This category covers miscellaneous topics, including punctuation, pronunciation, and even the blog author’s journal, which features her thoughts, stories, experiences, and more.
Welcome to our new series of posts dedicated to informal conversation! In this series, we’ll be joined by Chad (👨🏽) and Ivy (👩🏼), a married couple who discuss all kinds of topics in their typical informal and lighthearted style. These two are chill, effective communicators, and there’s so much English we can learn from them.
Since it’s almost Christmas, let’s see what plans they’re making to celebrate one of the most fun holidays of all!
If you are one of those people who think their first language is much richer than the target language, English, this post is for you. No, it’s not written to claim that English is “richer” or better than your mother tongue. In fact, comparing languages is hardly right because each language is fabulously rich and wonderful in its own way. It’s like comparing varieties of strawberries—they’re all different, but they’re all strawberries – sweet, juicy, and delicious.
What we want to do in this article is show you some things that English can do that some other languages may not be able to. Please don’t be too critical if you find some of these wonders less impressive. You might think, “So what? It’s the same in my language!” If that’s the case, chances are you speak a Germanic language. English, a West Germanic language, shares similarities with its “siblings” like German, Dutch, and Danish. Nevertheless, read on. We hope this post will encourage everyone to look at English from a new perspective and discover something they haven’t noticed before.
Writing and posting articles tagged “my diary” still feels a little tricky for me. Not just because it’s something new and not typically done on this website, but primarily because it’s personal. And the reason I’d like to continue going this personal here on my blog, which is primarily devoted to English as a second language, is that I believe what I have to share relates to learning in a broad, meaningful sense. Learning a language is just part of the lifelong learning journey many of us are fortunate to be on.
So, the purpose of this blog entry is to encourage you, my reader, to think about how our priorities change over time and how beautiful that change can be. To put this into a more practical, language-learning perspective, I’ll focus on the importance of self-acceptance and giving ourselves some slack when undertaking a challenge as big as mastering a foreign language. If you find this aspect particularly interesting, please check my post “Finding Joy in Growth, Not Perfection.” Now, let’s dive into what I actually mean by a new beginning.
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