(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2v1n9v7) We all know the saying ‘its complicated’, but somehow it doesn’t seem to stop us either willingly getting into these situations, and/or being forced to try to sort out how to get out of them. Whichever you are in, you must at some point have taken a leap of faith to get…
Photo by Dragos Gontariu on Unsplash In the old days we all had to learn at a fixed pace. That meant that if you were in a first grade class you would learn the alphabet and numbers, if you were in the second grade you would learn addition and subtraction…etc. Everything was fixed based on your age. If…
Photo by Nagy Arnold on Unsplash Never before have we been as global as we are today. You can be sitting at a laptop in Kenya or downtown Manhattan and you have the same amount of information at your feet. To add to this you can now communicate anywhere, anytime and to anyone in the world. Even the…
I’d like to think that these days, as we all have cameras on our phone, that we are taking more pictures than ever, because we are constantly curious about the world out there and want to capture it to discover more. Perhaps that is so, but as the picture above shows, are we really taking…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2g3nLX3) As with all of us, we want to somehow impress people. It sounds phoney but it’s true, in one way or another we know that first impressions are very important, and what we say or how we speak can be a really engaging point or a real turn off. So too for…
So you may be able to read fast, but do you understand what you are reading? Or…you may be understanding what you are reading, but are you reading fast enough? These are common problems for ESL learners. But there are some things you can do to speed up your reading. Here’s how: Learn to Skim…
