An English teacher on a journey to explore other things in the world.
Let’s continue to explore ways to use English (or another language) more in your everyday life. The previous part was about Reading and Writing and this one focuses on Listening (Watching) and Speaking. Just as a reminder, the idea is to make English part… Read More »More English Practice Daily – Listening and Speaking
At first I had hoped to continue with da studies as it was in June, as much as possible, but then I understood my focus was getting worse and I needed a break. So I took it and caught up… Read More »July’23 – a Mid-Summer break
Some years ago I was teaching in IT companies and I noticed that programmers were quite good at learning English. They were able to identify language patterns pretty quickly and put them to use straight away. On average, at least… Read More »How similar are learning a natural language and a programming one?
So, here are some ways to use English (or another language) more in your everyday life. We start with Reading and Writing. Reading practice Change the language on your phone, on your computer/ laptop and in the browser to English. You already… Read More »More English practice daily – Reading and Writing
A while ago, when I was studying the concept of language coaching, I read an interesting book called From English Teacher to Learner Coach. One of the main ideas was to encourage learners to have as much English practice outside (!)… Read More »A learner or a user?
I regularly have Zoom calls with a friend of mine and an English teacher who is Hungarian. Sometimes she has to answer phone calls and then I have a chance to catch the sound of her native language. Now, I… Read More »A silent period in language learning
Have you compiled the list of your 2022 achievements? How did it feel to make it? Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been reading such reports on my feeds and, Gosh, I am greatly impressed by how much those people… Read More »A note on the 2022 results
I have mixed feeling about the month. On the one hand I did a lot of things, on the other I was ill again, like I hadn’t been for a long time (I guess I caught flu after a virus),… Read More »December’22 – Language Advent, Articles and a Masterclass
Let’s start with discourse. Discourse is a unit/ segment of spoken or written language that goes above or below a sentence and refers to a certain social context. So, it may be a piece of writing, or a story, or just… Read More »Discourse markers
(A quick search in my books hasn’t yielded a lot of theory on this topic, so I’ll write from experience and based on what I found online. If you have something to add, please leave a comment.) The first part… Read More »Sentence frames and social formulae