2025-03-18 Learning English with English Clubs
For many English learners, speaking is the most difficult part of the language to master. To improve your speaking skills, you need to be able to practice with other English…
2025-03-11 Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
Suppose you are listening to a program in English and hear the word “borrow.” You have heard this word many times but forget its meaning. So, you look up the…
2025-03-04 Grow Your Vocabulary by Learning Root Words
English has been called one the most difficult languages for non-native speakers to learn. One reason is that English has so many rules – and almost as many exceptions of…
2025-02-25 Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
On a recent program, we explained that knowing just a few root words in English can help you understand the meaning of hundreds more words. To refresh your memory, a…
2025-02-18 Raise Your English Level with More Vocabulary
Let’s look at two English learners. One knows about 500 words and understands how they are used in a sentence. The other knows about 1,000 words but has some problems…
2025-02-11 Teachers Use Games for More Enjoyable Learning
Wordle has become one of the most popular online games in the United States since it came out last October. Players get six chances to guess and learn a five-letter…
2025-02-04 How to Write a Good Email
Email is one of the most important ways through which we communicate. It has become part of most everyone’s day-to-day life. Writing a good email can mean the difference between…
2025-01-28 Scientists with Disabilities Seek Changes to Improve their Work
Disabled researchers often face barriers while carrying out their work. So some scientists with disabilities are seeking to increase attention about the problem and come up with workable solutions. Anita…
2025-01-21 Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
Sherlock Holmes is an imaginary private detective created by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle in the late 1880s. Doyle’s stories about the detective have been turned into movies and television…
2025-01-14 Students with Disabilities Praise Assistive Technology Using AI
Assistive technology involves special equipment and computer software that is meant to help people with disabilities. The latest assistive technology is being powered by artificial intelligence (AI), which might help…
2025-01-07 Learn New Skills with Microcredentials
In today’s workplace, what you learned in the usual college courses may not be very useful later in life. For example, in the field of information technology, workers might never…
2024-12-31 Start New Year by Setting Reasonable Learning Goals
In the Education Tips series, education experts in the United States give you ideas about how you can improve your English skills. This week, Eli Hinkel, a professor at Seattle…
2024-12-17 In Uganda, Cost of Attending School Keeps Children Home
The World Bank said last year that 54 percent of adults in Africa south of the Sahara Desert ranked the issue of paying school costs higher than medical or other…
2024-12-10 Learning How to Ask Questions
In the Education Tips series, education experts in the United States give you tips about how to improve your English skills. This week, Suzanne Meyer, the assistant director at the…
2024-12-03 Tips for Better Writing
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Today we continue our series of expert suggestions for academic writing. Our guest is Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, assistant professor of the Practice…