Want to Learn a Language? Don’t Try So Hard

If at first you don’t succeed, trying again might not help you when it comes to learning languages. by Taboola A new study from MIT shows that trying harder can actually make some aspects of learning a new language more difficult. While researchers have known...

Making Every Word Count

If you’re like me, you’ve wasted time taking online quizzes like the one my friend challenged me to take: Name the 100 most frequently used English words in five minutes. (I got 45.) You could waste all the time you’d like, as Top 100 word lists...

10 MOST DIFFICULT ENGLISH WORDS TO PRONOUNCE

In terms of pronunciation, English is weird. Especially when your mother tongue is a language where (almost) everything is pronounced the way it’s written. Don’t get me wrong here, I love many things about English, but pronunciation isn’t one of them. There are words...

The ten most difficult words in the English language

Choosing the ten most difficult words in the English language is a difficult task, as different people have different opinions about what the ten most difficult words are.  To help me compile my list I asked the B2 Upper Intermediate class at Eurocentres’ Bournemouth...