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Why you DO NOT need to sound like a native English speaker!

These days, I see too many English language students wanting to sound like a native English speaker. They feel they need to speak with a specific native English accent while using many idiomatic expressions. This is a hugely ambitious goal for someone who was not exposed to the English language before they were two or three years old. In my own case, I started learning English at the age of six, and although I’ve been speaking and teaching English every day for the past 37 years, I s

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March 8, 2021

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Do you wish you spoke English perfectly?

I often hear my students say: I wish I could speak English perfectly! Is this a wish on your mind too? So, what's wrong with this wish? Perfection is an illusion. Setting perfection as a goal is like choosing a cloud as your destination. When we just wish for something, we don't set goals or take action. We just sit and wait for a miracle. What can we do instead? We can change our 'cloud-like wish' into a 'concrete goal' by changing our thought processes in three steps: Ste

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January 30, 2021

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Why you DO NOT need to sound like a native English speaker!

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