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Something to Remember about Mistakes

25 July 2014 by Marc

You will definitely make mistakes when learning a language and you will definitely learn from mistakes. Keep them in mind but don’t worry about them.

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: a2, b1, fail, failure, mistakes, motivation

3 Steps to Avoid Mistakes when Speaking

4 July 2014 by Marc

Making mistakes is part of learning a language but you don’t want to make mistakes all the time, you want to be as accurate as possible as often as possible. Here are three steps to help you improve your accuracy.

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Posted in: Output, Speaking Tagged: accuracy, errors, mistakes

Four Costly Business English Mistakes

21 April 2014 by Marc

Usually I tell my students, “If you make a mistake, nobody dies.” For most people, English mistakes in a conversation don’t have significant effects and in business conversations you are probably fine. However, there are four kinds of mistakes that business people routinely make and may cost them money. Spelling Mistakes This should be easy … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Output, Speaking, Writing Tagged: business, errors, mistakes

Confusing Vocabulary Explained

18 February 2014 by Marc

These are some words that students often find confusing. I hope this post helps you to tell the difference. If you have any other ideas, leave a comment. Hard / Hardly Hard (adverb)

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Posted in: Vocabulary Tagged: commonerrors, complex, complicated, confusing, hard, hardly, mistakes

Even If and Even Though

17 January 2014 by Marc

A lot of false shortcuts are taught to English students. Lots of words and phrases are said to be “the same” because it is quicker to teach them to beginning and intermediate learners without explaining them. ‘Even if’ and ‘even though’ are not the same but teachers often say they are. In this first example, … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Grammar Tagged: commonerrors, even, if, mistakes, though

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