How to Perfect English Listening and Speaking – the Fun Way!
I have had the pleasure to meet quite a few Algerians with beautiful spoken English, masha’Allah. Their pronunciation is very good, and frequently their vocabulary is quite extensive. Even more...
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Last night we lost power, just before maghrib. And so we went to bed early, my children and I, but because I’ve become a Ramadhan night owl I only dozed in bed, and was never really able to fully fall...
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“Karen,” one of my students said to me recently, ”I understand everything I read, and I can write well. But how do I improve my speaking?” In Algeria, this is a common problem. It’s not as though one...
View ArticleAn Email-a-Day Makes Writing Mistakes Go Away
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison For non-native English speakers, learning to write well in English is a challenging task — and it is a task that most...
View ArticleMaster English in Five Tiny Steps…
… or as Winston Churchill said: “Never, never, never, never give up.” A man and a child hiking “I’m too busy to study English!” is the most common complaint I hear from my adult English as a...
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