What mistakes do you usually make when learning a foreign language? I am a Cambridge certified English teacher. I have worked with many Czech students since I started my teaching career in 2000. In this…
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If you have ever travelled to the USA, you will probably be familiar with signs such as this. These are warnings to salesmen, hawkers or peddlers – anyone who might approach unannounced and try to…
Fossilized Errors 2
What mistakes do you usually make when learning a foreign language? I am a Cambridge certified English teacher. Since 2000 I have worked with many Czech students. In this blog post, I’d like to share…
A Fashion for Passion
Are you a fellow fan of talk radio? If so, you are probably familiar with the concept outlined in the heading to this blog. You know thedrill. Someone comes on the airwaves and proclaims their ‘passion’…
Mind Your Own Business
When I was studying for my Master’s, I came across a definition of amanagement consultant as “Someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time. And then keeps the watch”. This tongue-in-cheek assessment may be…
Fossilized Errors 1
Why do we need to correct students? If we don’t correct student errors, they will continue to make them and this could become ingrained because they think they are right. This is known as a…
A Beautiful Princess and Ivan the Fool
My grandmother was Czech. She always said that in the days of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy the Czechs adopted many German qualities. For example punctuality and the ability to farm economically. What they have not learned is…
Where There’s a Will …
Being an English lawyer living in Prague means being very busy at work. This also means having almost no time for oneself, let alone forlearning a foreign language. Howard is one of the students, however,…
My Hobby is Genealogy
I have been teaching English for many years, but before that time I worked as an editor. I like both activities very much and do both as much as I can. I have always had…
Becoming International
I was born in the lake district of New York state, one of those places of incomparable and majestic beauty on this earth. When I was 7 years old, my family moved to Colorado, at the foot…
Poetry & E-Learning
Recently I attended the International Academic Conference on Education, Teaching and E-learning in Prague. I met a bevy of great experts. One of them was Janusz Zalewski, Ph.D., a professor of Computer Science from Florida Gulf Coast University….
Xiaoming’s Adventure
Having taught Chinese for three years, I have gained much teaching experience and made many international friends. I feel very lucky to be a Chinese teacher as it is an ideal job for me. I…