Presidential Commas (TEFAL)

The evil of commas: grammatical FAIL. This is a screenshot from 2012 US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s website. In it he appears to be advocating that Americans hunt and shoot their own families. Why? We don’t know yet…


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English Teachers – The Series‏‎ (TEFAL)

English Teachers – the series, is a fictional webseries about the lives of English teachers in a language school in Japan. The first episode aired in September 2010. It is directed and produced by Anthony Gilmore who teaches English part-time at the Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in Japan and […]


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English Pronunciation (TEFAL)

The clip below demonstrates the art of English pronunciation training as practiced by Steve Martin in the Pink Panther. Movie: The Pink Panther BUY/RENT THE MOVIE: https://amzn.to/3jhVP0R CLIP DESCRIPTION: A dialect coach asks Clouseau (Steve Martin) to repeat a simple phrase. FILM DESCRIPTION: The world’s most inept detective returns to […]


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