hi i am a teacher too (part time) though i teach food science & nutrition. I was happy to see that your website is free as i have recommended it to students who may not be in a postion to pay you through any kind of donations but hopefully will wish you all the best in your endeavours. Thank you & hope many people improve their english with your help as i do bellieve it has become the language of the universe
Wishes are also very welcome.
Really? So: I worship your sense of humour, really!
Thank you for all your help my teacher.
This site is cool! While I may be a native speaker of English, I found the common mistakes page very useful.
Thanks everyone. Big cheesy grin from me. 8-D
Hello! I work as a part-time English teacher in Brazil. Yesterday, I was surfing the Web and stumbled across LEO, which, in my opinion, is a very interesting site. It can be a useful manner of learning English as a Second Language, indeed.
Really like this site, it has been very clear and useful. One query though: in the section on superlative adverbs, you give an example phrase "Jill was the best student in the class". Surely "best" here refers to the noun "student, so it is an edjective not an adverb? Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm a bit confused -Ian
Beware cut and paste. 🙂
FROM TEACHER TO A TEACHER have a look to this great site to improve spanish with songs: http://www.morkol.com
Hello,
I really wondered to find out this website. I will really be helpful for me as i am unable to pay any amount at yet but really need to improve my english skills. I really appreciate the owner/teacher of this web site. My best wishes will always be with him/her. (As i am an Asian and unable to guess with the name that Lynne is MR. or MISS)
However i will feel happiness, if can do any thing for this website (by donating in furtre or something else...)
Once again Lynne, Thank you very much!!!
Best of LUCK!
Mohiuddin
Hi Mohiuddin,
Thanks for the nice compliments.
PS - it's Mrs, but you can call me Lynne.
I have been speaking English as a second language since the age of about five. But I have found this site very helpful indeed and have learnt a lot. Thanks for your help and I wish you every success in the future for all your other projects.
Where can I send donations?
Each year I ask people to donate to a charity. This year it's "Medicin Sans Frontier".
A charity of your own choice is fine too.
good site but you,yourself, need to learn how to spell the word separate, it is not spelled sperate. That is a very common mistake, please rectify it.
Yes "seperate" is a very common mistake. In fact out of 66 separates I had 2 seperates, so thanks for pointing that out to me. You see none of us are perfect and I bet you wish you could edit your post. He he.
I am Sanjeev Gaur from India. I'm a part time English Teacher. My friend Nolly told me about your site. It's really a wonderful site for them whom mother tongue is not English and they want to speak. I've told many friends as well as students about this site. I've established an English Club. Its address is English Club, 179, Ramgali-2, Raja Park, Jaipur-302 004 (India) Tel. # 91-141-2613227. Kindly include this information and update your site. With warm regards,
Hi Sanjeev,
Thanks for the nice comments.
A bit more information about when you meet and what you do would be useful.
Hi Lynne, This is Pallavi. I am a software Engg. I am not from COnvent school, so have no power on English. At the time of interview, I practised for english skill in front of a mirror. And now I have the confidense that I can try to speak English. But want to speak fluent English so that no one can point at me as an English illiterate. So beside of work, I daily read chapters from this site. It's really helpful for me. Thank you for sharing your great knowledge with us.
Hi teacher,
I just found out about this website today!! How useful and interesting this website is! I have already forwarded this site to all of my friends who want to improve their English skills! Keep up the good work.
Thanks for all!! =)
I´m 21 years old and I live in Brazil.
I am sure that with your lessons I will learn english with fun and curture, very fast and well! Your page is amazing!!
I started today and already learned a lot of things!!!!
I really must to thanks you! =)
From one language teacher to another.
An interesting site into which must have gone many hours of work. Well done! Perhaps you would be interested in our site, which is also free, and provides a wealth of language learning material? Take a look at Lingua Spectrum
Hi, Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am an Engineer. I live in Tehran. Your site has been very useful for my improvment in english language. Thanks
Hi,
I'd like to echo all the positive feedback about this great site.
