https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZe32aUfdHs&feature=youtu.be%20 Speaking English and meeting new people can be difficult for the ESL speaker. Check out our short video that gives great tips on meeting new people by speaking English. Facebook Twitter Linkedin
Continual isolation from humans can negatively impact the long-term communication skills of young adults and their ability to be happy, according to John McGory of the American Speech Company. “Unhappiness is clearly growing worldwide the longer social isolation continues. Parents and friends need to make a concentrated effort to make sure the young adults in …
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“Do Americans really think that freedom trumps everything, even life?” My friend, Qiong Zheng, asked me this perplexing question this morning on WeChat, China’s omnipresent social media platform, along with a photo of Americans holding guns while congregating in front of Michigan’s state capitol to protest that state’s lockdown. Jane (her English name) teaches accounting …
China’s Hubei Province and Ohio joined the Sister Cities Program as partners in 1979 through the efforts of Governor James Rhodes. The two areas have shared cultural and business opportunities through the years. Now we share the coronavirus. How do Ohio and the Hubei Province stack up against one another in dealing with the coronavirus outbreak? …
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I live in Wuhan. Few had ever heard of the city before last week. Now it sits at the center of the worldwide coronavirus scare. Thursday morning, January 23rd, the news that Wuhan closed all public transportation in, out, and around the city came out, setting the city into a coronavirus panic. Realizing you can’t …
English-speaking excellence can seem like walking on a tightrope. The wrong word, like the wrong movement, sends you spinning out of control. Balancing words, emotions, people, and ideas require a keen grasp of both the here and now as well as who you are as a person. Now some consider being “balanced” as boring or …
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The new world economy uses English. If you sell internationally then this requires Chinese, Indian, Korean, or other international employees who speak English well. English is required for international business success. How do your people do? Do they communicate well or chase customers away? I am finishing my sixth year teaching oral English at Jianghan …
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Holiday season is upon us. The biggest change to a holiday dinner isn’t vegan turkey but the complete addiction to mobile technology. English-speaking improvement takes a hit when the phones come out. Instead of dinner talk with long-lost aunts, uncles, and cousins, the ubiquitous head-down pose of people grabbing a glance at social media feeds …
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Improving English takes effort and a plan. John McGory’s new book provides a unique strategy: using yinyang to improve English. The key to yinyang is accepting balance. Good English or bad English are not two things but one. An excellent English speaker realizes the importance of both sides of a feeling, thought, or emotion. “Take …
