Daily Lessons / blog posts

BETWEEN PRAGUE AND VIENNA – Goodbye boat.

Hello, road.

I’m writing this week’s Vitamin V from a train.

Outside my window are green fields and a grey sky.

For the last week I was living on a boat in Prague.

But now I’m travelling east for a few weeks until I go home for Christmas.

Why did I leave Prague? Read More >

Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.

-Alvin Tofflerauthor of the book “Future Shock“

VIRGINIA, USA – Do you know how to learn?

Not “what to learn.”

Not “when to learn.” 

How to learn English…. 

If your answer is, “Go to a language school” then your answer is “No.”  Read More >

This week’s English lesson comes to you from the deep, dark Virginia woods. 

Yes, the forest.  

So pour a cup of coffee and have a seat. Read More >

It all started many years ago when you were a little boy or little girl in school… 

You went to school. 

The teacher gave you new vocabulary on Tuesday.  Read More >

“I know a lot of words but I don’t know how to use them.”

That’s a common problem.

I hear it a lot. Read More >

“Your homework is to learn the vocabulary at the end of the chapter.”

That’s what language teachers all over the world tell their students.

And how do the students learn the vocabulary? Read More >

Once a week I meet my School of Speaking students online.

We have a lesson, we chat, they ask questions…

Here’s one I got this Saturday… Read More >

 I’ve got a friend living in Spain.

He’s American. 

And he’s learning the language. Read More >