Question someone asked:

“My friend has been taught English very ineffectively for almost two years. How can his English improve to a conversational level without changing school?”

Fact: many of the problems you THINK you have with English aren’t the real problem at all.

Walk down any British high-street and you’ll see things like:

“We have the “cheapest” prices in town”

… which does nothing other than prove a lot of native speakers are TERRIBLE at English.

I see it all the time:

People waste time “practising” English with partners and conversation teachers, then wonder why they can’t speak English well in the real, fast-paced, high-pressure situations they actually need to use English.

Really not sure how this happened…

… but one minute I was mindlessly surfing t’internet, and the next minute I’d registered on the Taipei International Marathon:

You say you want to master English, yet you only turn up and do the work when you feel like it.