I also wanted to point out one little error. On the page http://www.learnenglish.de/basics/nationalities.htm, "the UK" and "the Netherlands" are correctly listed with "the". However, "the USA" also needs the definite article.
Laurence
It does indeed. 😮
Hi Lynne. I teach English in the U.S. I enjoyed taking a look at the comments of your students. I'm going to encourage mine to check out this site. Best wishes to all you learners out there!
Good afternoon. I want to ask a question about English Listening Chat. Can I only listen to the chat or I have to talk something. I want to register but I would be grateful if you send me answer. My email adress is: keri4d@gk2-po.sk THANK YOU AND GOOD SITE
I hope you don't mind if I answer this here. In the iVisit sessions I encourage people to chat with me on Fridays. But each session has an element of speaking - in the reading session I ask people to take a turn reading and in the listening session I ask questions about the text and encourage people to ask me if there's anything they don't understand. That said, if anyone wants to come along and just listen, they are welcome too.
Hi would you explain it to me, which part that I can klik so I can go to the chat room, please thank you
Hi Lynne
You are such a adorable person, God bless you. I'm a mother of two daughters, I have planning to continiou my study, but writing English is so hard,I even to shy to speak eventhough my vocabularies isn't that bad. I live in US for about a year, but English is my second language, I didn't past my essay writing exam, is there any sugggestion for me?
any way this side is really help, but I haven't retake my test.
keep going what you doing, you are one of milion people.
Hello Lynne,
Love your English lessons!!
Do you have an email address?
We are working on a project that you might be interested in.
hello I'm new, I love English but I can't go to school. thanks because i know Im gona learn.
Just a word to say a huge Thank You for this site.
You see, I AM English (well, half English, quarter Scots and quarter Austrian) but the standard of teaching all subjects in England is at an all time low whether it is Maths, foreign languages or even our own language!
It is so bad that I have had to supplement my children's knowledge myself at home.
In trying to learn Scots Gaelic I found that my own knowledge of grammar was insufficient and so had to start brushing up my knowledge.
I wanted to look up a particular point to do with possessives, apostrophes and plurals and Google pointed me to your site which, I have to say, is excellent, very clear and very comprehensive. It answered my question completely.
Strange that I should need a German site to clarify my English but on top of my previous comments I have worked with both German and Dutch people and found their standard of English is far better than many English people.
Again, let me say Thank you very much and keep up the good work.
One other thing though, please please please do not use American slang. I haven't seen any on your site and did notice the correct spelling of 'colourful' but it is a particular hate of mine. They take a copy of our language, change things for no good reason until it doesn't make sense and then try to give it back to us or worse, teach their slang to the rest of the world!
They need to remember that English is the language of English people and whoever else would like to speak it. They can speak however they like but it is not English.
e.g. color should be colour license s/b licence(noun), license(verb), center s/b centre, organization(obselete English) s/b organisation(modern English), and the one I hate most is specialty s/b speciality etc.
Anyway, none of that is your fault so thanks again for your very good site.
I am from India my name is pinky after visiting this site i really want to say . This is toooooooooo good and really i want to appricate who have done this .
Thanks so much pls mentione your email id i like the way this website is design . anybody can learn easily .
LASTLY THANKS SO MUCH
Thanks guys. Your comments are always welcome (especially the nice ones).
Hi Lynne I am an old school Sri Lankan and was fortunate to have my entire education in the English stream. Today I checked out a few sites to help my secretary to improve her English and stumbled across your site. Your blog is not boring and, frankly, your site is fascinating and is easily one of the best I have seen. Congratulations, thanks and goodluck in all your ventures
Jayanthan
Hiiii, teacher, my name is denny. BTW, would you mind if i take those learning english tips and translate it as one of the articles in my campus magazine????i found it very useful tips to share.
and yes i almost forgot, im a campus journalist and my nationality is Indonesia
I've sent you a mail Denny, but for future reference I don't mind if any of the material is used for non-commercial purposes.
