Declining English proficiency standards among our students has been a major concern for years and apparently we are now keen on bringing in English teachers from India to address the issue. At first I thought I had stumbled onto a satire piece, but a quick check confirmed that I was reading a valid news report from a reliable news portal.

Importing English teachers from India will not solve this problem, because it is yet another short-sighted quick-fix that superficially attempts to cure de...

What is an idiom? An idiom is a phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words.

Learning English idioms should be a part of any decent english course. It's almost impossible to guess the meaning of an idiom, you have to learn it by heart like english grammar or english vocabulary.

It has been quite sometime since I last logged in.

The reason... Have been conducting classes at City College of Business Management, a college in Pudu (near Tung Shin Hospital, for 3 sometimes 4 days a week. Then, got a contract to conduct classes for adults in USJ, and a brief stint for Form 5 students in Taman Sri Gombak.

Right now, I am in the midst of conducting classes for half a dozen Saudi nationals at the premises of Malaysia University Science and Technology (MUST) in Kelana Jaya...

SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.

This view of bilin...

Speech is controlled in your mind by feedback from your hearing and mouth position as much as it is from your memory. If you want to speak fluent English, it is just as important to retrain your tongue as it is to train your memory.

To be effective, however, you must retrain your mind, tongue, and hearing at the same time because they must work together when you speak English.

English is the most widely spoken language in the history of our planet, used in some way by at least one out of every seven human beings around the globe. Half of the world's books are written in English, and the majority of international telephone calls are made in English. Sixty percent of the world's radio programmes are beamed in English, and more than seventy percent of international mail is written and addressed in English. Eighty percent of all computer texts, including all web sites,...

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There are many advantages to being a fluent English speaker. First, you can meet and converse with people from different countries. English has become a common language in the world. Even if you meet a South American or a European person, you might communicate with each other in English.
 
Second, do you know that about 85% of the information on the Internet is in English? That's right. A person who cannot use English is very limited in the computer age. That fact alone might be enough to motiv...

What is Procrastination?

In a nutshell, you procrastinate when you put off things that you should be focusing on right now, usually in favor of doing something that is more enjoyable or that you’re more comfortable doing.

According to psychologist Professor Clarry Lay, a prominent writer on procrastination, procrastination occurs when there’s “a temporal gap between intended behavior and enacted behavior.” That is, procrastination is occurring when there’s a significant time perio...

We polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
A farm can produce produce.
The dump was so full it had to refuse refuse.
The soldier decided to desert in the desert.
The present is a good time to present the present.
At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
The dove dove into the bushes.
I did not object to the object.
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