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James Marshall retells the familiar tale in which one of three pigs survives a wolf's attacks by using his head.

My name is Ken Xiao. I didn't speak English when I came to the United States as a young man, but now I can speak English like a native, and I did that in six months. In this course, I will teach you how to speak English like a native speaker. If you have been learning English in classrooms, ask yourself this, “Why don't I speak English like a native?” That's because classrooms are designed for you to learn to read and write, not to speak. In this course, I'll show you, step-by-step, instructions on how to completely get rid of your accent and speak English like a native speaker in six months.

Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondoggle. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. Now, he shares the essentials of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, systems design, and much more, in one comprehensive volume. The Personal MBA distills the most valuable business lessons into simple, memorable mental models that can be applied to real-world challenges.

Grammar! For many of us, the word triggers memories of finger-wagging schoolteachers, and of wrestling with the ambiguous and complicated rules of using formal language. But what is grammar? In fact, it's the integral basis of how we speak and write. As such, a refined awareness of grammar opens a world of possibilities for both your pleasure in the English language and your skill in using it, in both speech and the written word.