I just ask that it is not reproduced on the web, and that full acknowledgment of the source is given.
My name is Jeaneane Peterson,
I, along with my brother have developed a new website called http://www.international-penpal.com. Our mission is to provide a social atmosphere for adults 18-years or older in an international social media webpage. Our intent is to attract customers of all cultures, all nationalities, and all countries to meet, greet and get to know each other on our social website. By providing creative social group outlets, such as blogs, forums, chat-rooms, music, Youtube, articles, groups/clubs, events, photos, their own private pages and other resources we are providing an outlet for people for different cultures to express themselves in a non-critical way. Since, the site is primarily in English, this is a perfect way for students to learn, or improve their English language skills, and to learn about, not only American customs, but cultures, from vast diverse countries throughout the world.
International-penpal is an excellent tool in aiding your students to speak English, or many other languages. The site is a free service to its members; all they have to do is sign-up. It is also a perfect way for people to keep in contact with family and friends all over the globe.
I hope that you will pass on the information, regarding the website, to all of your students. Please visit http://www.international-penpal.com and see for yourself what a great, fresh site this is.
hi, i like the site very much, i wonder if it would be possible to have the american pronunciation as well. thanks peter
On most of the pages if you double click on a word a pop up window will appear giving the definition and American pronunciation. 🙂
hi lynne i love this site, as i am trying to start an english club for non-english speakers, students at the uni i am working in in gaza, i need ideas and your site is full, but i dont know where to start, i need help with obtaining material, please come to the rescue, as you are great with many great ideas. please could you send any suggestions to khadijakuhail@yahoo.co.uk i know you dont want a bombardment of emails, so i will not be a pain i promise and if you dont want me to contact u i understand hope to hear from u soon khadija
I've sent you a mail. I hope it helps.
Hi,
I'm interested in buying a link on your site' leading to a website that I'm promoting. Is this possible - and if it is, who can I contact?
Hi Gilad,
You can contact me via the forum or post your email here and I'll contact you (don't worry it won't appear in the comments). You might want to look at the sponsors and advertisers pages too.
"Do you know a homophone that isn't here? Fill in a form and send it in.
Need more practise? Try this!"
Since I don't see it corrected yet, I am writing to you here in a separate note and not in a filled form to send in a homophone:
practice, practise
with the sentences:
Need more practise? Need more practice? Need to practise more? Need to practice more?
Maybe you haven't noticed it because I had sent it to your HOMOPHONE page. I wonder where one has to write to you about it.
And funnily enough on your page:
Common Mistakes and Confusing Words in English
you list practice vs practise as a one of them.
Sincerely yours,
Dar
Sometimes I just need to be nagged. Actually my main computer has been down for a few weeks, so if you contacted me then, it's sitting waiting for me there. Thanks for letting me know (it was a typo). As I say on my site - we all make mistakes. 🙂
I am a programmer that has been working on a content management system. I would like to use your language lessons as demonstration content.
The portfolio piece would be public and free on the web with full attribution to Learn English Online. I would not use ads or otherwise make money from your content.
In the end I will be releasing my code publicly as well, and of course I will provide it to you with all your imported content for free upon request.
hi
i am a teacher too (part time) though i teach food science & nutrition. I was happy to see that your website is free as i have recommended it to students who may not be in a postion to pay you through any kind of donations but hopefully will wish you all the best in your endeavours.
Thank you & hope many people improve their english with your help as i do bellieve it has become the language of the universe
Wishes are also very welcome.
Really? So: I worship your sense of humour, really!
Thank you for all your help my teacher.
This site is cool! While I may be a native speaker of English, I found the common mistakes page very useful.
Thanks everyone. Big cheesy grin from me. 8-D
Hello!
