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Wow.

So many replies to yesterday’s Vitamin V!

I feel like Michael Jackson on his birthday. Read More >

I get a lot of emails.

And a lot of them were written by Google translate.

Not a sentence or two, the whole thing.  Read More >

I had a major wipeout today.

Translation: crash

I decided to have a ski break in the afternoon.  Read More >

“if you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I’ve noticed something interesting. Read More >

Have you seen this one?

Ha!

And if you don’t get the joke: Read More >

There are two types of motivation.

Push and pull.

When you’re a kid and it’s Sunday night and instead of playing with your friends outside you’re studying for the big algebra test you have in the morning, that’s push. Read More >

Americans are terrible at learning foreign languages.

Except…

There’s one small group of religious people who walked across America about 150 years ago. They settled in the desert. The men married many women. And now their great-grand children can learn any foreign language in just a few months. Read More >

Motivation. 

Desire.

A BIG why.  Read More >

Do you know anyone who’s bi-lingual?

That means, he or she speaks two languages.

You probably do. Read More >

This week we’re searching for the keystone of English mastery.

What is the most important thing… the critical ingredient… the one tool in your belt that if you removed it, success with English would not be possible?

Is it intelligence? Read More >