Yesterday I saw and spoke with students from the Philippines, Mexico, Bangladesh, Macedonia, the Congo….
And I never left my desk!
Isn’t technology amazing?
Master Fluent English
by Mr. Vig
Yesterday I saw and spoke with students from the Philippines, Mexico, Bangladesh, Macedonia, the Congo….
And I never left my desk!
Isn’t technology amazing? Read More >
by Mr. Vig
Do you translate in your head?
When you’re speaking English…
When you’re listening to English… Read More >
by Mr. Vig
A man walks into a doctor’s office with a broken hand.
The doctor fixes the hand.
But the man will be back because the doctor did not discover the cause of the problem.
If the doctor had asked questions he would have discovered: Read More >
by Mr. Vig
Do you translate English words in your head?
Before you speak, do you think in your native language first, then translate
to English?
Or when you’re listening to English, do you try to translate the English
words into your native language?
If you do that’s a problem.
It will hurt your fluency, drain your brain power, and cause mistakes.
But there is a cure.
Four, actually.
But first, you have to understand the reason why…
Why do you translate in your head?
Watch this short video to discover which translation “disease” you have. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
“And he said, you’re not going crazy, you’re just a bit sad
‘Cause there’s a man in ya, gnawing ya, tearing ya into two”
-lyrics from “Destroyer” by the Kinks
I remember the first time I met The Translator.
It was the winter of 2005 and I was a new teacher. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
Preeti A. writes:
“I gave an interview for an online teaching job. I got nervous, and because of it I made many grammatical mistakes while speaking. Now I have no courage to give another interview. What should I do?”
As we say in English, you need to get back on the horse. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
What’s the easiest English grammar rule in the world?
It’s probably on Page One of your elementary school English book.
It’s so easy you can learn it in five seconds and remember it forever. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
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by Mr. Vig
Our Sunday afternoon guests didn’t look very happy.
There were four kids, plus their dad.
And although they had just spent the day swimming and eating banana ice Read More >