Do you want to impress your girlfriend, boyfriend, boss, colleague or friends this New Year’s eve? Here’s how you use Albert Einstein’s pearls of wisdom to inspire people while you’re making a toast. As the great Albert Einstein once said: (Look at person A) LEARN from YESterday (Look at person B) LIVE for toDAY (Look […]
Who me? Oh Gosh! let’s see! Maybe…watching TV, partying, sleeping, pigging out, anything ending with “ing”! Yes including “having sex”! Well I think you’ve got the gist of it. 😉 Look, I’m a TV junkie, I like to watch just about anything except reality shows like “Big Brother” “The Biggest Loser” “Fear Factor” or any […]
You’re very likely to hear and say this word around this time of year right? Just as we are about to bid farewell to 2013 and welcome 2014 with fireworks, a lot of laughter and cheer, we often ask our friends or colleagues What is your New Year’s RESOLUTION? That’s how you say it: re-so-LU-tion […]
I believe that speaking English or any other language is a physical skill just like typing on your keyboard with both hands while looking at the screen. Imagine that your fingers have repeatedly performed the same movements to the extent of memorizing the exact location of every button on the keyboard. You can even imagine […]
Here’s a cute idiom in the spirit of the holidays: Like Turkeys Voting for Christmas! Wait a minute. Why would a turkey vote for Christmas? Turkeys should be voting AGAINST Christmas. Why? Because every year on Christmas eve, millions of families around the world eat turkeys for dinner. So the turkeys voting for Christmas is […]
We use “You can say that again!” to express our strong agreement with someone. So basically, it’s a nice way of saying “I agree with you completely” or“I have exactly the same opinion” etc. I agree with you completely=You can say that again So if I say, for example, “it’s really cold today isn’t it?”, […]
In Hook (Spielberg’s Peter Pan movie), the adult Peter is unable to fly until he remembers his “happy thought”, and here I say, adults are unable to speak fluent English until they remember how to imitate. My job is to jog your memory. Since I began teaching my first pronunciation and fluency course in Australia […]
Damn it they are everywhere! There are almost more English teachers out there than students. Basically, anyone who speaks the language is eligible to teach it. In some countries, it is good enough if you are a native speaker, in others you are expected to have some form of certification (and not a qualification mind […]
Here’s a story told by my fictitious Japanese friend “Kazu” 🙂 But wait…before I tell you the story, I’ve got to warn you that the content might be offensive to some readers, though I assure you that Kazu and I are completely innocent and both victims to Kazu’s horrible Japanese pronunciation. Now, I need your help […]
Please do not assume that I am suggesting you learn the English speakers’ body language (although it wouldn’t hurt but it’s just not what this article is about). What I’m suggesting though is that you watch the body language of English speakers during speech to get a better grasp of the English stress and intonation. […]
