Los Angeles English

Hi! We are offering free online English class every Thursday at 6:30pm! Join our Facebook Group and you will receive further updates! https://www.facebook.com/groups/3370504852964425/

We've redesigned our website! If you have any friends, family, or neighbors who could benefit from free English classes in the LA area, have them check out our site and make use of this great resource :) https://www.losangelesenglish.org

In case you haven't heard, our Westwood location has recently switched their class times to Wednesday from 2:00-3:00pm and Saturday from 11:00am-12:00pm. If you're in the area, come check it out! Check out www.losangelesenglish.org/locations to see all of our different classes!

Good morning and happy Lunar New Year! As you might have heard, our Koreatown location has heard your feedback and has updated some of their class times. Check out losangelesenglish.org/locations for the new times. The Koreatown location is also offering a pronunciation class today at 4:30pm. Please come earlier that you can prepare for the class :) . . :)... 430 . 5

Hey everyone, Spanish classes are being offered again at Los Angeles English at the Koreatown location. For more information on times and contact info, visit our website at http://www.losangelesenglish.org/locations/.

Actor Dennis Christen will be joining LAE as a Korean teacher! His classes focus on English pronunciation and start Tuesday June 13th from 6 to 7:30 pm at 1209 S. Manhattan Place Los Angeles, CA.

We are launching a new class for Russian speakers who want to learn English!

For those looking to speak or understand the English language better -- we're still holding classes throughout Greater Los Angeles area for Farsi, Korean, and Chinese. And yes, classes really are FREE because our program is supported by volunteers. Here are a few tips for Farsi speakers learning English: http://www.losangelesenglish.org/blog/tips-farsi-students/

Sometimes, millions of dollars depends on punctuation! We recommend using the Oxford comma.

No native English speaker will say "the green great dragon": Many native English speakers don't explicitly know that there is a guideline for the order of adjectives. Instead, they learned the order through experience and conversations. As Mark Forsyth explains, the order must be: opinion-size-age-shape-color-origin-material-purpose... "If you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac", he warns in the extract. "It's an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out. And as size comes before color, green great dragons can't exist." For example, "a lovely, thick, black coat" will sound much more natural to a native speaker than "a black, thick, lovely coat". Keep this in mind when using multiple adjectives to describe a noun!

Homonyms and homophones can be a particularly confusing aspect of English. One famous example is the sentence: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" Can you understand what this means?

One of the tricky things about conversational English is emphasis. The way that certain words are stressed in a sentence can actually change the meaning of what's being said! For example, "I never said she stole my money" can have 7 different meanings depending on which word is emphasized. Can you tell the differences between them?

Happy Holidays, everyone! We're looking forward to a great new year at Los Angeles English!