Atomic Homework

Starting your own business so you can have more time is like having a baby so you can get more sleep.

That’s why last Monday, during a national holiday, when normal people were relaxing in the park, I was working in the park.

I was shooting videos for my new youtube channel. Read More >

“I took some classes at a language school and now I speak fluent English”…

is a sentence I have never, ever, never, ever heard one person say.

Not once. Read More >

Have you seen the movie Interstellar?

This was one of those movies I couldn’t stop thinking about.

My favorite scene was when the astronauts landed on a planet that had super gravity. And the result of this super gravity was that every minute they stayed on the planet, seven years would pass on Earth.

Weird. Right? Read More >

When I was a kid we played a game called “Opposite Day.”

“Yes” meant “no.” “Stop” meant “go.” And I think you got extra points if you walked backwards, or something like that.

What if today was Opposite Day for English? Read More >

“Wow. This guy’s an expert.”

A few years ago I was sitting in the Beer Museum on Dlouha Street in Prague talking with a new friend about women.

He knew about psychology, body language, evolutionary theory… Read More >

The fundamental question is:

Is English a subject or is it a skill?

Let me explain. Read More >

Q: I have studied English for years. Why am I still not fluent?

A: Because you’re studying English.

You can study chemistry. You can study history. You can even study computer languages. Read More >

I read somewhere that hospitals used to be very dangerous places.

If you were sick, it was safer to stay home.

I feel the same way about language schools. Read More >

It was exactly 12 years ago today.

It was my first spring in Prague and I was a travelling grammar teacher unpacking my text books and notes in a meeting room inside some big corporation.

8 a.m. and my first question to the group of bored IT guys was: Read More >