are There in the English Language?
How many grammar rules are there in the English language? It’s like asking how many words are there in the English language. It’s not an easy number to calculate and it depends who you...
When We Focus on Learning…
“When we focus on instruction rather than learning, we confuse the means with the ends.” ~ Barr and Tag, 1995
How We Learn Words and Their Meaning
Here is an overview of how we learn to understand what words mean and how the All English program uses this process to accelerate your English learning. When we acquire a language as infants,...
You Must Be Able to Say It to Memorize It
In order to be able to memorize a word effectively you need to be able to pronounce it. So it is important to do drills that focus on differentiating similar sounds in English.
