If you think about it, learning English is mostly about vocabulary: learning and using words. It sounds simple, but ‘learning and using words’ actually creates a lot of questions. Questions such as: What’s the best way to learn words? How many words should you learn? Which words should you learn? Why can’t I remember words I […]
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Everyone and their dog watches Game of Thrones, and for good reason: it’s one of the best TV shows ever created (my personal opinion, of course). Most people see it as an adult version of Lord of the Rings or a dramatised version medieval Britain. But beyond the nudity, violence and difficult scenes, there are
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We’ve all experienced anxiety while speaking. We try to be confident, but it doesn’t always work. It goes like this: You’re talking to someone and you feel like your words are stuck. Your words just won’t come out. You start to panic and get stressed. So you use simpler phrases and words (things that you learned
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Learning a new language opens up a new world of possibilities. There are millions of new people who you can interact with and thousands of new opportunities and jobs that you can pursue. It’s probably the reason why you started learning English in the first place. But the truth is a language isn’t just a
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If you’re like many English learners, you want to learn English faster. Usually, my stance is “enjoy the process, eager student”, BUT there are several ways that you can speed up your learning. And these ‘tricks’ are not rocket science. They will not take hours for you to use, BUT they will have a nice
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When you’re learning English it’s easy to get distracted by the huge amount of information available on the internet. There’s so much information that it can actually be quite difficult to figure out what’s true and what’s a myth. A myth is something that people believe is true, but really it isn’t. For example, one
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Usually students don’t ask how to write effective English paragraphs. That’s because it’s usually too late when they realise they need help writing a good paragraph (such as 1am the night before a deadline). The truth is we don’t often realise we need help until it’s too late. We don’t look for the prevention, we
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Moving to another country to study is a stressful experience even for the most prepared students. One of the reasons for this is conversations with native English speakers. I recently did some research on international students at a university in the UK. I wanted to find out what they were really worried about when they
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Isn’t the internet awesome? I remember back when I was a kid and we got our first family computer (in 1995) that came with some free information CDs. I absolutely loved all of them: Dangerous Creatures, Musical Instruments, Ancient Lands and Encarta 95. I spent hours and hours just reading and learning from those CDs.
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Can you work out what this article is going to talk about? Any ideas…? That’s right: phrasal verbs, the popular language item which confuses many English learners. Why are phrasal verbs confusing? Well, take a look at the question above – do you understand what “work out” means? It could mean “to exercise”, “to end
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