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Are You Teaching Yourself to Translate in Your Head?
Do you translate everything in your head? Because if you do, there’s a good chance that what you’re doing to improve your English is actually making it worse and not better. Watch on. If you are stuck thinking in your native language, translating everything in your head word by word, rule by rule, painstakingly computing […]
Does Reading Aloud Improve Fluency?
Question — “Does reading aloud improve fluency?” Yes and no. It helps with one aspect of fluency, but not with others: People talk about fluency like it’s one simple, single thing that they need to improve. But actually, this isn’t true. Fluency is complex and made up of multiple things happening in your brain (four […]
Helping you Master English, 2 Minutes at a Time
Remember the email I sent last week? About how I write this emails in 4 minutes? Well, today’s is coming in two. Why? Because I need to practise my fluency. What?! But you’re a native speaker, Julian! Why would you need to practise your fluency? See, the thing a lot of people don’t realise is […]