english words: gonna, 'll, em

Hi, today we are gonna talk about one of the differences between written English and spoken English.

When we use the future, in written English we use will and going to.

Example: Alan will go to the school, he is going to meet his friends.

But in spoken English, we say: Alan’ll go to school, he’s gonna meet his friends.

This difference is usually ignored by students who have never learned English with the rights method, they thing that written English and spoken English are the same, but they are completely different and those students are completely wrong!

Another difference is the use of em instead of them.

Example: he talked with them à he talked with’em

When students hear this phrase, they usually don’t understand it, that’s really strange!

That’s why I advice you to learn spoken English and then go to the written English as our children.

So that’s it, see you later!

B.N. JOHN (bnjohnbn@gmail.com)

http://fastest-english.blogspot.com

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listen to english (go on)

What’s up?
Maybe you didn’t understand what are we gonna talk about today, because the title is not really good, but we are talking about the idiom “go on”
So, go on listening to English to improve your speaking skills!
It means, if you want to improve you English speaking, continue to listen to English!
Go on=continue
To speak English, you must learn idioms.
So, our idiom for today is short and very easy too,

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Read what you love

In order to improve your English very fast, you can choose a topic that you enjoy a lot, and read about it in English, for example there are many students who like cars, so what should they do? well, they should find easy articles in English  and they start to read them, they will improve their English at the same time they are enjoying cars and car news....

The only problem they can have, is maybe that they'll find some articles a little bit difficult, that's why I recommend Simple English reading where they understand 90% of the global reading.

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Americans use Idioms



Like everyone else in the world, Americans use a variety of idioms daily.
As mentioned in the previous article, idioms are groups of words where if you look to each single word you will understand nothing.
To speak English better, you should learn idioms because they are very important in English speaking.
While there are millions of American idioms, just hundreds of them are used daily.
So, you need to be more familiar with these hundreds, and all is going to be fine.
English speaking is full of idioms; you need more repetition to learn a lot of them.
If you learn many idioms, you will be powerful, everyone will appreciate you speaking, everyone wants to listen you and you’ll become popular!
Idioms are never taught in English schools, that’s one of ht raisons schools are terrible!
You can’t find English idioms in English schools; you can only find them using real materials like TV…
To help you, I will teach you many idioms through the next articles, and remember: “be patient”
You can see my best article about American Expressions

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