I work as a part-time English teacher in Brazil. Yesterday, I was surfing the Web and stumbled across LEO, which, in my opinion, is a very interesting site. It can be a useful manner of learning English as a Second Language, indeed.
Really like this site, it has been very clear and useful. One query though: in the section on superlative adverbs, you give an example phrase "Jill was the best student in the class". Surely "best" here refers to the noun "student, so it is an edjective not an adverb? Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm a bit confused
-Ian
Beware cut and paste. 🙂
FROM TEACHER TO A TEACHER
have a look to this great site to improve spanish with songs:
http://www.morkol.com
Hello,
I really wondered to find out this website. I will really be helpful for me as i am unable to pay any amount at yet but really need to improve my english skills. I really appreciate the owner/teacher of this web site. My best wishes will always be with him/her. (As i am an Asian and unable to guess with the name that Lynne is MR. or MISS)
However i will feel happiness, if can do any thing for this website (by donating in furtre or something else...)
Once again Lynne, Thank you very much!!!
Best of LUCK!
Mohiuddin
Hi Mohiuddin,
Thanks for the nice compliments.
PS - it's Mrs, but you can call me Lynne.
I have been speaking English as a second language since the age of about five. But I have found this site very helpful indeed and have learnt a lot.
Thanks for your help and I wish you every success in the future for all your other projects.
Where can I send donations?
Each year I ask people to donate to a charity. This year it's "Medicin Sans Frontier".
A charity of your own choice is fine too.
good site but you,yourself, need to learn how to spell the word separate, it is not spelled sperate. That is a very common mistake, please rectify it.
Yes "seperate" is a very common mistake. In fact out of 66 separates I had 2 seperates, so thanks for pointing that out to me. You see none of us are perfect and I bet you wish you could edit your post. He he.
I am Sanjeev Gaur from India. I'm a part time English Teacher. My friend Nolly told me about your site. It's really a wonderful site for them whom mother tongue is not English and they want to speak. I've told many friends as well as students about this site.
I've established an English Club. Its address is English Club, 179, Ramgali-2, Raja Park, Jaipur-302 004 (India) Tel. # 91-141-2613227. Kindly include this information and update your site.
With warm regards,
Hi Sanjeev,
Thanks for the nice comments.
A bit more information about when you meet and what you do would be useful.
Hi Lynne,
This is Pallavi.
I am a software Engg.
I am not from COnvent school, so have no power on English.
At the time of interview, I practised for english skill in front of a mirror. And now I have the confidense that I can try to speak English. But want to speak fluent English so that no one can point at me as an English illiterate. So beside of work, I daily read chapters from this site. It's really helpful for me.
Thank you for sharing your great knowledge with us.
Hi teacher,
I just found out about this website today!! How useful and interesting this website is!
I have already forwarded this site to all of my friends who want to improve their English skills!
Keep up the good work.
Thanks for all!! =)
I´m 21 years old and I live in Brazil.
I am sure that with your lessons I will learn english with fun and curture, very fast and well!
Your page is amazing!!
I started today and already learned a lot of things!!!!
I really must to thanks you!
=)
From one language teacher to another.
An interesting site into which must have gone many hours of work. Well done! Perhaps you would be interested in our site, which is also free, and provides a wealth of language learning material?
Take a look at Lingua Spectrum
Hi,
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I am an Engineer.
I live in Tehran. Your site has been very useful for my improvment in english language.
Thanks
Hi,
I'd like to echo all the positive feedback about this great site.
I also wanted to point out one little error. On the page http://www.learnenglish.de/basics/nationalities.htm, "the UK" and "the Netherlands" are correctly listed with "the". However, "the USA" also needs the definite article.
Laurence
It does indeed. 😮
Hi Lynne.
I teach English in the U.S. I enjoyed taking a look at the comments of your students. I'm going to encourage mine to check out this site. Best wishes to all you learners out there!
Good afternoon. I want to ask a question about English Listening Chat. Can I only listen to the chat or I have to talk something.
