Do you believe humans can learn languages naturally?
Or do you believe someone has to teach us languages?
I believe how you answer this question will predict if you will become fluent or stay stuck at intermediate.
A Question The Fluent Ask Which The Stuck Intermediates Do Not
I was having lunch with a Romanian friend.
I said “The waiter’s a knucklehead.”
She said, “What does that mean?”
How To Fight Your English Fear
-Mr. Vig“Your head hurts…it’s harder to breathe… And there is no lion. There’s no shark. There’s not even a zombie. Not one zombie. But you have theses terrible nervous feelings just because you have to speak English.”
Some people like to quote Churchill or Gandi or Shakespeare.
Pht! That’s so predictable!
Goal #1: Get Started
Starting your own business so you can have more time is like having a baby so you can get more sleep.
That’s why last Monday, during a national holiday, when normal people were relaxing in the park, I was working in the park.
I was shooting videos for my new youtube channel.
Help! I make English mistakes!
How many hours of video were just uploaded to youtube?
The answer: 300.
And that’s not 300 hours yesterday.
3 Terrible Reasons To Go To A Language School
“I took some classes at a language school and now I speak fluent English”…
is a sentence I have never, ever, never, ever heard one person say.
Not once.
Pigeon Disco English School
My apartment is on the sixth floor.
That means I can see a lot of rooftops and a lot of pigeons.
Whenever I need to think, I like to look out my windows at the pigeons.
Crazy Planet English
Have you seen the movie Interstellar?
This was one of those movies I couldn’t stop thinking about.
My favorite scene was when the astronauts landed on a planet that had super gravity. And the result of this super gravity was that every minute they stayed on the planet, seven years would pass on Earth.
Weird. Right?
What’s The Opposite Of Homework?
When I was a kid we played a game called “Opposite Day.”
“Yes” meant “no.” “Stop” meant “go.” And I think you got extra points if you walked backwards, or something like that.
What if today was Opposite Day for English?
A Comfortable Distraction
“Wow. This guy’s an expert.”
A few years ago I was sitting in the Beer Museum on Dlouha Street in Prague talking with a new friend about women.
He knew about psychology, body language, evolutionary theory…
