Four Creative Strategies for Language Learning
Learning languages has become the norm for modern people. Knowing several foreign languages significantly expands your opportunities in finding new…
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Talking about Time: Insights from Other Languages
The following post is from Paul, an English teacher who lives in Argentina. Paul writes on behalf of Language Trainers,…
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A couple of days in Berlin
After volunteering in a hostel in Riga for six weeks, I decided to take the long way home via a…
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Emoji: The New Universal Language?
👋👇👌 – Hi, are you okay? 👍☺️ – I’m good thanks! 👏 – yay! Or something like that. Welcome to the wonderful…
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The ups and downs of coming home
When you work abroad as an English as a foreign language teacher, coming home for the occasional visit and obligatory…
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The Long And Winding Road… of Long Distance Bus Travel
If you’re on a budget or just want to indulge in a bit of thinking time, travelling across Europe by…
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Supermarket Swipe
I’m a Morrisons kind of girl. And when I look longingly into my box of Yorkshire Tea and see nothing…
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A Hungry Conundrum
Learning a language is one thing… but what happens when that language changes depending where in the country you happen to…
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Helping yourself to learn a language
Before launching into an ‘only teacher knows best’ tirade, which would sound incredibly biased as I am a language teacher myself,…
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Are you ever too old to learn a language?
As a small child, I was practically a real-life Harry Potter. Without the magic. Or the mean Aunt and Uncle….