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You need to learn only 550 words to know 94% of Conversational English. Learn at least 2 of the words Every day. English has about 450 grammar rules but you should concentrate on [High frequency Grammar]
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Focus on 3 Verb Types that are Super important
1. Present simple – He eats
2. Past Simple – He ate
3. Present perfect – He has eaten
Present Simple:
- Form: Base form of the verb.
- Usage:
- For habitual actions or general truths.
- In statements that are always true.
- Example:
- She reads books every night.
WORDS [VOCABULARY] - In English there are only 8 types of words:
- Nouns
- Pronouns
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Verbs
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions
- Articles
FOUNDER: JEREMIAH MWESIGWA.
I’m Jeremiah from Uganda a country that has over 54 languages with English as the official language. We learn English from childhood from home and at school. My love for learning languages inspired me to come up with a simplified work book to Master English Language with Ease. As a person who grew up learning English, I understand the weight of what it takes to learn a foreign language and the challenges involved. Now native speakers are the best for speaking practice but not learning, and learning is the key to speaking, after you have learnt the language principles and rules. I believe learning English from a non-native speaker is better than learning from the native here is why, non natives who just learnt to become fluent know the burden and what it takes more than the person who was just born with in the language community and its born.
550 words to learn
You need to learn only 550 words to know 94% of Conversational English. Learn at least 2 of the words Every day. English has about 450 grammar rules but you should concentrate on [High frequency Grammar]
| Learn these high frequency words to become conversationally fluent in English. | ||||
| issue | know | late | system | process |
| change | go | read | plan | answer |
| bit | get | house | side | stand |
| different | say | high | buy | agree |
| great | think | kid | far | mind |
| same | like | speak | word | cause |
| another | people | family | close | game |
| show | see | month | set | policy |
| man | thing | group | build | clear |
| number | make | bad | guy | moment |
| world | time | important | real | music |
| next | want | few | nice | grow |
| government | mean | turn | stuff | situation |
| school | year | become | business | election |
| place | good | understand | minute | across |
| state | take | night | join | military |
| money | look | name | student | wait |
| end | talk | remember | hope | experience |
| life | use | program | line | power |
| help | call | begin | pretty | walk |
| play | give | deal | person | face |
| interest | day | company | news | less |
| fact | kind | idea | public | sound |
| keep | tell | term | war | water |
| report | need | hour | win | cut |
| live | try | whole | lose | true |
| home | put | early | political | decide |
| leave | sort | hard | reason | kill |
| course | last | love | spend | order |
| write | even | test | young | service |
| woman | let | continue | half | involve |
| child | little | example | open | suppose |
| every | today | send | car | leader |
| president | new | stop | care | health |
| own | many | couple | support | parent |
| case | thank | community | sit | cost |
| meet | question | guess | black | phone |
| book | start | small | city | price |
| move | point | concern | laughter | official |
| run | happen | stay | least | allow |
| story | week | force | hold | decision |
| pay | hear | office | sense | study |
| believe | problem | room | member | drive |
| bring | part | fall | morning | team |
| job | laugh | wrong | hand | view |
| old | ask | sell | friend | fight |
| seem | long | follow | watch | pick |
| market | create | low | security | national |
| lead | movie | head | sing | history |
| campaign | base | past | pound | figure |
girl rate top risk television radio
| air | local | include | table | medium | stage |
| form | raise | break | drop | sport | note |
| please | tomorrow | law | politics | affect | single |
| town | white | record | toward | benefit | cell |
| fire | dollar | nation | amount | release | attention |
| debate | train | expect | fund | foot | accept |
| tonight | film | matter | industry | worker | prepare |
| front | economic | information | suggest | troop | interview |
| result | difference | listen | foreign | funny | fast |
| paper | often | learn | doctor | financial | tape |
| class | candidate | party | develop | heart | product |
| full | pass | large | song | organization | society |
| conversation | food | level | international | near | field |
