Personal Journeys with Gramma

Life adventures, inspiration and insight; shared in articles, advice, personal chats and pictures.

Do You Want a Toilet or a Bath? Learning A New Language Online

  Why learn a new language?  We can all guess that being able to communicate with people from cultures not our own would be helpful.  “Where is the ladies’ room, … Continue reading

May 12, 2014 · Leave a comment

Reading and Writing Those Crazy English Letter Sounds–for People from Here or There

The U.S.A. was created by people from all over the globe and our language is just as mixed up as our population. As a result, we have words we like … Continue reading

April 5, 2014 · Leave a comment

American English Punctuation for Those Who Hate It!

“My only question is how do you use a capital comma?”  Yes, there are many people who are forced to write in English who have no clue what the peculiar … Continue reading

March 15, 2014 · Leave a comment

The Music of the Words

Do you hear the music of language in the books you read?  My job dragged me away from literature to the everyday conversation of nonfiction so consistently in recent years … Continue reading

February 9, 2014 · Leave a comment

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