ESL for Spanish Speakers

It doesn't take long, in a foreign country, for a traveler to encounter (or create) ridiculous, impossible and even life changing events.
Don't forget them - share them!

Yes, share these experiences with friends and family, but don't forget to share your experiences with the world...

If you are intrigued by word histories and the sometimes contradictory usage of common words, do I have a treat for you.

Check out A Way With Words. You can find them at...

Every language has its trips and traps. English, for a variety of reasons, seems to have more than its share. Consider, for example, some extremely common words, phrases and areas of miscommunication. When you are at a meal, for example and you say that something is "hot" do you mean hot as in spicy or hot as in...

Yes, I love the English language. This language is like a persistent linguistic weed - it seem to flourish the more you mangle and mess with it. Thanks to the sheer number of words in the language, we can take words far beyond their intended meanings. In fact we can distort perfectly good words and yank them from their contexts to make entirely new stories, songs and...

One of my favorite characteristics of the English language is how we create, mangle, adapt, distort and just plain make up words. Many of these come from popular movies, celebrities, political figures or economic or cultural changes. "Truthiness" for example, was a word that had to happen. It originally came from...