by Adam David Broughton | | Practice, Psychology of learning
As many of you already know, I’m learning to play the piano. Language and music have a lot more in common than you think. In fact, they share some of the same processes in the brain. The parts of the brain which process individual words and vocabulary are the same...
by Adam David Broughton | | Motivation, Practice
All things that give the results we desire function by following a system. A car engine, the weather and of course, learning. Each thing in the system process directly influences the next. One thing happens, it gives a result, and it starts a chain reaction of events....
by Adam David Broughton | | Grammar, Practice
There are a few things that many English learners try to avoid for as long as possible. The first thing that comes to mind is phrasal verbs. The second: question tags. Can you live without them? Well, yes, you kind of can. Can you make good progress without them? No,...
by Adam David Broughton | | Practice
If you’re going to practise listening for general understanding as opposed to listening for specific information, then films and series is was one of the best ways to do this. All you need is a TV. And let’s face it, who doesn’t have a TV? However, many English...
by Adam David Broughton | | Practice, Vocabulary
Usain Bolt once famously said that the 100m sprint is easy. The hard part is the four hours of intense training that his coach puts him through every day. It’s everything the spectators don’t see that’s tough. Of course, it’s what happens out of the olympic stadium...
by Adam David Broughton | | Practice
There’s no doubt about it, some mistakes are more common than others. And some mistakes are more common for speakers of a particular language. In my ten years in Spain, I must have corrected the mistake ‘people is’ at least three and a half thousand times. That’s a...
