[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…
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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…
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…
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…
CwS: Why you should stop “working hard”
[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…
3 tips and quotes to let go of control and find peace in daily life
[4 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) One thing is particularly frustrating about life: it doesn’t always go the way you want. We have all these painstakingly thought-out plans, we spend hours assessing and analyzing, and life so rudely disregards…
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