12 October, 2011
About vs. Of
23 January, 2011
More New Exercises
Congratulations to all those who got free English Toolbox exercises during our Christmas promotion. And we have new exercises on which you can spend your credits! We've created some tests for synonyms, plus influencing vocabulary and word forms. Use our search engine to find them quickly and easily.
20 December, 2010
A Christmas Gift from ET!
We want to thank all of our past and current customers for making 2010 English Toolbox's best year ever! As we begin our 4th year in business, we are offering a special holiday gift to our current customers: 25 free English Toolbox credits! And for anyone who registers between now and 31 December 2010, we are offering a dozen free exercises as well. Make sure you use a correct e-mail address, since registrations will not be accepted otherwise. Again, these 12 free exercises expire in just 12 days, so hurry and click the "Subscribe" button at the upper-right corner of the home page (this is only to create your registration: you will not be billed for any purchase).
12 December, 2010
New Exercises Added
We've added over a dozen new exercises, including how to describe movements and trends in presentations; forming antonyms with prefixes; learning vocabulary through context, etc. As always, each exercise is available in both MS Word and interactive HTML formats.
18 September, 2010
Linguists Who Study Their Own Kids
MIT professor Deb Roy is not wasting an opportunity to gather a massive amount of field data:
He recorded, on video and audio, nearly every waking moment of the first three years of his son's life—not as an exercise in parental vanity, but in the name of science. His goal was to create as complete a picture as possible of how one child learns a language. For his study, "The Human Speechome Project," he embedded 11 cameras and 14 microphones in the ceilings of his home, and set them to record for an average of 12-14 hours a day. Now Roy and his team have begun the enormous task of trying to make sense of the data—all 120,000 hours of it.
21 August, 2010
From Prada to Peru
A Manhattan fashion publicist leaves the bright lights of the big city to spend a year as a TEFL teacher at the foot of a volcano in Peru. His witty blog charts the transition in ways that we're sure most of us can remember/recognize/identify with. Sample passage:
I just wanted a place to finally learn Spanish, to read and to write. Call me fucking crazy, but living at the base of a 20,000 foot mountain that could spray you with molten lava at any moment, in a city built of it's rock and on a land that shakes with earthquakes made me tingle everywhere with excitement.
02 August, 2010
How Language Influences Culture
A fascinating article describes the ways that language actually shapes the way we view the world, both literally and figuratively. Sample quote:
It turns out that if you change how people talk, that changes how they think. If people learn another language, they inadvertently also learn a new way of looking at the world. When bilingual people switch from one language to another, they start thinking differently, too.
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