Teachers often find other teachers who share their passion.
Marc was born and brought up in Ireland but has moved to Thailand, while Miranda was born and brought up in England and moved to France.
Moving to another country forces people to see language in a different way. As teachers, it showed us the huge limitation of traditional teaching methods.
At school student are taught a second language – but in a totally different way to how their learn their mother tongue. There are many problems with the way that languages are taught at school and this site is all about filling in the gaps that every student should have been taught.
We have several goals:
Goal 1
Get everyone listening! We learn our first language by listening and repeating. Grammar and a huge vocabulary are completely useless in conversation if you can’t understand what the other person is saying. Listening, listening and more listening!
Goal 2
Students should learn words and phrases that they actually want to use. “The mouse is under the table” or “the rabbit is brown” are not very helpful for most people.
Goal 3
Our students are going to be confident enough to speak – because we believe in them and we know that with a little bit of work and a lot of listening you can ALL do this!
Before you start click here to learn about the system and how to use this site.