First of all, “Wow! Thank you!” for all the fantastic comments on the How Long Do *You* Think It Takes To Get Fluent? question. There have been lots of personal stories, research based insights, a few (quite shocking!) surprises (decades to learn a language!) and also a few controversial things too. 🙂 I’ll write a full post about…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/whats-your-name-picture-cards-grammar-efficiency/
I asked this question on Facebook and was blown away by the answers. So I’d love to ask you! How long do *you* think it takes to get fluent in a foreign language? Just put up your answer in the comments. For the purpose of this question, take “fluent” as being “understand most things you…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/help-please-how-long-do-you-think-it-takes-to-get-fluent/
15 years ago I would always recommend teachers to just teach speaking and listening. “You can leave the reading till junior high school.” I would say. The reason? Simply because 15 years ago children’s primary mode of communication, by far, was speaking and listening. TV and telephones, the most popular media for children and adults…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/whats-with-all-this-emphasis-on-reading-all-of-a-sudden-phonics-workbook-update/
It’s not *quite* finished yet (just a few more graphics to do) but I figured quite a few of you would be doing “What’s your name?” this week so I just uploaded a new updated version of the software into the VIP forum. Do let me know what you think (things you like or things…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/software-update-whats-your-name-song/
Elizabeth just sent in this great link to the “.b” project, which is working wonders with teenagers and their attention spans. Here are a couple of very cool techniques that you can use straight away, whether you have a class of 4 or 40!
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/attention-skills-for-your-teenagers/
First of all, do check the date of Monday’s post about the Space Station! Or the “Scratch N Sniff” Flashcards 🙂 (The Russia workshops and TED talk are all real though.) Back to today…. here’s a video I did over the weekend for the new “I’m sorry!” song. What do you think? ( I’m always amazed that…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/sneak-preview-new-im-sorry-song-in-video/
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