You WILL make mistakes
Hey guess what?! When you speak (ANY language), you will make mistakes. You will... Forget even the easiest grammar structures. Make...
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Your English Space
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I'm not ready
I hear this phrase, "I'm not ready", quite often from clients, or potential clients. Perhaps I invite them to conversation club but they...
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Your English Space
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Two incredibly powerful words: what if...?
I recently watched a video with this title. It wasn't at all connected to learning a language, but I think it is brilliant. Have you ever...
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Your English Space
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Block 5: Overcoming bad experiences
"I hate English." "English is impossible." "Studying English is SO boring." You'd be surprised how often I hear these phrases. And you'd...
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Your English Space
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Block 4: "Lack" of time
How many times have you said, "I'll do _______ when I have more time"? How many times have you actually done _________ when you had more...
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Your English Space
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Block 3: Language Level Fever
We're going to take a trip down memory lane for a second. I don't know how it was in your middle school or high school, but in my high...
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Your English Space
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Block 2: Lack of Motivation
Do you set goals for yourself that you don’t achieve, and then just give up because you think learning English is too difficult? I've...
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Your English Space
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Block 1: The Fear of Making Mistakes
Do you often keep silent in a conversation because you want to have the perfect response, but by the time you formulate it in your head...
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Your English Space
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5 "language learning blocks" that are keeping you from improving
In last week's post, we talked about some common difficulties that many language learners have, such as listening, speaking, remembering...
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Your English Space
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Language learning difficulties
New feature! You can now LISTEN to my posts, how cool is that? Do you find learning languages (in this case, English) difficult? Or did...
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Your English Space
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Your language goals for 2023-2024
Welcome back! I hope you've had a good summer and have been able to relax and take some time off. I've had a lovely month, I spent most...
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Your English Space
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2 years down...many more to go!
I don't know about you, but it feels like just yesterday when I wrote this post, celebrating one year of YES and giving you a bit of a...
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Your English Space
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Mastering the Future Tense: A Guide to Clear Communication
Week 7 is finally here! You did it! This week we'll be focusing on the future tense. It should be a nice relief after two weeks of the...
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Your English Space
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Mastering the Present Perfect Continuous: A Guide to Clear Communication
Week 6 is here! Only one more week to go in this mini grammar revision course! If you've missed any of the previous posts in the course,...
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Your English Space
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Mastering the Present Perfect Simple: A Guide to Clear Communication
Good for you! You've made it halfway through your free Summer Grammar Revision Course! If you've missed any of the previous posts, check...
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Your English Space
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Mastering the Past Continuous: A Guide to Clear Communication
Week 4 of your Summer Grammar Review is here! If you haven't been following, make sure to read these three posts so that you are up to...
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Your English Space
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Mastering the Past Simple
Week 3 of your summer grammar tenses revision is all about the past. The past simple tense is one of the most fundamental tenses, because...
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Your English Space
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Mastering the Present Continuous: A Guide to Clear Communication
This week in our 7 week review series, we're focusing on the present continuous, which has many other uses than just to talk about "right...
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Your English Space
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Mastering the Present Simple Tense: A Guide to Clear Communication
Over the next 7 weeks, we'll be doing a bit of grammar review, think of it as your crash course for the summer. This week, we'll be...
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Your English Space
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Talking about movement
Nope, not verbs. Prepositions, again! I could go on forever about them, there are so many things to explain, but today we're focusing...
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