I want to register but I would be grateful if you send me answer. My email adress is: keri4d@gk2-po.sk
THANK YOU AND GOOD SITE
I hope you don't mind if I answer this here. In the iVisit sessions I encourage people to chat with me on Fridays. But each session has an element of speaking - in the reading session I ask people to take a turn reading and in the listening session I ask questions about the text and encourage people to ask me if there's anything they don't understand. That said, if anyone wants to come along and just listen, they are welcome too.
Hi
would you explain it to me, which part that I can klik so I can go to the chat room, please
thank you
Hi Lynne
You are such a adorable person, God bless you.
I'm a mother of two daughters, I have planning to continiou my study, but writing English is so hard,I even to shy to speak eventhough my vocabularies isn't that bad. I live in US for about a year, but English is my second language, I didn't past my essay writing exam, is there any sugggestion for me?
any way this side is really help, but I haven't retake my test.
keep going what you doing, you are one of milion people.
Hello Lynne,
Love your English lessons!!
Do you have an email address?
We are working on a project that you might be interested in.
Thank you for getting back at us,
Tootle pip & auf Wiederschreiben...
Simon & Julia
eagerb@gmail.com
hello I'm new, I love English but I can't go to school. thanks because i know Im gona learn.
Just a word to say a huge Thank You for this site.
You see, I AM English (well, half English, quarter Scots and quarter Austrian) but the standard of teaching all subjects in England is at an all time low whether it is Maths, foreign languages or even our own language!
It is so bad that I have had to supplement my children's knowledge myself at home.
In trying to learn Scots Gaelic I found that my own knowledge of grammar was insufficient and so had to start brushing up my knowledge.
I wanted to look up a particular point to do with possessives, apostrophes and plurals and Google pointed me to your site which, I have to say, is excellent, very clear and very comprehensive. It answered my question completely.
Strange that I should need a German site to clarify my English but on top of my previous comments I have worked with both German and Dutch people and found their standard of English is far better than many English people.
Again, let me say Thank you very much and keep up the good work.
One other thing though, please please please do not use American slang. I haven't seen any on your site and did notice the correct spelling of 'colourful' but it is a particular hate of mine. They take a copy of our language, change things for no good reason until it doesn't make sense and then try to give it back to us or worse, teach their slang to the rest of the world!
They need to remember that English is the language of English people and whoever else would like to speak it. They can speak however they like but it is not English.
e.g. color should be colour license s/b licence(noun), license(verb), center s/b centre, organization(obselete English) s/b organisation(modern English), and the one I hate most is specialty s/b speciality etc.
Anyway, none of that is your fault so thanks again for your very good site.
Rick.Forbes@hotmail.co.uk
Hi
I am from India my name is pinky after visiting this site i really want to say . This is toooooooooo good and really i want to appricate who have done this .
Thanks so much pls mentione your email id i like the way this website is design . anybody can learn easily .
LASTLY THANKS SO MUCH
Thanks guys. Your comments are always welcome (especially the nice ones).
Hi Lynne
I am an old school Sri Lankan and was fortunate to have my entire education in the English stream. Today I checked out a few sites to help my secretary to improve her English and stumbled across your site. Your blog is not boring and, frankly, your site is fascinating and is easily one of the best I have seen. Congratulations, thanks and goodluck in all your ventures
Jayanthan
Hiiii, teacher, my name is denny.
BTW, would you mind if i take those learning english tips and translate it as one of the articles in my campus magazine????i found it very useful tips to share.
please reply me to dennygoalsaver@yahoo.com
and yes i almost forgot, im a campus journalist and my nationality is Indonesia
I've sent you a mail Denny, but for future reference I don't mind if any of the material is used for non-commercial purposes.
I just ask that it is not reproduced on the web, and that full acknowledgment of the source is given.
