Mr Vig

I will teach you to become a confident English speaker without schools and rules

Daily Lessons / blog posts

New Research About Goals vs Commitments

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Last Thursday I went to a meetup of entrepreneurs.

At one point, we started to discuss the turn-out: about 16 people had RSVPed online, but only 6 people had shown up.

My friend, Kuba, figured it out quickly: everyone who was there had committed to another person. Read More >

Kids and Beer

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These are two things you don’t see together back in the States.

If a place serves alcohol, and it’s not a restaurant, there will not be anyone under the age of 21 anywhere near the place.

True story: When I went home for Christmas I saw the grocery store clerk ask for my dad’s I.D. – and he’s 83! Read More >

Even Hitler Speaks English

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Have you heard of the TV show “The Man In The High Castle”?

It’s about, What if the US had lost World War Two?

In this depressing alternative reality, the Third Reich controls the East Coast of the US and the Empire of Japan controls the West Coast. Read More >

How To Teach English

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Last Thursday I gave a presentation at one of the TEFL schools in Prague.

This is a school that trains English teachers.

I was there to talk to them about teaching private students, and one of them asked me an interesting question, “Do all students want grammar?” Read More >

Cheap Date

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Saturday was hot.

So I decided to escape the burning cobblestones of the center and go to a secret pool in the woods.

Well, about a thousand other people had the same idea, and my “secret” pool didn’t feel so secret. Read More >

Why English is Freedom

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Maybe you grew up in a city and never had this problem.

But if you grew up in a suburb, or in the country like me, then you know what it feels like to be a kid trapped at home.

Any time you want to go somewhere – to a friend’s house, to the store, to the playgroun – you have to ask, and sometimes beg, one of your parents to take you. Read More >