“Fear and frustration.”
When I asked you yesterday to tell me your #1 speaking problem, this is what you told me.
Fear: Fear of mistakes. Fear of what the other person will think. Fear of embarrassment.
Power Lesson for Awesome Speaking, Pt. 1
What is your #1 problem when you speak English?
Verb tenses…
Vocabulary…
Understanding…
An App For Speaking?
Michal P. writes:
“Could you please recommend the best apps to improve our speaking?”
And my reply is…
An English lesson from a dead Roman
Do you have a morning routine?
If you’re a member of The Society you know why they’re important and you know how to create a powerful routine for your English.
My morning routine has about five elements to it. I do these same five things, in the same order, every morning. The routine is designed to make me healthier, wealthier and wiser, all before I finish my first cup of coffee.
An English lesson from a Maltese soldier
Last week I asked the question, What’s the best way to learn English?
One reader had a very interesting reply.
I’ll share it with you here:
Do you have any English speaking friends?
When I was teaching English in Prague I knew two groups of Czechs: there were my students and there were my friends.
And usually, my friends had better English than my students.
It wasn’t because they had the language gene or some other advantage.
Is living abroad really the best way to learn?
As you may know, I taught English in Prague for many years.
Whenever I met a Czech or Slovak who had really good English, usually it was because they had lived in the US or UK or Australia.
Usually, they didn’t need my lessons. So my conclusion was, living abroad is a great way to master English.
Have you ever been to a language school?
Have you ever paid for English classes at a language school?
What was it like?
Did you improve? A little? A lot? Not at all?
The Newest English Word?
Change is in the air.
Here in Virginia, the temperature is a little cooler and the days are a little shorter.
This weekend I drove across the mountains to meet a friend in West Virginia for a canoe trip down the Potomac River.
Could you speak English for one year?
Could you speak a foreign language — for example, English — for one year?
And NEVER speak your native language until the year ended?
That’s what Scott Young did.