There were days when Laura Baldwin used to sit down to practice her English with the help of a computer. As the online tutorial droned on, she would feel her attention start to wane and her confidence ...

It’s normal to feel nervous when starting a conversation in English. You may know the words, but speaking them can be tough. You might be afraid of embarrassment or being misunderstood. This happens ...

As a greeting, the phrase "How do you do?" has somewhat fallen out of favour in recent years. Now a social anthropologist has called for a campaign to bring it back, arguing the English have not known ...