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Perfect is the Enemy of Good

18 April 2014 by Marc

Some students are patient and others are very impatient. Some students are diligent and others want to communicate as much as possible and as quickly as possible. The ones I see improve most quickly are the impatient ones. Why? Hungry for language Impatient students are hungry for language and they will try to soak up … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Speaking Tagged: good, learning, perfect, study

Edit Overused Words in Your Writing

30 January 2014 by Marc

When students ask me how to improve their writing the first thing I tell them is to read more and copy the style. After that, I usually tell them to change ‘good’/’better’/’best’ a few times and delete or change ‘very’. Why? They are overused and – most of the time – not precise enough. Is … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Output, Vocabulary, Writing Tagged: best, better, good, overused, very, words

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