Does the following sound familiar? You are reading an article. You find a new word. You check its meaning in your language. You think it’s interesting and you want to learn it. You add it to your vocabulary list in your notebook (document, excel sheet etc) with the translation next to it. Done.   We […]

There is something I have noticed with a number of company clients when doing online presentations. I have seen presenters often saying their name and title, product or service, or other job related lingo in an unclear way.   What do I mean by “unclear”? “Unclear” here means usually pronouncing them too fast. And why does it matter?   If you say a thing so

Feeling insecure in English conversations, especially with fluent or native speakers?   Today I’ll talk about the importance of discovering your current roadblocks, and working on them. 🚧 I’ll tell you about a student who managed to do it earlier this year. This student is a successful brand manager at a national level. She had

Do you have trouble hearing the difference between CAN and CAN’T in fluent speech? Don’t worry. The difference is often times barely audible, or not at all. Yet, spotting the difference is crucial, as CAN and CAN’T have opposite meanings. 😀   How do fluent speakers know if someone is using the affirmative “CAN” or the negative form “CAN’T”? And how

We should make it easy for our audience to follow what we say in meetings and presentations. They should not spend too much energy on constantly “decoding” our pronunciation. Instead, they should concentrate on what matters: the information content. One way to do this is using word linking, which creates a more natural flow of