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by Toya Fabiyi
- Mar 23, 2019
- 1 min
Toyita's Advice Column
Our THIRD featured advice comes from the late great Maya Angelou. Last month we talked about her brilliance and great contribution to societies around the world. This month she is being featured again as she has some very famous words that I believe are appropriate for us to remember if we are going to have a successful English language journey. In our modern day world where the words convenience and easy are a big part of our vocabulary, we find that the habit of complaining
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by Toya Fabiyi
- Mar 15, 2019
- 1 min
Toyita's Advice Column
Our SECOND featured advice comes from Diana Gil. Diana is a brilliant Colombian woman who is an accountant by day and an English language enthusiast by night. If you need help with getting your finances in order, feel free to contact me so that I can put you in contact with her. However, for now she has some valuable 'consejo' for you all. Check it out! "Try to live and interact on a personal level with more American people. That will help you to understand the culture more a
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by Toya Fabiyi
- Mar 9, 2019
- 1 min
Toyita's Advice Column
Learning a language can be one of the most frustrating, difficult, and exhausting things one could ever do. As a successful language learner myself, my journey to learning a second and third language was and is very complex. It is a very rewarding process in the end, but the process has definitely caused me a lot of grief. However, I would not have been able to do it successfully without the countless recommendations I received throughout my language learning journey. As a la
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by Toya Fabiyi
- Jul 22, 2018
- 2 min
Me, Myself, and I is all I got in the end....
Let's start this month's blog post with a simple error correction activity. Find the mistakes in the sentences below: I have a younger sister. She name is Lucy. Lucy is a doctor and he loves helping people. I want to be like she one day. How many mistakes did you find? If you said none, CONGRATULATIONS you have come to the right place. This month's tip is all about pronouns. In the sample sentences above there are 3 mistakes and they all are with the pronouns. A pronoun is a
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