Do you know why I have been writing you emails?It doesn't matter how you ended up in my world — but you obviously care about language learning. Either for your kids or for yourself.And here's the thing: it requires constant work. Repetition. And EXPO...
Sindy用咗3個星期…由開會「俾人問到口啞」…變成全場最聽得明嗰個之前有次開會老細問佢:「Sindy,你外國返嚟,你聽唔聽到佢講咗啲咩?」全場望住佢佢紅都面晒…因為佢都只係聽到幾成,靠估淨係識笑同話「Sorry,口音有啲重」當初老細請佢係因為佢外國讀大學返嚟而佢條Tea...
你愈努力學英文… 你嘅聆聽能力反而愈差。我專幫香港人將對耳仔由『學校Mode』轉做『真人Mode』。坊間個個叫你睇多啲片、聽多啲歌、儲多啲生字…但你聽咗咁多年,點解仲係聽唔明?因為你嘅問題唔係唔夠輸入係你對耳仔根本未『開竅』你唔需要更多時間你需要嘅係一個方法令...
I used to do ONLY parent coaching.Five years straight. No breaks. Not even during Chinese New Year.I still showed up.Every tantrum. Every meltdown. Every exhausted mom or dad sitting across from me, hoping I had the magic words to fix everything.And...
A student did something crazy last week.She answered an unexpected question at work — without her mind going blank.No searching for the perfect sentence. No "ummm... sorry..." like a broken record.She just used one recovery move. Bought her...
A student told me: "I know the answer in my head. But when I open my mouth? It disappears."Ouch. It stung.But she was right. She didn't need more vocabulary or grammar. She was freezing because she was searching for the perfect sentenc...
Happy Monday! How's your weekend?I started reading The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt last week - and this struck me:"Our children are overprotected in real life but underprotected in the digital world."My thoughts? JESUS CHRIST, that's bloody...
Things got weird when I stopped following conventional English teaching advice.I quit correcting every single grammar mistake (and my students looked at me like I'd lost my mind for a week).Then I ditched forcing them to memorize...
Last week, I had a deep conversation with a DSE English tutor—Ms. Agnes Chan.She's always been curious about what I actually do. So I told her: "I teach Cantonese-speaking people how to jibber jabber in English for a living."She looked at me and went...
My private clients stopped translating mid-sentence once I stopped teaching them grammar rules.No verb tables. No endless vocabulary lists. No "repeat after me" drills. And they started thinking in English faster than my old method ever pro...