by EFL Listening Teacher | Interview |
Do you suddenly find yourself on Zoom/Skype/Facetime (insert video conferencing platform of your choice) all day long? Do you need to do conference calls or video calls in English? For work? For connecting with friends and family? These types of calls can be...
by EFL Listening Teacher | listening tips |
When I was learning to drive, I didn’t realise that I’d hit so many plateaus along the way. In other words, periods where, no matter what I did, I didn’t improve. I would master something, and things seemed to be going great, for it all to stop and for me to get very...
by EFL Listening Teacher | listening tips |
So I should add a subheading here. I have no problem with slow talking YouTube teachers. When you teach a language for a living, your job is to make it accessible. And that means talking in a more slow and clear way. When I trained to teach English, I had to learn to...
by EFL Listening Teacher | understand native speakers |
Do you dream of moving to the USA? And living the American dream? Well, in this post I’m interviewing a real life expat – my friend Inés who moved from Madrid to Austin, Texas, in January 2017. She’s a Spanish teacher at yourlifeinspain.com where she teaches...
by EFL Listening Teacher | listening tips |
Now I know this headline sounds a bit spammy And I’m not a fan of instantaneous wonder tricks. If I believed in that, I would have given up teaching and learning a language a long time ago. Because I believe anything worth having in life, that transforms your life,...