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The Biblioburro

I would like to introduce you to Luis Soriano, the founder of Biblioburro. A native of Colombia, he distributes books on the backs of his two "employees", Alfa and Beto

The Schwa: The Most Common English Vowel Sound

The "schwa" sound is the most commonly used vowel sound in English, especially in the American version.   Did you ever wonder why so many English words sound so different from the way they are spelled?  Did you ever hear a word like "the" pronounced in two different ways and tried to understand if there was a rule to use it one way or another?

Practice Your New Language: Trust Native Speakers To Help You Learn

Children possess one quality that adults need when learning a new language: the fearlessness to make a mistake.

This is especially true with very young children, those too young to have their every little mistake criticized and corrected.  When children do something for the first time, they just jump right in without a care.  They don't worry about how they might look or what someone might say about it.  

Adults, however,  are often afraid to try something new in front of other adults.  Why?

The Parts of Speech: Nouns and Verbs

Here is a short description of the two most important and basic parts of speech of the English language, Nouns and Verbs:

How to Say It..."-ed"

The Sound of the "-ed" Ending of the Past Tense of Regular Verbs:

Is it difficult to remember how to say words like ''played'' or "liked" or ''harmed"?  Don't feel bad; it is sometimes difficult for native English speaking children to remember.  Do you want some rules which might make it easier to know when the sound of "-ed" changes?