Category: Study tips

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 (or capitalization, for those using American spelling) can take a bit of getting used to. Across different languages that use the Roman alphabet ther…

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…

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…

  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…

Today I’d like to explore the hilarity of false friends in English. What’s a false friend in English? It’s a word that sounds like it would be the sam…