Hey ABA family! We know, you’ve always wondered about the origin of the English language. Well, wonder no more! Today we’re going to take a walk down memory lane and see what factors influenced the ...
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10 Animal inspired English idioms
What’s new, everybody? At ABA we are all great and have been working hard to make sure you have as much material as you can to continuously improve your English. As we all know, the ...
Read More »Nature idioms in English
Good morning everyone! So, as we all know, English is a rich language which is full of idiomatic expressions. These are sentences that have a specific meaning which cannot be translated literally to other languages. ...
Read More »American and Canadian English Differences
As we all know, English has an array of accents and dialects that make it a very rich language to learn. There are times however when accents can seem so similar to an untrained ear ...
Read More »How to speak like a South African
Hello ABA friends! Have you heard about South Africa? No, not the south of Africa, South Africa, a country located at the very southern tip of the continent. Well, there are about 5 million people ...
Read More »5 Places you wouldn’t believe speak English
What’s up everyone? If we asked you to say a country where English is widely spoken, you would most likely say “Great Britain” or “The United States”, but there are many more countries in the ...
Read More »Apostrophes and Possessive Pronouns
This post originally appeared on the Magoosh TOEFL blog. Today we will look at the way apostrophes are used with possessive pronouns… or rather how they aren’t used, in most cases. For the most common ...
Read More »The most used acronyms on the internet
Hey everyone! How are you? According to official statistics, right now there are approximately 3.5 billion internet users in the world, almost half of the world’s population. With the internet comes social media and mobile ...
Read More »How to understand an Irish person
Hey everyone! How is your English coming along? Do you understand most accents? What about the Irish one? Well, in actual fact, Ireland has a variation of accents like most English speaking countries, but the ...
Read More »The present simple in English
What’s new everybody? It’s that fun time to learn about English grammar again and everyone at ABA knows you all love to learn. Today’s post is very important as it will teach you about the ...
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