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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 same time, it is exciting to see what I can now learn from my failure – and it would be great to know that I helped some language learners or teachers out there. If you manage to avoid my mistakes – or if you recognize them and step into them more consciously next time – then this post will be a success.
Let’s get to it.

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3 Unexpected Lessons From 1 Language Teaching Conference

Last year, my first IATEFL conference nearly killed me. This year I did it again. April is truly the cruelest of months for English teachers. If you want to know what I learned at IATEFL in Liverpool, read on: I’m hoping to make this one useful for all languages, learners and teachers alike. Unexpected, but useful.

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100 Languages of Britain – and why nobody really cares

NO CHAOS 

This is a bit of a rant. And the position of the ranter should be pretty obvious. I can promise to get you through several key concepts for language and culture, though – so not all is vitriol and bile 🙂 Stay tuned and tell me what you think.

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Best Translators and their language learning secrets

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The accepted wisdom is this: when learning a foreign language, translation should be avoided and abandoned early. Tonight, I want to look at the other approach.

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Why You Should Move to a Bilingual Country (And How To Do It)

It started with Rick Santorum.

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Connecting the Dots: My Ride with English

Note: this post is a response to Vicky Loras’s blog challenge. It was fun to write – hopefully fun to read as well? Thanks for the inspiration, Vicky!