Accents and their "fun"

Accents are really complicated when it comes to language learning. If you get used to listening to Received Pronounciation (RP English) only, then, you are very likely to struggle with the rest of English accents: local, national or international. Yes, that's where the "fun" lies....
American vs British English
Australian vs American and British
Indian English Accents
Canadian Accents
British Accent deserves a post on its own, due to the diffentent accents, slang and interesting bits and pieces it has to offer :)

The Roman Invasion of Britain

I just bumped into this hilarious description of how the Romans invaded Britain (newsport style). Fingers crossed, you like it as much as I did. If satisfied with the humour and the accent, keep on watching more Horribe Histories to learn while having fun ;)

-ED pronunciation

More often that not, we struggle to get the pronunciation of regular verbs in the past right. Tricks to it? We need to focus a bit on phonetics to master this area.
If the chart on the left means little to you in terms of actual help, try listening to this -ED pronunciation tutorial. 

Lie or Lay?

In my opinion, with the learning of Lay vs Lie comes one of the biggest challenges in the irregular verb list!!!
This generous teacher gives us a lesson (click here )on how to distinguish between:

• LAY LAID LAID (irr. transitive verb meaning to put something down)

• LIE LAY LAIN    (irr. intransititive verb meaning to recline)                                                      

• LIE LIED LIED (regular verb meaning to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive) also gets by to make things a little bit more complicated...

Watch and learn...

VOA's Learning: Another tool to learn English.

When you click in VOA's Learning English link, you'll be directed to a two-column chart in which you can either
1) select youtube videos with a news-telling format and subtitles available
or, which I think it is the most attractive service,
2) a selection of news articles. So far, nothing special! but wait and see. Once the piece of news is opened, an emerging orange dialogue box will pop out so that you can  work on what you really need regarding the article you have just read in terms of vocabulary, comprehension and listening. Sometimes, it is accessible at the bottom of the page. More than recommendable!
In case you haven't realised, it is AmE, as VOA stands for Voice of America.