A free lesson on American Word Stress

Are you feeling stressed learning word stress? Then, probably this video will provide a little help. In English language, words have their own pronunciation. And learning "stressed syllables" is really a must in order to speak proper English.

In this video, you can learn how to pronounce and you'll find some tricks on recognizing the stressed words. However, you may need to prepare a dictionary, so you can check the words while learning. Have fun learning American English!

Funny airline English translation mistakes

Mistakes of translation from a language into English can always appear. Sometimes the translation may cause awkward, funny or even danger to people. I remember when I was a child, my cousin told me story about a Japanese entering a room. The Japanese was walking in front of an English speaker. And the English man say "freeze" from the Japanese's back. But he thought that the English man said "please" to invite him to enter the room. You should know what happen to the Japanese next. You might ask me whether it's a true story or not. I don't know, either. But such misheard and misunderstood phrase can be very dangerous.

Besides, dangerous translations of misunderstood situation, there are also translations that cause a lot of laughters when you read. Usually they are notice in public places. Here, I found a link to those funny translations. Read carefully, and you'll find them very funny.

Funny thing about the word "male"

What's funny about the word "male"? You probably think of the definition of the word "male" or you may think of the character or manner of those males. But when you are learning a language, you may also find something funny usually in the translation. For example the word "male". 

What's funny about it? Well, I'm going to let you find out by yourself. Click here to go to Google Translate. Then, Choose Italian to English. Type in "male" and click Translate. What appears then? Now, you know why the "word" male is funny in Italian.