“You can’t make an omellette without breaking some eggs.”
Have you heard that expression before?
That’s how I feel about speaking.
Daily Lessons / blog posts
How to improve your grammar and stay out of jail
Yesterday I showed you a sign.
It was a sign in my building with five English mistakes.
And I asked you to send your suggestions for a rewrite.
The only time your English must be perfect
“Forget about your mistakes!”
“Perfect doesn’t exist!”
“No one cares about your tenses and conditionals!”
That’s what I’m always telling my students.
The Best Classrooms Serve Beer
Where can you learn English faster?
The classroom or the pub?
A lot of Czech students would tell you “The pub.”
I agree.
Check out my new Tesla
I’ve invented a new sport.
It’s called “apartment surfing.”
Here’s how you play: Every week (or two) you rent a new apartment, pack your bag and move.
That’s exactly what I’m doing now in Prague.
My first lesson as an English teacher
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC – Let’s take a walk down Memory Lane.
That’s an English idiom that means, I’m about to tell you some nice stories from the past.
Specifically, let me tell you about my first year as a teacher.
It was 2004.
Apartment surfing in Prague
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC – Soft Lockdown Week Two
What do you do when every restaurant, cafe, bar, cinema, museum, gym, pool and indoor rockclimbing wall is closed?
You go for a walk.
And that’s what I did Sunday.
How I discovered the secret to understanding everyone
September 1997.
Charles de Gaule Airport, Paris, France.
“Bon jour.”
Be careful of this kind of teacher…
Lockdown!
The World Health Organization says it’s a bad idea…
Graphs of daily deaths show they don’t have a big impact…
How To Speak English And Feel Powerful
Yesterday I told you about my French friend living in Belgium
I told you he’s not happy there, partly because he doesn’t like speaking French.
He prefers living in a country where he can speak English.