My name is Jeaneane Peterson,
I, along with my brother have developed a new website called http://www.international-penpal.com. Our mission is to provide a social atmosphere for adults 18-years or older in an international social media webpage. Our intent is to attract customers of all cultures, all nationalities, and all countries to meet, greet and get to know each other on our social website. By providing creative social group outlets, such as blogs, forums, chat-rooms, music, Youtube, articles, groups/clubs, events, photos, their own private pages and other resources we are providing an outlet for people for different cultures to express themselves in a non-critical way. Since, the site is primarily in English, this is a perfect way for students to learn, or improve their English language skills, and to learn about, not only American customs, but cultures, from vast diverse countries throughout the world.
International-penpal is an excellent tool in aiding your students to speak English, or many other languages. The site is a free service to its members; all they have to do is sign-up. It is also a perfect way for people to keep in contact with family and friends all over the globe.
I hope that you will pass on the information, regarding the website, to all of your students. Please visit http://www.international-penpal.com and see for yourself what a great, fresh site this is.
You can email me – Jeaneane Peterson at jraypet@yahoo.com or Michael Walrath at mirath@maine.rr.com for further information.
Sincerely,
Jeaneane Peterson
International-Penpal.com
hi, i like the site very much, i wonder if it would be possible to have the american pronunciation as well. thanks
peter
On most of the pages if you double click on a word a pop up window will appear giving the definition and American pronunciation. 🙂
hi lynne
i love this site, as i am trying to start an english club for non-english speakers, students at the uni i am working in in gaza, i need ideas and your site is full, but i dont know where to start, i need help with obtaining material, please come to the rescue, as you are great with many great ideas. please could you send any suggestions to khadijakuhail@yahoo.co.uk
i know you dont want a bombardment of emails, so i will not be a pain i promise and if you dont want me to contact u i understand
hope to hear from u soon
khadija
I've sent you a mail. I hope it helps.
Hi,
I'm interested in buying a link on your site' leading to a website that I'm promoting.
Is this possible - and if it is, who can I contact?
Hi Gilad,
You can contact me via the forum or post your email here and I'll contact you (don't worry it won't appear in the comments). You might want to look at the sponsors and advertisers pages too.
http://www.learnenglish.de/subspage.htm
http://www.learnenglish.de/freelinks.htm
Practise practice!!
(Pun intended! I do hope you see it!)
Hello Lynne,
I have already drawn your attention twice to the common mistake you have made (or is it just a typo?) in: "Need more practise? Try this"
on your: English Homophones web page
http://www.learnenglish.de/homophones/Homophones.htm
"Do you know a homophone that isn't here? Fill in a form and send it in.
Need more practise? Try this!"
Since I don't see it corrected yet, I am writing to you here in a separate note and not in a filled form to send in a homophone:
practice, practise
with the sentences:
Need more practise?
Need more practice?
Need to practise more?
Need to practice more?
Maybe you haven't noticed it because I had sent it to your HOMOPHONE page. I wonder where one has to write to you about it.
And funnily enough on your page:
Common Mistakes and Confusing Words in English
you list practice vs practise as a one of them.
Sincerely yours,
Dar
Sometimes I just need to be nagged. Actually my main computer has been down for a few weeks, so if you contacted me then, it's sitting waiting for me there. Thanks for letting me know (it was a typo). As I say on my site - we all make mistakes. 🙂
I am a programmer that has been working on a content management system. I would like to use your language lessons as demonstration content.
The portfolio piece would be public and free on the web with full attribution to Learn English Online. I would not use ads or otherwise make money from your content.
In the end I will be releasing my code publicly as well, and of course I will provide it to you with all your imported content for free upon request.
Can I republish your content for these purposes?
- David Valentiate
davidv.ca
Hi David,
That should be fine, as long as there is no commercial use of the material and attribution is given.
Good luck. Let me know if there is anything else you need.
Thanks for permission. I have no commercial intentions.
I'll keep you updated on any progress I make.