A friend of mine has an enormous collection of English textbooks and phrasebooks at home, and when I flip through them, I’m struck with how perfectly useless most
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Top 3 ways that teaching English abroad inflates your ego
Ah, the life of an expat English teacher. If you’ve been here a while, you’ve already realized that teaching English in Spain isn’t going to make you a
Social Media Manual for Online Educators
As social media creeps into every facet of our lives, many teachers and educators are interested in incorporating these new technologies into their lessons. In order to help
Inglés para pervertidos (English for Perverts)
I’ll be the first to admit that I sometimes fantasize about writing something much more interesting than a bunch of dry books about grammar. Writing Inglés para Principiantes
Conversation with my trilingual girlfriend
Things that happen when you’ve been living abroad way too long… Girlfriend: Ahora que estamos de vacaciones, voy a aprovechar para hablarte en inglés. Me: Okay. Let’s do
Conversation in the language school #3: Who’s the Governator of Texas?
A conversation from the language school in Madrid, where I work… Student 1: Who was the best governator of Texas? Me: Well, um… Governator is a term that’s
Cómo ligar en inglés – Frases para ligar que sí funcionan
¿Cómo ligar en inglés? Ojalá supiera… Pero cuidado. Que hay muchos malos consejos sobre el ligoteo por ahí. A saber… Una importante empresa internacional de enseñanza de idiomas
False Anglicisms in Spanish: friki, footing, puenting, feeling and more
Spanish people use a lot of false anglicisms. And today we’re going to talk about a few of the more prominent ones. The other day I wrote an
Is spelling fascist?
Readers, I’m sick of this. This fascist spelling, propagated by (white, male, middle-class) dictionary editors. It’s bad enough that our public schools are teaching people “proper” English and
Linguistics Pro Tip #1: How to deal with extreme prescriptivists
If you spend long enough in a liberal arts environment or anywhere language is studied, you’ll certainly run into a few extreme prescriptivists. The basic prescriptivist mindset runs
