I will teach you to become a confident English speaker without schools and rules
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.
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.
September 1997.
Charles de Gaule Airport, Paris, France.
“Bon jour.”
Lockdown!
The World Health Organization says it’s a bad idea…
Graphs of daily deaths show they don’t have a big impact…
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.
A conversation on Skype tonight with a French friend:
HIM: Yeah, I don’t really want to be here anymore.
ME: Why’s that?
Every year Prague opens its doors to 20 million visitors.
But not this year.
I arrived back to the city on Friday, after 23 months away.
Tuesday I asked you a question.
I asked, What is English?
An incorrect answer is, “a foreign language.”
You know you should improve your English.
You know better English will improve your life.
You even WANT to improve your English.
Prague…
The capital city of the Czech Republic…
What images do you see when you think of this city?