Isn’t technology wonderful?
Until, of course, it breaks.
And when you teach and communicate and sell 100% online like I do, well, things break all the time.
Why my student beat his grandmother with a stick
Here’s one of my favorite teaching memories.
The year was 2005.
It was either the Tuesday or Wednesday after Easter weekend.
Speed English, part 2
26 years to learn English!
In 1984, Piotr Wozniak was a twenty-year-old student at Poland’s Poznam university.
He started learning English in the typical way — he memorized lists of words and translations.
He was a fast forgetter. Now he remembers 96% FOREVER
What if remembering was a choice?
What if you could save thousands of new words in your brain like you save words in your computer?
With 96% success…
There’s always a fast way…IF you want to see it
Sunday morning I saw this message on Whatsapp:
“Who wants to play beach volleyball?”
My reply, “Hell, yeah!”
Is your memory normal?
Are you good at remembering names?
I’m not.
In fact, is anyone?
The six WORST times to study English
1. after you come home from work and your brain is so exhausted you just want to stare at the wall
2. at the weekend when you have five free hours
3. Tuesday and Thursday, from 5:30 to 6:55 (because that’s when the language school tells you you will learn)
Sitting in Class With One Billion Students
When you were a kid, was your English class full?
Did you have 1 billion classmates?
Because according to Señor Google, that’s how many people are learning English.
Welcome to Planet English
A reader wrote to me last week:
“I want better English because everybody speaks English in this Globe.”
A quick Google search tells me there are 1.5 billion English speakers.
For her new job they asked only one question about her English…
I’ve got a friend who lives in Spain.
He told me his girlfriend is going to Poland.
She wants to help the refugees.
