Category Archives: General English

Holiday English

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The end of year 'silly season' is fast approaching. While a lot of students of English are probably winding up their scheduled, official lessons whether they be at a physical language school or a virtual, online school like ours the good news is there's no need to stop learning English. Every student of a foreign language knows the number 1 enemy of making progress in learning is taking a break. Now everyone needs to take a break from time to time so how do you navigate this time of the year without slipping backwards in your learning? So there's a good side to this time of year which can actually give your learning a boost. There's only one catch you actually need to go on a holiday - I hope this is not too much of problem! So if...

Teens, because teenagers also want to speak English fluently!

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Some might say after 10 years it's about time we provided a program specifically designed with teenagers in mind! From our beginnings as an online language we thought that the English level of teenage students would not be high enough to get maximum benefit from a conversation based lesson. We also thought that teenagers would not have enough self confidence, life experience or attention span and commitment to speak with an adult in a conversational, free flowing manner. Our experience over the last 10 years though has shown us clearly that we were wrong on all of these points! When teenagers have learnt with us they have done just as well if not better than our adult students. So we've tried to think of their specific needs as well as their parents in designing a program...

I wish I was more like my students

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Maybe I'm just lucky but I feel I have been blessed to have such motivated, interesting students over my last 10 yrs of online English teaching. When it comes to learning a foreign language THEY really know their stuff. So I thought I would share what they have taught me on how to get the best results from learning a language online. Here's how they do it: Consistency with breaks and surges. What does that mean? So while it might be common knowledge that consistency is one of the keys to improving any skill or acquiring knowledge of a subject this consistency doesn't mean learning 2 or 3 lessons a week all year round. Of course every student has their own preferences and particularities but what I've found works best for most...
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