Master English

You can speak and write English more fluently than your mothertongue. For suggestions to improve your vocabulary, pronunciation, spellings, grammar, reading skills, writing techniques, listening comprehension and mastery of spoken English read this blog regularly.   Prof. Bhagwat S. Goyal.

commonly mispronounced words

Here's a list of some commonly mispronounced words:

suggestion, congestion, digestion, combustion

adjective, adjoining, adjournment, adjust,

cleanliness, devotee, benevolence, demolition

I'll discuss these next time

Reading Skills

What is Reading?
*A broader view of the nature of reading  is that it involves the recognition of the important elements of meaning in their essential relations, including accuracy and thoroughness in comprehension.
*When reading is seen as a decoding process , syntactic, semantic and pragmatic knowledge are involved in it..
* Nuttal, after considering definitions of reading in terms of reading aloud or decoding, settles for  the extraction of meaning from written messages.
*Widdowson defines reading as the process of getting  linguistic information carried by linguistic messages via print.
* Perfeti suggests  that reading can be considered  as thinking guided by print, with reading ability as skill at comprehension of  Text.
*Reading is the process of receiving and interpreting  information encoded in language from via the medium of print.

Common Errors in English

One of the basic principles of English grammar is that there should be agreement between subject and verb.A singular subject should be followed by a singular verb, while a plural subject should be followed by a plural verb. For example, 'No news are good news' should be written as 'No news is good news.'.  Similarly,  'His hair are white' should be 'His hair is white.' Other examples will follow.

Non-Verbal Language

Verbal language deals with the spoken or written words, but in non-verbal language we use what is commonly understood as body language. Non-Verbal communication consists of several elements. Some of them are: Kinesics, Paralinguistics, Proxemics,  Chronemics, Haptics, Oculesics, Olfactics etc. The details of these will be given in my next blog. O.K.?

In order to excel in English, learn all the fundamental aspects of communication - speaking, listening, reading and writing. From learning to make an effective speech to writing with an expressive fluency, you master the art of communication with a degree of extraordinary confidence. You should learn about speech as an expression of personality, nervousness as an asset in speaking, importance of voice and delivery methods, controlling voice quality including phonation, pitch, intensity and duration, features of a good voice, need to breathe properly and relaxing, listening to yourself, developing flexibility, articulation for smooth, fluent and pleasant speech, understanding the speech sounds, learning desired and correct pronunciation from dictionary, successful speech being a blend of entertainment and seriousness and using an appropriate style of delivery for your speech. Details will follow in future blogs. Have a great time! -Bhagwat S. Goyal.