Practising contractions

Tear and desert ‘Tear’ and ‘desert’ are words that are pronounced differently to indicate their meaning. The noun tear, which is a drop of fluid from the eye, rhymes with the word dear. ‘She shed a tear when her cat died.’ But when we use ‘tear’ as a verb, meaning to rip, it's pr ...  Show more

Gonna and Gotta In informal English conversation, we often use shorter, versions of common word combinations. One of the most common is ‘gonna’ - short for ‘going to’. When we say the words ‘going to’ very quickly, they run together and sound like ‘gonna’. So ‘Are you going to wa ...  Show more

Video Transcript Below: Hello guys, hello boys and girls and welcome back to Robby's Accent Adventure video blog, where we learn to speak like American English speakers. Yes! I'm trying to sound like American currently and I'm putting on my general American pronunciation and in c ...  Show more

In this episode, learn these 10 English phrasal verbs with the word get. See below for the full list. If you want to listen to the episode where we talk about the verb GET, listen to episode 13. Get your free fluency book here: https://www.tofluency.com/5-step-plan/ HERE ARE THE ...  Show more

In this lesson, you're going to learn 10 ways to express your opinion in English. Learn these phrases (and some bonus ones below) as they're really useful. Want them as digital flashcards? Join The To Fluency Program here: https://www.tofluency.com/tfp/ - I couldn’t agree - I cou ...  Show more

In this English lesson, you're going to learn 43 commonly used phrases related to romance. You're going to do this by watching a video of David and Sarah meeting in a hotel bar. Get the definitions here: https://www.tofluency.com/53-english-phrases-romance *** RESOURCES *** Engli ...  Show more