How to pronounce /-ed/ at the end of a Verb

English is a crazy language! For example, sometimes DIFFERENT letters make the SAME sounds, like: “Daisy is in great shape.” But at other times, the SAME letters make DIFFERENT sounds, like: “Eat bread & steak.” So it is with the /-ed/ at...
Heritage vs. Inheritance? 遗产 / 遺產

Heritage vs. Inheritance? 遗产 / 遺產

Ask the Teacher: Heritage vs Inheritance? 遗产 vs 遺產? In a recent bonus 1 on 1 class, Jack Lee, who is one of our long-term star students and a high school senior in Beijing, asked his DreyerCoaching.com star teacher Mr. Woodson: “I see that the Chinese meaning of these...
Small World!

Small World!

As a child, I remember riding the popular “It’s a Small World” ride at Disney World in Florida. A common English saying is “It’s a small world,” when we hear a story about people far away having some chance encounter or seeming...
Get

Get

I’d like to dedicate this blog post to my outstanding student, Joy Li, in Shenzhen, China, who has visited us in Virginia before for a summer and recently asked this great question! While teaching a basic Step 1 English class just now, we were practicing the...

Comfortable Phenomenon?

Recently I was teaching an online student from Beijing, China, and she explained she had learned from her outstanding DreyerCoaching.com Team teacher that the word “phenomenon” is not used very often in English, and that it refers to some occurrence that...
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