Oct 30, 2019
Students often ask me if we can use idioms and slang in
professional situations - and the answer is "it depends."
Some expressions are not appropriate for the workplace, but there
are many that you can use in conversations among co-workers and
less formal emails.
Today you’ll learn 15 English idioms & phrasal
verbs...
Oct 23, 2019
The words experience and experiment might be the same in some languages... but in English they are different, and I often see students confuse them. Both of these words can be both nouns and verbs. Let’s see how exactly they are used.
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Oct 16, 2019
Today I want to answer a question that is important for everyone who is studying English. Many of my students say, "I study grammar a lot and I understand it in theory. But when I speak, I can't think of the grammar in the moment, or it takes too long to remember the rules. So how can I use grammar correctly when...
Oct 9, 2019
When you're studying English, I recommend focusing on learning
phrases and not just individual words. When you only study
individual words, it's hard to put them together into a phrase -
but when you study phrases, then it's much easier for you to use
the whole phrase when speaking.
The problem is that sometimes you...
Oct 2, 2019
Today I'll teach you about some common English-learning
mistakes that I’ve observed among the hundreds of
students whom I’ve worked with.
This lesson is going to be a little different because it’s not
about fixing specific words or phrases; instead, it’s about
correcting typical problems that language learners...