How to learn English

Artículos escritos por profesores particulares de Inglés nativos

Shane

Have a read of the below list and we are sure you will find a lot of helpful tips to improve.

  Surround yourself in English. Put yourself in an all English speaking environment where you can learn passively. The best way to learn is through speaking. Practise every day. Make yourself a study plan. Decide how much time a week you are g...
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Juan Ignacio

CONVERSATIONAL SKILLS TOOLS: A NEW METHODOLOGY

Hi,   I would like to start this blog, talking about a very controversial matter, and also very interesting from my point of view. The other day, chatting wih a friend, regarding teaching English, he got a bit upset. During the conversation he...
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Anna

Mansplain, bromance and dude food - new words in the new world

     Writers have always enjoyed inventing words. Lewis Carroll and Roald Dahl, two of our favourite authors, created whole lexicons of new words as part of the worlds they imagined (see previous blog posts). One of the best-lov...
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Anna

How new words are created - hangry, frenemy etc

‘Well, “slithy” means “lithe and slimy”… You see it’s like a portmanteau – there are two meanings packed up into one word.’   In this way, Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass tries to explain some unusual words to the cur...
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Mark

Language learning and methodologies - some ideas to help you.

To help students improve their speaking and listening skills, lessons with 'MiProfe' are based on modern teaching techniques, using some of the best methodologies including direct and communicative practice.  Until the late 1970s, the 'grammar...
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Laura Anne

My TOP TEN survival phrasal verbs in English

Counting down: 10. to break down (a car stops working) 9. to sort out a problem (resolve) 8. to wrap up a meeting (finish) 7. to pass away (die!!) 6. to get over the flu (recover) 5. to look after kids (care for) 4. to give up smoking (quit) 3. to d...
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Paul

Over-experienced to teach English in Private Academies?

Is this possible?   For someone like myself, a dedicated, career teacher, now in my 36th year as a teacher of Spanish/French/EFL, I would say the answer is a definite "yes!"   I don't know about you, but I've used "tefl.com"  on a dai...
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Luka

18 top tips for improving your English/18 consejos para mejorar su Inglés

1. Watch television and films in English  Not only do Britain and the USA produce some of the best TV shows and films in the world, but you can learn English whilst watching them. If you’re still getting to grips with the language at any...
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Paul

The Joys of Being an English Teacher in Spain

Hace poco cumplí 60 añitos, de los cuales llevo 35 como profesor nativo de inglés, altamente cualificado, titulado y experimentado. Dentro de un mes llevaré exactamente 5 años pasando clases particulares...
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Richard

Anyone who has never made a mistake when learning English...

The first thing I always ask my students is permission to correct their mistakes and if they want me to correct as we go through the lesson or if they want me to correct at the end of the lesson.  Here are two of the most common mistakes I have...
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Adrián

Tips to improve your pronunciation (consejos para mejorar tu pronunciación)

Pronunciation is difficult as hell!  This is what you may think when it comes to English, but it is not true. Pronunciation is a hard task to tackle, but it is not impossible. However, you have to find the proper information so that you can kno...
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Kate

Learn a language with only 15 minutes needed per day!

The title of this blog does read like an advert in a newspaper selling a language course but today I want to talk about the advantages of studying for 15 minutes each day. The most typical excuse I hear as a teacher is that there is not enough...
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Richard

English is many things, here are my thoughts!

English as you know is an important language to know but it can be so difficult to learn! To be honest when I became an English teacher I also became a student of English! A strange thing for an English teacher to say but it is honest.   Where...
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