Tag «pronunciation»

12 words your students might be mispronouncing

This is an eight-minute video containing thirteen words that students of all levels and nationalities tend to mispronounce. You can use it in class with your late A2, B1 or B2 students. The video is pretty self-explanatory, so you can recommend it for self-study as well. I have not included words with two widely-accepted pronunciations (e.g. …

Strategic competence vs. language acquisition

I have just come back from a 5-day stay in Buenos Aires, which is hands down one of my favorite cities in the world. Despite their not always undeserved reputation for grumpiness, my Portenho friends have always been gracious with my feeble, embarrassing attempts at Spanish.