listening skills

  • 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…

  • 7 spelling-pronunciation rules for vowels

    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!

  • Listen to speak, read to write

    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…