February 2012
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Watch1 MILLION USERS! Voxy is excited to announce that we have reached 1 million users today! WOW! That’s a lot of people, and the number continues to grow rapidly! We would like to thank our existing users and invite everyone else to register in the app or website to have access to the latest news and features that will help you learn English without even realizing it!
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The Alot is Better than You in Everything →
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THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW HAD NAMES →
Did you know the protuberance below the nose and above the upper lip is called PHILTRUM?
Should these words have remained unnamed or do you feel this significantly changed your whole life. We bet it’s option number 2 :)
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Don’t be rude to old French people!
For many years, researchers have tried to define the exact line that separates language and culture. But two are so fundamentally interrelated that you can’t really have one without the other.
Language can be thought of as a set of rules that facilitates communication; and communication is of course a cornerstone of culture. Culture on the other hand defines many aspects of language, like how...
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Neuroscience and Language: Walking hand-in-hand?
Have you ever wondered whether there is a genetic origin of handedness (preference for one hand over the other in everyday tasks)? Research on handedness, albeit contentious, has accumulated over the years. Recently, scientists at the University of Oxford have gathered enough evidence to identify a novel gene for handedness. Even more astonishing, their research suggests that there is a link...
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To Verbify or Not to Verbify? That is the...
Verbifying, is the phenomena of changing non-verbs into verbs. It pops up everywhere in English! While this is nothing new, and Shakespeare himself has been “caught red-handed” using them in his tragedies, many English Language enthusiasts frown upon the colloquial use of ‘verbified’ words.
So how does Verbification happen and why do “the grammar police” care? A popular example is the search...
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Does alcohol improve speaking skills in another...
Some of you might be astounded by the title of this post and genuinely wondering why such a topic is being discussed. Well… let’s start with how language learners run or should I say sprint when they have to speak in the target language. As a teacher, I have had students with an advanced level of English knowledge that freeze up, sweat buckets and stammer when speaking in English.
What’s so...
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Introducing: Voxy 15 second video lessons!
You know you make me wanna (TOUT!)…kick my heels up and (TOUT!)…throw my hands up and (TOUT!)…throw my head back and (TOUT!)
How excited would you be to see the Voxy team do a jig on the big screen with Little Richard? So excited that you can’t contain yourself? So excited that you’ll have to catapult out of your seat and join us in our more-than-enthusiastic, Voxy-licious dance routine? Is my...
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12 Amazing Things Your Friends Could Do (if they...
Have you ever had those friends who think learning English isn’t really that important? Or even that it’s a waste of time? Have you ever needed to convince someone else that it really is important to learn English, for a huge number of reasons?
Voxy to the rescue! Here’s a list of 12 awesome/ridiculous things your friends could do if they learned English.
1- Go to a nightclub and pretend to be...
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That Doesn’t Sound Right…
Whether you are a native English speaker or not, there are always words that feel… well, weird! Some words always sound or feel awkward to say until you get used to them (if you ever do). No matter what the language is, learners will always feel uncomfortable with certain words. We decided to use this post to categorize and explain some of the words that English-learners often feel are the...
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