34 Is English difficult to learn?
Is English difficult to learn? Learn how you measure your language progress and how difficult it is to achieve fluency in English comparing to other languages with our new 'Figure Out English' episode.
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Learning English Effectively: How to Manage Your Time
In my recent Facebook live video session, I was talking about two main aspects of learning English effectively: self-organisation and schedules. Finding the time for English learning is probably the most popular problem I hear about. In many cases, people…
Best English Learning Websites (Article from Real English Conversations)
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What you should know about New Year Resolutions
It has been one of the most difficult to write blog posts for me. New Year Resolutions are a big thing yet they seem to be not real. And how can we work with that? I know goals are crucial. I…
New Webinar: Secrets of Small Talk – Asking Questions
I am teaching Secrets of Small Talk in a free online webinar this Thursday, December 08th, at 04.30pm CET (Central European Time). Webinars are great for online learning, and I hope to reach people from different countries and backgrounds to…
French field trip – Secrets of effective language learning
We have just come back from our wonderful trip to France. It was two weeks of driving around the East and the South-Eastern part. For this particular trip, I had a special goal: to verify my French speaking skills in real-life context.
Why can’t we learn a language?
When I help people learn a language, we do not just learn words and structures. We spend quite a while discussing how this person forms a new linguistic reality in their mind. We pay a lot of attention to this process because it is the…
Why it is so hard to learn writing
The webinar ‘Make your writing work for you’ has happened, and I am more than happy about it! I am delighted to have seen more than 20 people come, and the ones participating in the chat were so active. It was…