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My inspiration for teaching - is this a joke?

Hello dearest students, Please find below a two part piece on the issues which inspired me to becom...

A Recipe for Disaster - English Reading Comprehension - 3 Versions (A1/A2, B1, B2/C1)

A1/A2 VERSIONRecently, I started teaching English and French on Cafetalk. I had taught before, but...

I wish someone had told me!

Here are two things I wish I hadn’t done as a language learner:   I focused too much on grammar. I ...

How a running injury taught me the value of slowing down

Last October I was training hard, coming off the back of a half marathon and training for a 10k. I ...

Small Failures, Big Lessons

Sometimes the best lessons don’t come from books or classrooms. They come from little slip-ups in d...

Learning in Context

When I first began to learn Russian, which is very different from English, I tried to memorize all ...