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...
by Adam David Broughton | | Motivation
So the time of year has come round again when many people make new year’s resolutions. Have you made one? I’ve always liked to think about and plan the year ahead but I never used to make resolutions. The last couple of years, however, I have started making them,...
by Adam David Broughton | | Practice
There are millions of things that I don’t know. But I like the fact that there are lots of things that I don’t know. It means there are loads of things for me to learn. I’m a very curious and inquisitive person, and I enjoy finding things that I don’t know and then...
by Adam David Broughton | | Grammar, Language analysis, Practice
There’s the old fable that talks of two friends, Bill and Ben, out camping in the wilderness. They have dinner by the campfire, then head to the tent to sleep for the night. After a while, Bill wakes his friend up and asks, “Look up and tell me what you see”. Ben...
by Adam David Broughton | | Motivation, Practice
I want you to think for a moment about whatever goals you may have in your life right now. What would you like to achieve this week? What about the next six months? The next five years? What about a life goal? Which of these are you working on right now? We all have...
