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Part 4: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills

If you’ve been following this series on improving your listening skills in English, then you have already been practicing with subtitles, keeping a notebook to expand your vocabulary, and have checked out the awesome listening website, YouGlish. Part Four: Talk Back Listening to TV, movies, and videos and studying vocabulary is a great step toContinueContinue reading “Part 4: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills”

Part 3: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills

I hope you’ve been enjoying this series on how to improve your listening comprehension! Check out Part One here, and Part Two here. Now on to Part Three! Instead of a strategy, this part revolves around a great listening resource. Part Three: YouGlish After my first two strategies, you’ve been using the Subtitle Strategy, andContinueContinue reading “Part 3: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills”

Part 2: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills

If you read my last blog post, then you already know why listening skills in another language can be difficult and frustrating to improve. But luckily for language learners everywhere, there are some easy tips you can follow in order to improve your listening comprehension. Read on for part two of my five-part series onContinueContinue reading “Part 2: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills”

Part 1: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills

Listening to speakers in another language can be challenging at first. Often, the pronunciation is different than you expect, due to differences from your native language, the dialect of the speaker, or the situation. For example, if “r” in your language is pronounced like an English speaker’s “h”, every time you hear or pronounce anContinueContinue reading “Part 1: 5-Part Guide to Improving Your English Listening Skills”

See ya: 9 ways to say goodbye

Last week, the school where I teach in-person closed, and everyone at the school – teachers, staff, and students – spent several days celebrating and saying goodbye (and also being a little sad!). Whether formal or informal, there are many ways to say ‘goodbye’ in English. Here are just nine! 1. bye / bye byeContinueContinue reading “See ya: 9 ways to say goodbye”