Word Stress: Stress the Right Syllable
⏱ 5 Minutes · A2/B1 📖 From Experience My first week in Sydney, I said reCORD when I meant the noun. My colleague said REcord and…
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Inference in Reading: What the Text Doesn’t Say
⏱ 5 Minutes · B2 📖 From Experience When I read Dostoevsky as a teenager — secretly, since books were not encouraged at home — I…
ReadFormal Email Writing: Get It Right Every Time
⏱ 5 Minutes · B1/B2 📖 From Experience I have sent thousands of emails — job applications, complaints, appeals, formal requests. Each one from a different…
ReadSpeaking: Tell a Story in 60 Seconds
⏱ 5 Minutes · B1 📖 From Experience One of the most useful things you can do in English — in an interview, at a dinner,…
ReadListening Skills: Predict Before You Hear
⏱ 5 Minutes · B1/B2 📖 From Experience My daughter is 18 months old. Before she can speak, she listens with her whole body — watching…
ReadReading Skills: Skim First, Scan Second
⏱ 5 Minutes · B1 📖 From Experience When I was studying for my French C1 test, I had to read long articles in 40 minutes.…
ReadDescribing Places: The Language of Home and Belonging
⏱ 5 Minutes · A2/B1 📖 From Experience I have called four places home: Chittagong, Sydney, Plessis-Trévise near Paris, and Réunion. Each one needed its own…
ReadFalse Friends Between English and French
⏱ 5 Minutes · B1/B2 📖 From Experience When I was reaching French C1 level, English kept ambushing me. I told my neighbour I was embarrassed…
ReadWork and Career Vocabulary: The Words You Need in an Interview
⏱ 5 Minutes · B1/B2 📖 From Experience I have had job interviews on three continents — in English, in French, once in broken Creole in…
ReadWords for Feelings: Beyond Happy and Sad
⏱ 5 Minutes · A2/B2 📖 From Experience When I arrived in Sydney in 2005, I could say I was ‘happy’ or ‘sad’. That was it.…
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