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Posts from ‘October, 2007’

Where are my Spanish flatmates?

One of my rules for learning Spanish is to always live with Spanish speakers. This has been a good rule and resulted in a lot of the improvement. While I’ve stumbled off the optimum language learning path by having an English speaking girlfriend, things are about to get much worse.
Currently I live with 2 Polish [...]

English teaching work in Madrid and Spain

I’ve recently became involved in a project for language teachers in Spain. It’s a website that helps teachers find English teaching work in Spain, with an initial focus on Madrid. The websites been around for a while but I’m helping to promote it and make it more popular.
Our vision is to create an easy-to-use system [...]

English Classes Suck

I came across an article today called “why we don’t like English classes.” Apart from initially amusing me, I found I agreed with a lot of the points in the article. I like to think I’m one of the teachers that are ‘different’, so I thought I’d share a little of my philosophy.
Ok, so as [...]