At 2 hours a week it will take you about 12 to 15 years to reach a high level of effective business communication, if at all (sorry about that). Do the math, each level (A1, A2, B1 etc) are estimated at around 200 to 300 hours of English. So how do you stay the course? How do you speed it up? Firstly, nothing succeeds like success, nothing motivates more than visible, tangible progress. When you see that there is some return on the time, effort and money that goes into learni
For some people—most people, actually, the data say around 70%—speaking another language makes them feel anxious, silly and uncomfortable. I am one of those people, and also a language teacher, so I have some insights on this topic. The holy grail, from a learner's perspective, is feeling at ease when speaking to other people in another language. This post explores some of the practical things that I recommend to my students (and remind myself from time to time) to reduce thi
