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I moved into my new apartment yesterday.

This is #4.

Every place has something unique. Read More >

Yesterday I showed you a sign.

It was a sign in my building with five English mistakes.

And I asked you to send your suggestions for a rewrite. Read More >

“Forget about your mistakes!”
“Perfect doesn’t exist!”

“No one cares about your tenses and conditionals!”

That’s what I’m always telling my students. Read More >

Where can you learn English faster?
The classroom or the pub?

A lot of Czech students would tell you “The pub.”

I agree. Read More >

I’ve invented a new sport.
It’s called “apartment surfing.”

Here’s how you play: Every week (or two) you rent a new apartment, pack your bag and move.

That’s exactly what I’m doing now in Prague. Read More >

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC – Let’s take a walk down Memory Lane.
That’s an English idiom that means, I’m about to tell you some nice stories from the past.

Specifically, let me tell you about my first year as a teacher.

It was 2004. Read More >

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC – Soft Lockdown Week Two
What do you do when every restaurant, cafe, bar, cinema, museum, gym, pool and indoor rockclimbing wall is closed?

You go for a walk.

And that’s what I did Sunday. Read More >

September 1997.

Charles de Gaule Airport, Paris, France.

“Bon jour.” Read More >

Lockdown!

The World Health Organization says it’s a bad idea…

Graphs of daily deaths show they don’t have a big impact… Read More >

Yesterday I told you about my French friend living in Belgium

I told you he’s not happy there, partly because he doesn’t like speaking French.

He prefers living in a country where he can speak English. Read More >