Why Thinking in Sentences Matters More Than Vocabulary

Language Without Illusions Many language learners believe that speaking more automatically leads to fluency. The idea sounds logical:If you want to speak better, you simply need to speak more. So learners search for conversation clubs, language exchanges, and endless speaking practice. But after months — sometimes even years — many discover something frustrating. They are […]

And Why I Tell My Teachers Not to Continue Someone Else’s Lesson At first glance, language teaching often looks like a simple process. A student studies with one teacher.Later the student changes the teacher.The new teacher asks: “What did you study before?” Then the teacher continues exactly from that point. This approach sounds logical. But […]

At some point in almost every discussion about language learning, someone says a familiar phrase: “What method do you use? The communicative method?” It sounds professional.It sounds academic.And it is almost always meaningless. Because the idea that a serious language school operates on one single teaching method is a myth. Real teaching does not work […]