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Important Things to Know Before Teaching Korean Students 🇰🇷

After the Japanese, Koreans form our next largest group of students. Besides not using -san with their name, what other...

Introducing ... The New IELTS Materials! (Behind-the-Scenes Interview Included)

You may have noticed that there’s a new series on the block … IELTS Speaking Practice! Let’s go over what...

Are You Correcting These Pronunciation Mistakes? 🗣️ Part I: Vowels & Consonants

Pronunciation is the greatest cause of miscommunication, so we definitely want to help students work on it. However, there are...

3 Steps to Get Stubborn Students off Skype (Featuring Updated Kids Materials)

There are many pros to the new lesson system ... like the fact that it makes our lives as tutors...

Fish Could be Spelled "Ghoti"? — Why English Spelling Doesn't Match Pronunciation

An old joke about English spelling goes, “You can spell fish ‘ghoti.’ Just take the ‘gh’ from ‘enough,’ the ‘o’...

How to Get Shy Students to Warm Up to You 🙈🙉

You’ve probably realized that many of our students are shy. This is partly cultural; East Asians (i.e. most of our...

Smart Expressions for Voicing an Opinion

Have you ever noticed that some students always use the phrase “I think …”? Or maybe you’ve noticed a student...

Important Things to Know Before Teaching Japanese Students 🇯🇵

Japan takes the word, “non-confrontational,” to a new level. At my university in the US, I sometimes attended lectures in...

Why Our Students Lack Confidence

You may have noticed that many of our new students aren’t total beginners. They know vocabulary and grammar — just...

How We've Grown Through Online Tutoring

When we interview tutors for this blog, many of them mention how they've grown personally and professionally. As the saying...

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