Intonation 语调 This week's question comes from Ricky in Xi'an who wants to know more about intonation in English. As he points out, intonation is different from pronunciation , and is an important part of learning to speak like a native speaker ....
Choose / Select 英语里关于选的单词 The words 'choose' and 'select' are both very common verbs with nearly the same meaning. However, 'select' has a slightly narrower meaning and is used less frequently than 'choose'. Both words can mean to p...
Choose / Select 英语里关于选的单词 The words 'choose' and 'select' are both very common verbs with nearly the same meaning. However, 'select' has a slightly narrower meaning and is used less frequently than 'choose'. Both words can mean to p...
Height身高 This weeks question was sent to us by Jojo from Guangdong saying she had seen sentences with the phrases six foot six and five four in them. They were wondering what this meant and if it was a way to talk about height. Jojo guessed corre...
A Hundred and One / 许多 This weeks question is from Du Min and it is about the meaning and usage of the English idiom a hundred and one things. The idiomatic part of this phrase a hundred and one can be used instead of the words too many or lots o...
Holidays 假日 This weeks question is from Tong Zhang who wants to know how to correctly use the word holiday. This word can be a little confusing as people use it in a lot of different situations. It can take on many meanings. Here are some of the...
Verb+ing 动词+ing This weeks question is from Zhu Jun Jun who wants to know how to use verbs with ing. There are many ways to use the verb+ing but in this weeks programme we focus on how to use verb+ing in the continuous tense . The present partici...
Its and Its / Its 和 Its 的区别 Fei Yang has emailed us with this weeks question. She wants to know the difference between its and its . Its This is two words joined together usually it and is . The apostrophe takes the place of the i in is . Thi...
Most / The Most 关于 Most 的应用 Listen to this week's programme to hear Li and William tackle Wong's question with help from a very special guest. Whether or not we put 'the' before 'most' depends on several things. Both Wong's example sentence...
Rise 和 Raise 的区别 This weeks question comes from a listener who would like to know the difference between the words rise and raise . The main differences between these words are as follows: 1. Transitive vs Intransitive Raise is a transitive v...