| chance | general | certain | research | serious | key |
| item | drug | easy | fine | produce | mile |
| short | provide | die | return | crisis | detail |
| administration | eat | control | rest | poll | board |
| light | police | difficult | individual | pressure | fun |
| language | attack | former | center | card | hospital |
| teach | major | middle | special | baby | series |
| death | sign | bear | act | eye | drink |
| effort | sorry | push | finish | player | voice |
| picture | consider | billion | choice | agreement | claim |
| offer | possible | explain | voter | page | science |
| bill | rule | surprise | college | dad | judge |
| address | strong | wife | education | stick | color |
| effect | economy | project | tax | choose | husband |
| focus | worry | travel | weapon | breath | private |
| add | hit | trade | computer | speech | wonderful |
| road | particular | serve | message | statement | dog |
| teacher | charge | draw | realize | credit | depend |
| comment | mother | ground | relationship | personal | rise |
| share | several | wear | discussion | throw | tough |
| forward | type | oil | ready | enjoy | region |
| happy | yesterday | station | reach | budget | staff |
| door | cover | forget | trouble | character | patient |
| opportunity | increase | response | body | evidence | final |
| free | wonder | remain | land | weather | measure |
| boy | check | letter | press | catch | fair |
| visit | race | miss | event | standard | violence |
| father | age | director | strike | appear | energy |
| action | court | describe | huge | shoot | trial |
| street | human | value | present | technology | approach |
| save | piece | period | challenge | presidential | season |
| carry | step | weekend | pull | stock | summer |
| federal | future | peace | space | receive | development |
| list | mention | committee | crime | social | imagine |
| bank | site | church | discuss | authority | recent |
| role | position | unintelligible | shop | son | main |
Hack #1: Don’t always pronounce the TH The words ‘clothes’ and ‘months’ are commonly pronounced without the TH sound.
● Clothes: Instead of klowthz /kloʊðz/,
say klowz /kloʊz/.
● Months: Instead of munths /mʌnθs/,
say muns/mʌns/.
Practice these pronunciations in sentences:
● I need to wash my clothes.
● She bought new clothes for the party.
● He folded his clothes neatly.
● The clothes are hanging in the closet.
● Her birthday is in a few months.
● We’ve known each other for months now.
● The summer months here are usually hot.
● It’ll take several months to complete the project.
Hack #2: Don’t stick your tongue out fully for the TH in function words When using function words such as ‘the’, ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘these’, ‘those’, and ‘them’, don’t stick your tongue out for the TH. Instead, place the tip of your tongue lightly on the back of your teeth, as if you’re pronouncing a D sound on your teeth.
Practice these function words in sentences:
● I don’t think this cake is the right cake for him.
● I’ve been thinking about them ever since I was at the party.
● I didn’t think that movie was really funny.
● Do you know who planted the flowers in that garden?
● Do people live in these houses?
● Who are these people? Do you know them?
● Those cookies smell amazing.
Hack #3:
Drop the T/D sound between consonants in connected speech
The T or D sounds are often dropped when they are at the end of a word
in between two consonant sounds. For example:
● Instead of ‘just saying’, say: jus-saying
● Instead of ‘best thing’, say: bes-thing
● Instead of ‘stand with’, say: stan-with
● Instead of ‘next person’, say: neks-person
Practice these pronunciations in sentences:
● I’m just saying that you could have helped them.
● It’s the best thing that ever happened.
● Let us stand with one another, united.
● It’s not the most common place to go on a first date.
● My next door neighbor has 9 cats.
● I was exhausted but I kept going.
Hack #4: Drop the H sound in unstressed pronouns Unstressed pronouns are usually reduced in English. When an unstressed pronoun starts with an H sound, speakers often don’t pronounce it. Therefore, words like ‘her’, ‘him’, ‘hers’, and ‘his’ are pronounced ‘er, ‘im, ‘erz, ‘iz.
Practice these pronunciations in sentences:
● Tell her that she can go.
● Bring her along.
● Can you get him his bag?
● Does his brother know him?
● Everyone wants to have a smile like hers.
Hack #5:
You can drop the L sound in some words
The words ‘always’, ‘already’, and ‘alright’ are commonly pronounced
without the L sound at the end of the first syllable.
● always: Instead of aal-weiz/ɑlweɪz/,
say aa-weiz /ɑweɪz/.
● already: Instead of aal-redi /ɑlɹɛdi/, say aa-redi/ɑɹɛdi/.
● alright: instead of aal-rait /ɑlɹaɪt/,
say aa-rait/ɑɹaɪt/.
Practice these pronunciations in sentences:
● I always knew he was trouble.
● I’ll always love you.
● I already did my homework.
