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  • Building Your English Vocabulary: One Magical Tip

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    Building your English vocabulary is essential to improving your fluency. That is a fact. If you do not know words, you cannot say much. The more words you know, the less time you need to think of what to say in a conversation. When you have a small or limited vocabulary, you will have…

  • English Is Hard! DUH! And Here Are 3 Reasons Why!

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    English hard! I hate it! “English hard, why does it have to be so hard” have repeatedly complained my students! My reaction is “Duh”! How stupid would someone have to be to think language learning, any language learning, can actually be easy! However, no one said it couldn’t be “easIER”! Why English hard? If…

  • English Learning Self-Study Guide

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    English learning Key areas English learning is very difficult. I have met hundreds of English learners who lost motivation shortly after coming to Australia. Big disappointment. There is a myth that most English learners (and their family and friends) believe in prior to coming to Australia. The myth is “if I live in Australia,…

  • Your Accent Matters! Yes It Does

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    Yes Accent Matters! If you speak English, your accent matters. Do not listen to them English teachers and professors because they are full of bull. If you speak English and live in an English speaking country like the US, Canada, Australia or Britain, your accent does matter. No question about it. That’s natural. And…

  • A New Voice, A New Life

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    That’s not always true, but 80% of the times it kind of is, a new voice is a new life. The idea here is not for you to go to your nearest hospital and start shopping for a new throat with new vocal chords, we’re talking about speaking another language, a second or third…

  • 3 insane tips to practice speaking English!

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    How to practice speaking English is a question that I have heard probably over a million times throughout my career. Now, I have 3 great tips for you but as just in case you don’t know, I’m not really a “sane” English teacher and my interest in teaching the language, specifically speaking, listening and…

  • How Intensive Listening Does Wonders For English Learning

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    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…

  • Who can master native English?

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    Out of a hundred thousand people reading this article, there could only be one who, 1/has the mind power to master the spoken English, and 2/has the talent and skills to master it without the help of a good teacher or coach. I am aware that the notion of mastering the spoken English is…

  • Blessed are the English learners who can master their emotions

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    To master your emotions is to decide how YOU WANT to be feeling now as opposed to how you ARE feeling now! Imagine how difficult that is. As a matter of fact, for most people, it is beyond reach. While it is most certainly not beyond reach (unfeasible), it can easily be if it…

  • 4 silly myths about learning English

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      Silly myth 1: “If you live in an English speaking country for just 3 months, you can speak English like a native speaker.” Can’t tell you how many dreams I’ve seen get shattered and hearts broken. Many seem to believe that it is almost a certain fact if you manage to live in…