Over the years, I have worked with professionals who had already tried courses, apps, books, teachers and different techniques to improve their English. They had accumulated a considerable amount of information and experience, but often without seeing the change in their ability to use English that they actually needed. Their next question was often: “Maybe […]
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At some point, many professionals who use English start to think that the next stage of improvement is to sound more native. Sometimes they say it directly: “I want to sound like a native speaker.” Sometimes it appears in less explicit ways. They want to get rid of their accent. They want to sound more
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“Learn a language like a child.” It is one of the most common ideas in language-learning marketing. We are told to play games, absorb language naturally, stop worrying about grammar, avoid analysis, and let the language “sink in.” The promise is usually appealing: if we can recreate the conditions in which children learn, perhaps adults
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