● She’s already there.
● The food was alright.
● Are you feeling alright?
Hack #6:
Don’t always pronounce the soft R
The soft R is an R sound that comes after a vowel, as in the words ‘car’,
‘forth’, ‘fair’, ‘cure’, ‘fear’, and ‘water’. When it appears in an unstressed
syllable, the soft R can sometimes be dropped.
● yesterday: instead of yes-t’r-dei, simply say: yes-tuh-dei.
● particularly: instead of p’r-ti-kyuw-l’r-lee, simply say:
puh-ti-kyuw-luh-lee.
● comfortable: instead of kuhmf-t’r-b’l, simply say:
kuhmf-tuh-b’l.
● for: instead of for, simply say: f’r
Practice these pronunciations in sentences:
● We met yesterday.
● They had a wonderful time yesterday.
● The coffee had a particularly rich aroma.
● I’m not comfortable doing this.
● It’s for them.
● Don’t do it for me.
Hack #7: Reduce and connect words English has several common reductions in connected speech. For example, the reduced form ‘wadaya’, means either ‘what are you’ or ‘what do you’.
Practice this reduction in sentences:
● Wadaya want?
● Wadaya know about it?
● Wadaya mean?
● Wadaya do for a living?
● Wadaya need?
● Wadaya doing?
● Wadaya gonna do?
● Wadaya eating?
● Wadaya working on?
● Wadaya waiting for?
Hack #8:
Connect a consonant to a vowel
When you connect words together, and one word ends in a consonant
and the next begins with a vowel, the consonant of the first word
becomes the beginning of the next word. For example:
● Make it: instead of meik-it, say: mei-kit.
● All over: instead of aal-ow-v’r, say: aa-low-v’r.
● Love her: instead of luhv-h’r, say: luh-v’r.
● I’m only: instead of aim-own-lee, say: ai-mown-lee
Practice connected speech in sentences:
● Come over here.
● Just leave it.
● End it now.
● Let’s just call it a day.
● Would you like some fresh apples?
● I could ask you the same question.
Hack #9:
Don’t pronounce the B in words that end in MB
The letter B in words that end in MB is silent and should not be
pronounced. For example:
● climb: klaim /klaɪm/
● comb: kowm /koʊm/
● lamb: lam /læm/
● bomb: baam /bɑm/
● thumb: thum /θʌm/
Practice these pronunciations in sentences:
● This wall is too high to climb over.
● You need to comb your hair.
● The sheep had only one lamb.
● The bomb went off.
● I hit my thumb so badly.
● That was a dumb mistake.
● He brushed the crumbs off his shirt.
Hack #10:
Don’t pronounce the O in words that begin with WOR
The letter O in words that are spelled with the letter sequence WOR
represents the sound /ɜ/ as in the words ‘stir’, ‘burn’, and ‘learn’. To
pronounce this sound, move directly from the W sound to the R sound.
● work: w’rk /wɜɹk/
● worm: w’rm /wɜɹm/
● world: w’rld /wɜɹld/
● word: w’rd /wɜɹd/
● worse: w’rs /wɜɹs/
● worth: w’rth /wɜɹθ/
Practice these words in sentences:
● I have to go to work early tomorrow.
● She spotted a little worm in the garden.
● He dreams of traveling the world.
● ‘World’ is a difficult word.
● This painting is worth a lot of money.
Hack #11:
Reduce small function words and connect them to neighboring
words
Short, one-syllable function words like ‘or’, ‘and’, and ‘of’ are often
reduced in connected speech, which means that the vowel is reduced
to a schwa /ə/, and sometimes even a consonant or two may be
dropped and not be pronounced. These function words usually link to
the word that comes before or after them. For example:
● and: instead of and /ænd/, try using /ən/
Bread and butter: breadən-butter
● or: instead of or /ɔɹ/, try using ər /əɹ/
Black or white: blackər-white
● of: instead of uhv /ʌv/, try using əv /əv/, or even just /ə/
Couple of weeks: coupləv-weeks, or couplə-weeks
Practice these reductions in sentences:
● There were 10 boys and girls in the yard.
● Apples and oranges don’t taste the same.
● I love rock and roll.
● Our summer camp is suitable for boys or girls of all ages.
● You can have soup or salad.
● They’re out of control.
● He’s kind of nice.