Author: morausky

The first question to ask is what is fluency? Fluency is to speak smoothly without stopping or hesitating  There are 2 parts to fluency; physical and mental and you need to work on both parts in order to improve. The physical part is that your mouth needs to produce and connect English sounds and words […]

Here, you will find five important skills that you can improve to help you achieve this. These are some of the most important skills that you need to learn to speak English at a higher level. If you practise and perfect these skills, then you will start speaking better English.  1. Improve your pace and clarityIf […]

A Better Way To Learn English!If you’re reading this then the chances are that you have wanted to speak English for some time now. Maybe you’ve even participated in classes. You probably need to speak English well for your career. Maybe you want to travel internationally or study abroad. You know that English is an […]

Every day here at Online English Skills we receive lots of questions from English learners. Some of the most frequently asked questions are;How can I learn English faster? Is there a way to learn English quickly? So, I decided to create this blog post around these frequently asked questions. My answer is that there are […]

The English language can be very confusing. Especially if you are learning British English. In Britain, we use a lot of slang. Slang is informal words, phrases and expressions that originate from groups of people or different regions. Slang is more common in conversational English than it is in written English. One of the reasons […]

If you asked any English teacher, what they think is the best ‘authentic’ reading material for you to improve your English, almost all of them would say a newspaper. I would have to agree with them. English newspapers are great. The main reason for this is because newspapers are much more current than textbooks. Textbooks […]

One of the best ways to hear real spoken English and improve your English listening skills is by watching TV series, soaps and films.  If you don’t live in an English-speaking country then this is the best way to hear real English such as; collocations, colloquial expressions, idioms, slang and even regional dialects in real context. […]

One of the things I’m going to experiment with in my language studies is using memory palaces to retain information. What is a Memory Palace? A memory palace is a place you imagine – it could be an actual palace, or a building, or a city – with plenty of distinct locations in it. Then […]

When I was training to become a translator, my language course was a pretty intense program. The pace was fast and I was expected to learn and retain a mountain of information every week, for over a year. My classmates and I all knew that we needed some way to help us retain everything. Our […]

Some people view language learning as this mystical undertaking that only a select few people can do. One of my coworkers used to say that he didn’t have any “natural language talent,” which to him explained why he was having trouble in the German class he took at night. I just don’t buy it. I’ve […]