CASTLETON, VIRGINIA – Greetings from sunny Virginia.
I’m back home for a few weeks visiting family.
Soon I’ll return to Europe.
What’s the best question to ask a native speaker?
Rule #2 (YOU MUST BREAK) for Fluent English
This week we’re talking about rules.
Not the rules you must follow.
…the rules you must break!
…and break them like Van Damme breaks bricks.
Rule #1 (YOU MUST BREAK) for Fluent English
“How did you learn English?”
I ask this question almost weekly.
Only once I heard the answer: “I learned to speak English at the _____ School of English.”
Sure, you can make progress at a school.
Don’t tell the police
How was your weekend?
Did you break any laws?
I did.
No, I didn’t dress in black and steel valuable jewels from a museum.
If you can learn poker you can master English
I must admit something.
It’s not something I tell everyone.
You see, although I’m an American…
Accountant vs. Surfer — Who’s the better English student?
Imagine…
Two students in an English class.
One is an accountant.
Hidden Prague. And a simple way to remember words
Yesterday I gave you a short tour of the doors of Prague.
I’ve always been curious about them.
For years I wondered, “What’s on the other side?”
How to apartment surf in Europe
I love old doors.
And Prague has some really great ones.
Yesterday I went for a walk and took some pictures.
It snowed last night!
It snowed last night!
(For me readers in Africa, the Middle East and South-East Asia, it’s the white stuff.)
the view outside my window
The mental game of English
I just got back from the dentist
This was a return visit.
Two weeks ago I went for a checkup and I heard the words you don’t want to hear when you’re sitting in the chair.