In the Student Center for Belonging and Community, first-generation Bates students mentor their younger peers, providing guidance on everything from academics to internships to social life. Bates is ...

How can you use natural pauses in English? Pauses and the flow of speech are very important for sounding natural when speaking. By pause we mean a complete gap between words, or just a slowing down of ...

The lettter 't' can be pronounced as a /t/ sound at the beginning of words, like 'tin' and 'top', or at the beginning of stressed syllables like 'hotel' and 'cartoon'. It can also be pronounced at the ...