Advice From An English Teacher - January 2017

A vowel is a sound produced with vibration of the vocal folds, and without audible friction in the vocal tract. Thus all vowels are voiced, as they are produced with vibration. Consonants are sounds that are produced with at least partial obstruction of the vocal tract, and may be produced with or without vibration of the vocal folds. Thus, consonants are both voiced and voiceless. A consonant combines with a vowel to form a syllable in speech. The vowel is always the nucleus of the syllable.

Advice From An English Teacher - December 2016

Listen to good speakers of English, and you will improve your spoken English. Read good writers of English, and you will learn to write better. The more you expose yourself to good English, the more you are under its influence, and the more you are likely to imitate it in your own language performance. So exposure to English is the key to success. But exposure should go hand in hand with the red-hot desire to succeed, no matter what the cost.