Every week I post on Facebook.
I get nice comments.
I get rude comments.
The Return of Vitamin V!
What happened?
It’s been two weeks since your last daily English lesson!
Well, the short answer is, I don’t know.
Goals Are For Losers
Do you know the name Scott Adams?
He’s the creator of the last funny newspaper comic, Dilbert.
And a few years ago, he wrote a book about how he achieved success called “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life.”
Get A Daily Routine
Have you heard?
Small is the new big.
It’s the small things you do every day that can change your life.
Do You JUST Need To Speak More?
“I just need to speak more.”
I hear that a lot.
My reply, “No, you don’t.”
This Is Teaching
I have a friend in Prague who teaches people how to quit smoking.
“How did you quit?” I asked him one day.
“I read a book,” he told me.
Explaining Is Not Teaching
“What are doing in Bansko?” asked a Bulgarian student with a surprised look on his face.
“Working and skiing,” I replied.
And when I’m neither working nor skiing, I’m travelling.
The Origin Of The Problem
Yesterday I taught you the difference between “original” and “traditions.”
If you write a song, it’s an original song: there’s no other song like it in the world — it’s unique.
If you use your grandmother’s recipe to bake a pie, it’s a traditional dish in your family.
The Most Common Mistake In The World?
I travel a lot.
And everywhere I go in Europe I see this mistake:
Here it is again
Grammar Is An International Problem!
A reader from the former USSR writes:
“Before I thought that school methods are only used in USSR, but now I see this is a worldwide problem.”
When I was a kid in the ‘80s, if you wanted to reject a classmate’s idea and do it with style, you questioned the origin of that idea.