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How To: Practice your listening skills in English

Check out this instructional English language video that demonstrates how to improve your English vocabulary skills, your listening skills, and your grammar skills. This is a lesson for the advanced English language learner. The theme is the 2008 Olympic Games that focus on VOCABULARY, LISTENING, and GRAMMAR skills. This is PART TWO, in which we develop listening skills. Be sure to watch Part One (Vocabulary). Improve your English vocabulary with this instructional video!

How To: Say advanced English vocabulary

Check out this instructional English language video that demonstrates how to improve your English vocabulary skills, your listening skills, and your grammar skills. This is a lesson for the advanced English language learner. The theme is the 2008 Olympic Games that focus on VOCABULARY, LISTENING, and GRAMMAR skills. This is PART ONE, so you will study vocabulary. Be sure to watch the second half. Improve your English vocabulary with this instructional video!

How To: Use at-tanween correctly in the Arabic language

This lesson is part of a series of video language classes which will build a solid foundation for learning how to speak Arabic. The instructor in these instructional videos is a native Arabic speaker who started making his own teaching tutorials in an effort to demonstrate clearly how the language is really spoken back in his home in the Middle East. In this video segment, the instructor will focus on at-tanween.

How To: Learn to speak with a Glasgow Scottish accent

In this three-part accent tutorial, learn how to speak with a Glasgowein, or Glasgow, Scottish accent. Gone over are "typical" everyday phrases such as "awrite mate!" and "watty bounce up n git a booze" in part one, while swear words are taught in part three. As the videomaker states: if you feel strongly against vulgar language, this video may not be for you.

How To: Write the letters of the Arabic alphabet

This two part how to video series will cover the written Arabic language and then speech. This first lesson contains the basic isolated consonant forms. The second lesson will teach how to write basic words and how the isolated consonants change shape depending on where they are in the word. Follow these videos and you will be writing the modern standard Arabic alphabet in no time. Learning Arabic is not as hard as you'd think. If you have a good system you will be able to quickly learn how t...

How To: Say "Welcome to America, Now speak Cherokee"

Check out this instructional language video to learn how to speak Cherokee. In this lesson, learn how to say the phrase "Welcome to America...Now speak Cherokee" in Cherokee. This video provides romanized letters as well as letters from the Cherokee alphabet. This video is great for beginners who want to improve their Cherokee language skills. Practice by learning how to say the phrase "Welcome to America, Now speak Cherokee."

How To: Speak with a Scottish accent

In this ten...yes ten...part tutorial, you'll be finding out how to speak in a Scottish accent. This comes perfect for whenever you meet any Scottish people like Sean Connery or Gerard Butler. This is solely for entertainment purposes only and should not be taken very seriously. This guy is a real Scottsman so he is not some actor.

How To: Use phrasal verbs when speaking English

In this video, we learn how to speak English: An introduction to phrasal verbs. Phrasal verbs are also called two-part and three-part verbs. This is a verb and one or two other short words. Together as a phrase these have a special meaning. The other words are called particles, which come together with the verb to make a different definition. Particles can change the word "figure" to "figure out" and the word "look" to "look through". These particles at the end of the verb change how the word...

How To: Learn the English phonetic alphabet

Learn English with Mr. Duncan as he provides basic grammar instruction and speaks in basic English phrases. Check out this English language tutorial to learn the English phonetic alphabet. Some people think that this is a helpful tool for improving spoken English, while others feel that phonetics slows down the process of learning English and makes it dull and boring! Regardless, this language lesson is perfect for ESL students or anyone looking to improve their English pronunciation skills. ...