Are you guilty of this? You see something interesting on Facebook or in your email, you read it, and then you forget about it… If you’re guilty of this… go on, put your hand up… don’t be shy… I won’t lie. I’m guilty of it. Or I was, at least. I’d wake up and I’d …
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Yesterday I told you about an English lesson I heard on the radio… To cut a long story short… the ‘English lesson’ on the radio was the opposite of helpful. The hosts of the radio show taught useless and uncommon vocabulary and called it ‘advanced English’. I received a few emails in response… One person …
“How can I remember English words easily?” is a question I get asked often. But even when I get asked another question, it usually relates to remembering words and memory. Now, before we get started, let me just say this: Your memory is an incredible tool. Learning how your memory works can make learning English …
Last time we looked at ‘short term memory‘ and why’ focusing’ just isn’t enough. So, just reading or listening to something is not enough to improve your English… In fact, if all you do is listen and read… Then you probably forget a lot of English that you ‘learn’… The end goal of learning English …
Continuing on from yesterday’s lesson… When babies start developing, they crawl before they can walk. Crawling is a slow but safe way to travel. You wouldn’t crawl around as an adult because it takes too long to move around, but as a baby it’s the perfect way to explore the world. You can use this …
I recently got this question from an EFS subscriber: “Hi Sam. Thank you for English For Study. I want learn phrasal verbs so I speak to more people better. How I learn these?” We have this saying in English: “Don’t run before you can walk”. It basically means that you should be able to walk …
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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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 …
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 …
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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