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The Final Word: Language Learning and Death
Nothing’s wrong, so take a deep breath and read on: this is important. Thanks for reading! If you’re interested in more – why not sign up for my newsletter? There are many reasons
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Makers are the new learners: language learning and the makers movement
If your idea of learning a language involves staring at whiteboards and wading through grammar books, here’s a different approach. By focusing on doing things – rather than learning about and around them
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Unfinished Business: how I failed as a Business English teacher (and why that matters)
Blog challenges are either super-exciting or super-awkward to respond to. This is both. It’s awkward and unsettling and difficult to re-live failures, and this is what the challenge is about. But at the
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The Gap and the Work: Disappointment and Taste in Learning Foreign Languages
I’ve admired and enjoyed the work of Ira Glass for a long time. When I recently heard his thoughts on creativity, my respect for what he does became even bigger – and I
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You May Not Enjoy This: Getting Through The Chore of Language Learning
The myth of foreign language study is always similar: learn a new language, meet new people, have fun, explore, live the good life. Today, I want to write about the other perspective. What happens
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Made, Not Born: the Anatomy of Talent
A few days ago I took apart some of the thinking behind excuse making. Later, as I was thinking about my pet peeve – the “no talent for learning languages” excuse – I
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