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  • How Intensive Listening Does Wonders For English Learning

    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…

  • How to improve your English grammar and reading skills

    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…

  • Improving English: None for you without review

    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…

  • Learning English or learning about English?

    Learning English, learning about English, “tomEYto” “tomAHto” you might think. Unfortunately, most English learners spend 70% of their time learning about English. They learn about grammar rules, vocabulary, how to write an essay or pass an exam etc. but hardly learning English as in fully immersing themselves in the language. Look, needless to say,…

  • What grammar book is good to learn English?

    None! It does not exist. You never learn a language by studying grammar. Grammar books should only be used as a reference, just like a dictionary. You use a dictionary to look up the meaning of a word, that is to improve your vocabulary, and you should use a grammar book to help you…

  • What is “another” good movie to watch for English learning?

    In a previous post, I recommended Bill Murray’s “Groundhog day” as a good movie to watch to improve the learners’ English. There’s another movie that’s just as good for learning English especially for improving grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. Did I make you curious? I certainly hope so. Do you wanna (want to) take a…

  • Pronunciation: Misunderstood

    Pronunciation is often misunderstood. Consequently, it is commonly thought of as a boring process which involves aimless repetition and pointless correction of individual sounds such as /r/ /l/ /v/ /b/ etc. Very few teachers truly and completely understand the full scope of pronunciation teaching and its benefits to the students. And those who do…