Ready to start teaching English in Madrid? Imagine… You’re a fresh-faced, idealistic young English speaker, recently moved to Spain. You’re wearing your best pair of board shorts and
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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
Self-publishing FTW! Big publishing, kiss your ass goodbye…
In case you haven’t heard, publishing as we know it is over. Welcome to the era of self-publishing, where anything goes. Do you have a good idea? Then
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
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
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
Frank McCourt teaches English
One of my biggest pet peeves with educators is the idea that if you’re going to be a teacher, you need to be as boring and neutral as
David Foster Wallace, Demolishing Descriptivism
“Take, for example, the Descriptivism claim that so-called correct English usages such as brought rather than brung and felt rather than feeled are arbitrary and restrictive and unfair
The Scourge of Bilingualism
Years ago, here in Spain, parents and the educational establishment believed that teaching languages to children would make them mentally retarded. A child would never learn to speak
27 Phrasal Verbs Que Debes Conocer (Segunda Edición)
My first book about ESL is out on Amazon Kindle, iBooks and other places. 27 Phrasal Verbs Que Debes Conocer is a bilingual book that helps intermediate level students
