Author Archive | Em Casalena

Practice makes perfect…

Use it or lose it…

Yeah, yeah, I have heard that before!

We all know that to improve English, it is important to practice a lot.

But that is not really the most helpful advice for …

The first time I ever studied a language, I had an app for everything.

I had one for writing and reading, another for conversations with native speakers and another for speaking and listening practice.

The results were very effective!…

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.”

This Doug Larson quote is great life advice, but it’s also helpful for anyone who wants to improve English listening skills…

I’d love to take an English class!

Let me just check my schedule…

Oh.

Sometimes, it’s just not possible to take an in-person class to learn English. Between work, family and everything else that we value in our lives, finding …

How handy is it that we can learn just about anything from the palm of our hand?

With just your Android device, you can learn how to cook, how to repair that broken bookshelf and even how to speak …

It feels like hitting a brick wall.

You’re halfway through a sentence in English.

All of a sudden, you realize you need a specific word.

You know what you want to say. But you have no idea how to say …

Want to have your cake and eat it too?

That’s how English speakers say, “have all the good stuff, all at once.”

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work with cake. Once you eat the cake, you don’t have it anymore. You’ve got …