by Adam David Broughton | | Language analysis
Once upon a time there was a young man called Graham, who lived in a tiny little flat on the outskirts of the city. Now Graham was hardly the tidiest man around. He rarely cleaned the house or tidied up his things, only did the washing up a couple of times a week, and...
by Adam David Broughton | | Language analysis
In my interview with Zoë Owen, she tells the story of when she was once in a café ordering breakfast when the waiter gave her a strange look and laughed. She thought she was ordering a standard Madrid breakfast of porra with coffee. A slip of the tongue meant that she...
by Adam David Broughton | | Language analysis
I’m not a writer. But I do write every day. It was tough in the beginning. Really tough. Going from zero words per week to a few thousand required discipline (and early mornings). There’s something really annoying about writing. Something that really bugs me. After I...
by Adam David Broughton | | Grammar, Language analysis, Vocabulary
My poor Spanish students always complain that “prepositions don’t make sense in English!” They have a hard time learning them, and I’m not surprise to be honest. Not because they don’t make sense (they do make sense), but rather because they’ve been learning them the...
by Adam David Broughton | | Grammar, Language analysis, Vocabulary
Do you remember the first time you went abroad? How about the first time you drove a car? Your first kiss? The first time you do anything that has an impact on your life, you remember it forever. Not only do you remember it forever, but you also have very complete...
by Adam David Broughton | | Language analysis, Psychology of learning
There’s a mansion in San José, California called Winchester House. Now a tourist attraction, it was built by the widow of the famous gun magnate William Winchester and was, at the time, the biggest mansion in America. It has 161 rooms, with 40 bedrooms, 47 fireplaces,...
