Hi Reader,This is Daria with updates from Smart English Learning online school. If you don't want to hear from me anymore, you can unsubscribe here.I've just published a new post on our blog. It's English listening practice for one of the most common spoken structures: be going to. Read it and practise here >>You might have learnt this sentence structure a long time ago, but can you hear and understand it in other people's speech? It has tricky pronunciation and is reduced a lot in everyday...

Hi Reader,This is Daria with updates from Smart English Learning online school. If you don't want to hear from me anymore, you can unsubscribe here.How can you remember grammar rules and patterns more easily? I hear sometimes during the lesson, ‘Well, when you explain it, it’s clear. But once the lesson is over, I can’t figure out HOW to say it correctly in my everyday communication’. Learning rules or patterns is a logical process - and it’s great when you understand them. But when you need...

Hi Reader,This is Daria with updates from Smart English Learning online school. If you don't want to hear from me anymore, you can unsubscribe here.Why is it easy to understand your English teacher or TV presenters, but not native speakers in everyday communication?The real-life English speech might seem messy: the words are connected a lot of words are not pronounced some sounds are dropped And of course, a lot of words sound different from their written form.While teachers, some actors, and...