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...

I did something crazy — and it completely changed how my students stop translating in their heads.For months, I watched my $38k coaching clients struggle with the same thing. Brilliant people. Hard workers. But they kept thinking in Chinese, then tra...

Here's why your stiff, unnatural English is still happening when you keep trying to follow every grammar rule perfectly.It's not because you're doing it wrong — it's because native speakers break the rules all the time. And nobody...

Happy Monday!This year, I've been trying to make reading sexy again.Because as a mum, I can painfully feel how short attention spans are – for kids AND adults.So I:Scheduled trips to bookstoresGave my child a special allowance for booksUsed audiobook...