How to Stop Translating in your Head
There comes a time in every advanced language learner’s life, that they will stop translating in their head. This is the moment in which speaking in your second language becomes truly organic;...
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“I was fast asleep with the window wide open!” Single-use intensifiers.
While I was teaching an English class recently, I described a car as being “brand new”. A student asked me what “brand” means in this context, and I said “Very”; like “very new”....
New Years Resolutions 2018
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people make New Year’s Resolutions; a promise to oneself to stop or start a habit for the month of January, or, hopefully, a lot longer. People quit smoking,...
Christmas food in six continents
Last week we looked at some special Christmas traditions from all over the globe. Today, we will examine in more detail one thing that most people would agree is an important part of Christmas...
Some common useful expressions
One of the hardest parts of learning a language are ready-made expressions. Those expressions are even more difficult when they don’t make any obvious sense! To help, I have made a collection of some...
How to Sell Yourself
Whether you are writing a CV, an application letter to a potential employer or an internet dating profile, you have to know how to sell yourself. Coming up with something interesting, unique and fresh...
Which one? Like or as? Between, among or amid?
Here are some commonly confused words, with some simple ways to remember which one to use. As and Like If you are talking about a person’s job or a thing’s usage, then use...
