Category: Psychology of learning

“I’d like to practice English and learn new things when I’m at home, but I don’t know how or where to start.” There’s not a day without somebody saying that to me. Students, friends, random people—all of them seem to be facing the same obstacle. They are not capable of finding the right methodology to…

Picture yourself arriving in an English-speaking country. You are absolutely thrilled to be there, as you’re about to communicate with native English speakers! You can already see yourself casually chatting with local people—but things do not go as planned. You are not even out of the airport that you start being filled with terror hearing people around…

I’ve heard it hundreds of times. It’s typically a variation of the following: “I’ve studied English for years but I’m incapable of speaking it correctly.” People tend to have a love/hate relationship with English. They usually like the way it sounds and understand how important it has become in recent years. But they also feel…