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  • What is the best way to learn English…fast?

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    Not a single day goes by without hearing this question “What is the best way to learn English…fast?”. Since you’re in such a hurry, I’ll indulge you!

  • How Intensive Listening Does Wonders For English Learning

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    Ever since I finished my TESOL degree and started teaching, my top obsession has been “how could I somehow enable the memory of an adult English learner to achieve what a child’s does. How could I somehow speed up the human processor, that is the brain, so that it could respond to the sounds…

  • 7 spelling-pronunciation rules for vowels

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    English spelling is messy, chaotic and can be one of the biggest and worst nightmares for English learners. It affects your pronunciation, and therefore writing and speaking. Find out how and why!

  • How to improve your English grammar and reading skills

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    It’s certainly not by learning the rules of grammar as you would learn the rules of physics, but rather by….well…reading. Yes, it’s that simple, reading everything and anything you can get your hands on. It would help a great deal if you could find something you are really crazy or obsessed about. 20 years…

  • Hello world!

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    Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

  • How To Master English Pronunciation

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    Thoughts on English Pronunciation I must have written tens of articles about English pronunciation but I never run out of ideas or other angles to view this topic from. Pronunciation, for the majority of learners, is what they study when having problems being understood. On the other hand, for some, it essentially has to…

  • Listen to speak, read to write

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    That is my advice to learners of English as a second or foreign language. That is also my advice to English schools and ESL teachers responsible for creating ESL programs, curricula and textbooks. Just as it says in the title, to improve your speaking, you’ve got to start with listening, and to improve your…

  • Why did Robin Williams end his life?

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    They all said it’s depression. Yes, true, but why was he depressed?. Why would a person like HIM, who had what HE had, be depressed and then end up hanging himself with a belt? As I switched myself onto the “reflective mode”, here’s why I think the great actor chose to put himself to…

  • Mr Putin and his Russian accent in English

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    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqbsZvTz9Q4?list=UU4VOhRizRghGOB1RKPf0bWQ&w=560&h=315]

  • Improving English: None for you without review

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    The title of this article says it all. So why is review such an important part of the learning process and improving English? Well, just look at the first two letters of the word “review”, what have you got? That’s right. “Re”. “Re” also happens to be the first two letters of the word…