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Are You Lovin’ it? How to Use the Present Continuous
Posted on February 16, 2016
By Emily Stallard Something that learners of English often have difficulty with is when to use the present continuous, also called the present progress…
English phrases learned at school versus real life
Posted on February 9, 2016
When did you start learning English? What English phrases did you learn at school? I started learning Japanese at university. A typical Japanese phrase for beginner…
Why Never to Say “I Don’t Speak English”
Posted on January 19, 2016
By Emily Stallard , Owner and Trainer at Orchid English We have all had experiences when someone says something to us in a language we are learning and we don’t understan…
British Understatement
Posted on January 6, 2016
As you become ‘quite good’ at English, you might have noticed a thing called British understatement. It’s inherent to British culture and can baffle us foreign…
Capitalisation Rules in Business English – Advanced
Posted on December 1, 2015
Hello again! We hope you have read the intermediate rules first from the blog post last week. If not, we recommend going back and reading that first. Here are some more ad…
Capitalisation Rules in Business English – Intermediate
Posted on November 26, 2015
Capitalisation (or capitalization, for those using American spelling) can take a bit of getting used to. Across different languages that use the Roman alphabet ther…
Six Quid or Sick Squid?
Posted on October 5, 2015
By Honami Matsutani, Guest Blogger For those learning the English language, the ability to tell jokes may seem a long way off. From one-liners you might find in Christm…
Coping with Plateaus in Language Learning
Posted on June 16, 2015
By Honami Matsutani, Guest Blogger Some years ago, one of my British friends (a Welsh man to be precise) had been living in Japan for many years and was going through a bad…
What is Conversational English?
Posted on April 13, 2015
By Honami Matsutani, Guest Blogger What is it? I have often wondered where the line should be drawn between so-called “conversational English” and it’s presumed oppo…
How Your Comfort Zone is Limiting Your Language Development
Posted on February 25, 2015
By Emily Stallard, Owner at Orchid English Recently I was speaking with a business contact and friend who is Japanese and who speaks excellent, see-if-y…
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