Tips to improve your English spelling

For students learning English as a second language, spelling correctly is hard to master because for every spelling rule there are so many exceptions! Even native speakers have trouble writing words correctly!

If you are trying to improve your spelling, here is an interesting post:

100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English

Tips to improve your English grammar

As a teacher of English to mainly Portuguese students, I naturally come across grammar mistakes in written work every day. 
Now that I've been reading a lot on the Internet, I have seen recurring mistakes there, too. Here are a few:

• your/you're
• its/it's
• there/their/they're
• affect/effect

These are very common and probably due to the author being in a rush because the differences between them are quite easy to understand.

If you realise that you could be making these mistakes, I suggest you read 5 common mistakes that make you look dumb, which has good, clear explanations.

If English is not your mother tongue and you're serious about improving it, consider trying my online lessons and contact me.

Improve your communication skills

Taking classes at a Language School is the most common way to learn a foreign language. However, you may have difficulty in getting to those classes or their schedule may not fit in with yours or the lessons may not be suited to your particular needs.

With my online lessons you will learn with a native speaker and have one-to-one lessons tailored to your needs, wherever you are and at times convenient to you. I teach British English and European Portuguese online, using free video-conferencing software, such as Skype. 


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