Usually, overseas trips are quite exciting. You are filled with pleasant emotions and anticipation of a great adventure. But at the same time, there is a fear of how to…
Studying for any exam can be quite a daunting prospect. What makes a test even more stressful, is when you’re not fully prepared for it. Preparation is everything when it…
This post is from Paul, an English teacher who lives in Argentina. Paul writes on behalf of Language Trainers, a language teaching service which offers foreign-language level tests and other…
Self-learners can feel very lonely. It’s hard to gather motivation to persevere faced with convoluted grammatical concepts, and tones of vocabulary piling up in your SRS database. Over time you…
We’ve all used a dictionary, whether it was to look up an unfamiliar word in our mother tongue, or a translation in a foreign language. But, like any tool, dictionaries…
You’ve worked your butt off to get to where you are, and now there’s that gigantic platform gawking at you. Your hands are clammy, and your throat is parched. The…