[3 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) There’s a scene in Avatar The Last Airbender (the fantastic original series — not the sorry excuse of a movie) where one of the villains decides to become good. At one…
Author: sadamyova
Born in Slovakia, raised in Canada. Online English teacher, editor, copywriter, and translator. You’ll find me holed up in a bookstore, typing in a cafe, or immersed in a philosophical debate.
How to quickly get over an emotional slump
[3 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) First of all, to my readers learning English, I should clarify the word slump: a sudden fall. (So, a period where you have “low” or negative emotions). But actually, this post isn’t just…
Reflections: What science fiction and video games have taught me about life
[3 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) If you had a look at my bookshelf, you’d find a pretty diverse range of genres: adventure, biographies, non-fiction, essays, science-fiction, romance… but in a way, I consider all of them to be…
How to build consistency with habits, Part 2
[3 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) This post is a continuation of the last one — How to build consistency with habits, Part 1. If you haven’t read it yet, I’d suggest you start there and then come back…
How to build consistency with new habits, Part 1
[3 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) If you’re on this blog, you’re someone interested in personal development — which means you have tried building good habits in the past, which means you’ve for sure struggled with building good habits…
CwS: Does learning languages get easier the more of them you know?
[3 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) Today, I got into a discussion with one of my students about learning languages. She was telling me how much more confident and fluent she has become since she started taking lessons and…
Reflections: Manifestation explained from an “outsider’s” perspective
[5 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) Have you ever looked something up from sheer curiosity, and ended up going down a deep rabbit hole? That’s been my journey with manifestation so far. I’ve always known about the concept, and…
Reflections: Could our weaknesses just be laziness?
[1 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) Anyone who has gone anywhere with me knows that I am horrible at directions. And I mean, completely hopeless. I not only don’t know where to go — I usually set off in…
Reflections: When unexpected events in our lives help others
[2 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) I heard a podcast the other day which was talking about decision making. It was a three-part series, with the first part delving into fate versus planning. In particular, the host Hilary talked…
CwS: How to turn rudeness into kindness
[1 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) What does CwS mean? It stands for Conversations with Students. This means this post is based on a thoughtful discussion I had with one of my incredible students as part of an English lesson with…
LINGUISTIC MUSINGS 