Artículos escritos por profesores particulares de Inglés nativos

As a teacher, I’d recommend using language apps as supplementary tools on your language-learning journey.  According to The Conversation, 70 million people have already signed up to use the app Duolingo in the hopes of expanding their communicative abilities. From Busuu to Babbel, there are dozens of language-learning apps to help people learn a second language.As a second language Spanish student, I use both Duolin...

Hello all!! This time i am going to do something different to the previous blogs and that is to write in english....I think it is where i feel more comfortable! ;) In today´s blog i want to focus on one of the most important skills ever known: Reading. As you may have noticed, reading is a rich skill where society and the actual reading skill interect. From my personal point of view, it is one of the most fulfilling and worthwhile past-times. Al...

It's wintertime and this only means one thing: my students keep telling me about their toilet problems again. What is it with Spanish speakers? They share too much! Then they keep telling me how they ate lots of jam and had a lot of nice discussions with their families over Christmas. But I can't say I'm innocent of any mistakes! Only today I realized I have been using the word 'grano' for grain in Spanish. I realized this whilst doing the ...

The first thing students will ask is what is this language, this means that you can only speak the language you are studying, for example if you are studying English then you will only speak English and not Spanish is allowed 90% of the time This can often put students off learning another language as they may have scared they will not understand what the teacher is talking about.  But I did not care about this, I did when I was and my fami...

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin's Franklin is sooooo true!!!! I believe that when a student is involved, he/she truly learns. This is part of my methodology of teaching foreign languages. I’ve been teaching for more than 20 years and making the student involved is a key to teaching with success. Not only does the student get motivated, but you, as an instructor, look for different ways to make ...

English is the second most spoken langauage in the world, it is estimated that around over 53 million people speak English. Due to this English is now the main language of certain eceonmic fields such as sicence, avation and information technology. due to such fields adopting English as it main language it is of no suprise that business is also adopting it as their main field.  Therefore i would recomend anyone to learn English as a second ...

Learning a language is all about changing habits in your brain. I think that some techniques that people use like studying long vocabulary lists, memorizing phrasal verbs, even this focus on grammar, is an attempt to short circuit a process which actually takes a long time. It takes a lot of exposure, a lot of reading and listening and, eventually, speaking in order to create new habits.   I have been teaching English in Spain for 7 ye...

The most important thing when you are learning English is to remember the English words.  You can follow 2 methods.First is the repetition-based method, where you learn words by writing them several times or saying them repeatedly until you remember them all. If you patiently follow the process, you will see your vocabulary extended very well.Secondly, you also need have to have a notebook with your own note-taking rules. Each time you note...

Company language-training: How to motivate, empower and engage learners Thousands of companies across of Europe pay for their employees to improve their language (most often English-language) skills. While getting language training for free would seem like a huge source of motivation, training learners who have been forced to attend, or worse, have to attend during inconvenient times including at day-break, during their lunch-hour or at the end ...

How to Use Meet Okay, so, meet and know. These are two commonly confused words. So, to meet is to meet somebody for the first time. Somebody introduces you or you meet that person. “Nice to meet you.” MEET: Meet somebody for the first time, or in an introductions. This is one of the first things you learn in English, and to meet up with somebody, or to meet with somebody is to ge...

Stan Lee, internationally known as the godfather of superheroes and creator of Marvel Comics, has died at the age of 95 in L.A. During his career, he co- created a wide variety of world-famous superheroes such as Superman, The Incredible Hulk and The Justice League. His characters attracted thousands of followers by combining superpowers with human fragility and morality. The son of two lower-class Jewish immigrants, Lee started working as an a...

Are you talking to me? I said are you talking to me? There’s no one else here, you must be talking to me? How many times have you misused these 4 words? I speak English, I talk to my friends, he told me a secret, you know what I’m saying? If you’re having difficulty with using these words, don’t worry, we’re going to resolve that for you guys right now. In this article we are going to show you common prepositions use with each of them,...

After living in Spain and teaching English for the past three years, I have seen the struggle of grasping a new language from two perspectives. I have been the teacher, slowly and patiently repeating the same basic phrases. I have also been the student, sat mute at a table, lost and frustrated at my inability to converse. With technology making the world that much smaller and global capitalism striding it's relentless path, languages are more im...

There are so many reasons for learning a second language. To mention just three of them: globalized world, business and traveling. As we know, English language is a modern and most spoken language in the world. And it opens  a world of opportunities if you just choose to learn it.We live in a fast growing world and it becomes more and more competitive so that we need to speak and learn a second language, and why not the business language? Y...