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English Varieties Have you ever been curious about the accents of people speaking English? When I was a child, I was given the concept of British English and American English, yet I was not clear about it at all. When I grew older, I found that people may pronounce a word in different ways and they are all correct.  After knowing the varieties of Englishes in TESOL education, I realised that it is important to accept all the varieties in this global era and know several commonly seen ones.  Pronunciation of Vocabulary Vocabulary is the base of Enlgish learning and mastering the pronunciation of words will help to build a solid foundation as well. However, in China, most of the English teachers are not native spearkers and what is more annoying is that even with dictionaries, there might be differences between the phonetic alphabet given in dictionary and the pronuciation of people actually speak in real life. For example, the word 'identify', in American English, people usuall...

Journey to the Blog Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog. As a typical procrastinator, I am finishing my first blog very late. 😓 Actually, there is a blog-like platform (but with more other functions) in China people in my age used to use quite often from primary to high schools. Unlike this blog, we did that mainly to pretend to be cool and unusual. So when we were getting mature, we realised how stupid we were and gave up that platform (at least for me). It seems to be a good opportunity to start a real blog here 😂.  Review of David Petrie's Blog In the ICT class last Friday, we were given many blogs to learn and review.  David Petrie's was the one for me and I did find many aspects I like and I can learn from it. First of all, I especially like the way he organised the blog.  Organization and Layout 😊 Personally, I am not the kind of people who like reading a lot, let alone I am not a native English speaker. So a page that is full of words and texts will make...