Daily Lessons / blog posts

STUDENT: I want you to correct my mistakes.
MR. VIG: Unfortunately, that doesn’t work.
STUDENT: But I do a lot of mistakes.
MR. VIG: Make… You MAKE a lot of mistakes.
STUDENT: Yes. That’s right. So please correct me when I do a mistake. 

Students always ask me to correct them. 

When I tell them it doesn’t work they look at me like I’m telling them the earth is flat.  Read More >

“Unsubscribe.”

What does that mean?

Well, if you want to get a newspaper or magazine or my Vitamin V  daily English lessons sent to you, you subscribe. Read More >

A new day, a new city.

I’m a travelling teacher. 

Last year, it was seven countries.  Read More >

Someone asked me that question again this weekend.

My answer: 

Forever. Read More >

I remember when I found out.

I was in my apartment in Prague (that was my classroom in the old days). 

I was with a student. Read More >

“There is no such thing as a bad question.” 

Teachers always say that. 

We want you to speak and not to be shy. Read More >

A reader sent me an email today. 

It was a reply to a Vitamin V I had sent her. 

As I was typing my reply, I noticed something strange.  Read More >

Brits call it a “mobile phone.” 

Americans say “cell phone.”

What do I call my phone? Read More >

Last winter I was in Mexico.

There were a ton of Americans and Canadians there.

This winter I’m in a ski town in the Pirin Mountains. Read More >

A memory from a recent visit home…

Dinner time.

Sitting at the kitchen table reading a magazine. Read More >