The day Resistance took a beating… It’s 15:15 on the 14th January 2020. Resistance, the beast that had clouded my vision and halted my progress lay on the floor, battered and broken. It’s been a while since I wrote to you. That’s my bad. To be honest, the past few months have been quite busy …
If you want to improve your English quickly, you’re not the only one! One of the most common questions I receive is: What’s the fastest way to learn English? (… or some variation of that question) To be honest, this is such a big question. There are many possible ways to learn English and different …
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Organic English? Wut? Think about this? What if there was a way to learn English naturally, like English speaking children do, without all the weird grammatical terms and rules. The only issue is that, we, as adults, like rules. We like knowing what we can and can’t do. Children on the other hand, don’t really …
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English internet slang… You can’t avoid it. If you spend any time surfing the net in English, you’re likely to come across acronyms, abbreviations and slang that people don’t say IRL (in real life)… This can make it hard for you, eager English learner… Because how are you supposed to keep up with every little …
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“How many words should I learn in a week?” This is a question on a lot of minds. Truth is – I’m all about QUALITY over QUANTITY when it comes to words. I’d rather focus on the words that are going to be the most useful… not the words that look good. A good comparison …
Taking control of your English seems like a strange thing to do. But think about it… For most of your English learning life, you have: Learnt what someone else has told you to learn. Done activities that someone else has told you to do. Learnt English when someone else has told you to. Turned to …
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A lot of English learners don’t think about sounding human when they speak English. Let’s face it… When we think about English… we think about words… We think about hours of sitting at a desk with a list of vocabulary and an old textbook.. We think about taking exams and listening to a tape recorder… …
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The first step to learning any language is: passion. If you’re not passionate about the language (or at least interested in the language), you’re going to have a bad time. Case in point… When I was 11 years old, I was told that I HAD to learn German in school. I didn’t have a choice about …
Today’s lesson is a bit geeky… I think I was 9 years old when I first entered the world of Pokémon. I remember my granddad bought me an imported copy of Pokémon Blue (his favourite colour was blue) from the USA. I remember started the game on my old, gray original GameBoy and becoming instantly …
It’s 4:58pm. You’re about to finish work for the day. You’ve been thinking about going home, putting your feet up and relaxing all day. You can’t wait to get home, take your shoes off and relax. But then something terrible happens… … Your co-worker/friend asks you a question. They say: “Do you want to go …
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