Mums' learning English blog
Learning tips, advice, grammar points and more to help you feel more confident with English
What to teach your children when you teach them English
You've decided that you want to teach your children English, and use more English at home. But what will you actually teach them? Here are 3 things to teach, and 3 things you don't need to bother with 1. Do teach with actions As babies learning language the first...
How to raise bilingual children
How do you raise bilingual children? If you want your children to become bilingual, in English and your language you will have to work at it. Relying just on English lessons is not enough to achieve fluency, so you will have to do some work at home too. Here are four...
The path to English fluency
What are the steps to English fluency? The road to fluent English might look like climbing a mountain to you. It might look like a range of mountains, not just one, as soon as you conquer one part of English, something else emerges through the mist and you realise...
Teaching your children English pronunciation
If you are teaching your children English at home you might wonder about the best way to teach pronunciation. Will your children pick up your accent? Will they sound like a native speaker or not? How will they learn 'th' sounds and how to speak clearly? Here are 6...
Creating your English-speaking home
Do you want to speak more English with your children at home? It might seem like a huge task, maybe even scary too. I live in Japan, with my two children, and we've created an English speaking home here. Here are 6 tips to use more English at home. Make it fun...
Women in Language 2022
Women in Language is back for 2022 If you've never heard about this event, it's one of the biggest online events in the world of languages. It's inspiring, motivating, interesting and fun. The event takes place over 3 days and is all online and is open to anyone in...
What I’ve learnt from teaching online
Teaching online lessons in the past two years has been a big learning curve for me, like the rest of the world. I've been running Mums' English Circle for more than two years and had members from 9 different countries. Here are five qualities MEC members have brought...
Things your (British) parents might say to you
I don't know if it's just British parents that have a set phrase book, but these saying are well known in British homes up and down the UK. They mix a sense of humour and sarcasm to tell children to do things, things that parents around the world often have to say and...
Stop wasting time on ‘th’ pronunciation
Did you use to spend hours in English lessons trying to get the pronunciation of 'th' correct? Did you get it right? Do you still get it right every time? These two small letters cause a lot of headaches for English learners. What's more, there are two ways to...
The story of Mums’ English Circle
Why did I start Mums' English Circle, and where did the idea come from? Read on for the full story... Before... I've been an English teacher for over 12 years now. I used to work in London in public relations, and while I enjoyed that it was not something I wanted to...