Convincing a child to memorize vocab words is a tiresome task for parents. What if we let them learn English words in a music-rich environment? Research shows that students learn words faster through music and have 90% retention than traditional rote memory study materials.

Vocab Tunes—an online learning platform—presents a musical way of learning different root words while grooving to its 21 select songs. Composed with extensive study and research, these educative songs will definitely prove instrumental in letting your kids understand the pattern of word formation and discover infinite words thereby enhancing their word bank.

Let’s tune in to one of the Vocab Tunes’ song ‘Look At These Roots’ to speculate upon thousands of new words based on it. This selected song consists of Latin root ‘spec’ which means to ‘see’. Before you start forming new words, it is necessary to first introspect the meaning of the root as knowledge of roots assists your little champs in finding out different words easily. Read more →

Importance of learning English grammar is something that you cannot ignore if you want to gain expertise in the language. While reading out a paragraph from the text book, your teachers must have asked you to write down the difficult words and search for the meaning latter.

You surely obey your teachers and follow what they said. However, while writing down all the new words and meanings, have you ever thought of paying attention to the origin of the words such as, grammar and paragraph?

Like numerous other words in English both the words grammar and paragraph have been coined from the ancient Greek vocabulary. Greek words ‘Graphein’, and ‘Gramma’, which mean ‘to write or something written’, are the origin of the words graph and gram. The science that teaches principles of language is referred to as grammar and a distinct section of a piece of writing is called paragraph. Let’s begin this ‘written’ discourse now. Read more →