Day: 14 May 2012

  • Five Tips for Native Speakers

    Having just completed another very successful Intensive Programme in Lithuania, I witnessed once again the challenges of working in a second language. As a native speaker and a teacher on the programme, I was acutely aware of the huge extra efforts it takes to understand the different variations of English which are common in the…

  • Disappearing women

    While making a website documenting an Intensive two week programme with 35 student participants from Poland, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, the UK, the Czech Republic and Lithuania, I and my 6 students suddenly noticed that on the website we had been building for three days there were no images of women except in group photos. Perhaps…