Podcasts – Strategies in Language Learning

No matter what religion you practice I suspect that many people around the world are winding down. It is a good time to relax, recharge and maybe reaffirm or tweak your current goals, or maybe even set new ones. Listen to the jingle below to put you in the right frame of mind! Something light […]

Dramatically improve Your Language Learning by finding strategies and attitudes that will enable you to enjoy your learning.

I had the pleasure recently of being interviewed by Sylvia Guinan on the role of empathy in language learning in Teacher Appreciation week. The interview with me formed part of a 2 hr session on WizIQ with various language experts from around the world, which explored the role of empathy in language learning.  In the […]

Dramatically improve Your Language Learning by finding strategies and attitudes that will enable you to enjoy your learning.

Listen to the podcast below (an interview with Dr. Piers Messum) and discover valuable insights as to how we stress and reduce vowel sounds in English. This understanding and the resultant techniques talked about have the potential to transform the successes you have as a learner in mastering the unique demands of the English language. (This […]

Dramatically improve Your Language Learning by finding strategies and attitudes that will enable you to enjoy your learning.

Many people do not want to make mistakes in learning languages, however they serve an important function in learning, which in fact can’t be avoided. As James Joyce said,”Mistakes are the portals to discovery”. They alert us to what we are doing wrong and hence what we need to work on to progress. To better […]

Dramatically improve Your Language Learning by finding strategies and attitudes that will enable you to enjoy your learning.

Dramatically improve Your Language Learning by finding strategies and attitudes that will enable you to enjoy your learning.

Listen in as Dr. Piers Messum explains how by using imitation as a key to learning pronunciation we have been misled and then find out the keys we can use to learn pronunciationI recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Piers Messum, who teaches in London and did his dissertation a few years ago on the role […]

It is possible to learn a language in many different ways. One way that appeals to many people is reading. What is important to remember that if you wish to speak, nothing will replace the activity of speaking. However by learning to better use your reading time you may well be able to accelerate your […]

Dramatically improve Your Language Learning by finding strategies and attitudes that will enable you to enjoy your learning.

A little understood language learning strategy Every language learner I believe understands the importance of practice. However, just what constitutes language practice that will lead to improvement is an issue that is not so readily agreed understood. Many readers will, I am confident, be able to relate to times when practice did not result in […]

Dramatically improve Your Language Learning by finding strategies and attitudes that will enable you to enjoy your learning.

Does “practice make perfect” or “does practice make improvement”? I think both can be true but really we will get much further and not get disillusioned if we aim for progress rather than perfection.  That way we can keep progressing until we get to perfection! Did you know that when a Shuttle rocket blasts off […]