by Scott Dreyer | Aug 3, 2022 | Vocabulary
In English, many words are made up of word stems. As we often say at DreyerCoaching, it is impossible to learn all the English words. However, it is possible to learn all the word stems, and when you know those stems and see or hear a new word, you can then have a...
by Scott Dreyer | Aug 3, 2022 | Vocabulary
There are many cases where the Chinese language has one word for something but English has more than one, and vice versa. For example, as explained in this post, the English words “shade” and “shadow” have quite different meanings, but are...
by Scott Dreyer | Jan 21, 2022 | Vocabulary
In a DreyerCoaching Teacher Team meeting the other day, one teacher told us a story about when she was working with an adult student. To respect his privacy, we will call him “Wayne.” (This is the same “Wayne” mentioned in his story...
by Scott Dreyer | Dec 3, 2021 | Vocabulary
At DreyerCoaching, we do not just believe learning a language is a job to do. We believe it should be fun, like palindromes are! And we also believe, if you have fun doing it, you will do better at it than if you do not have fun! 在...
by Scott Dreyer | Jul 22, 2021 | Vocabulary
A couple in the Hsinchu, Taiwan Science Park enrolled their children in a DreyerCoaching Summer Camp a few years ago. Pleased with the results, the dad (to respect his privacy, we will call him “Wayne”) then joined DreyerCoaching classes too to improve his...
by Scott Dreyer | Feb 23, 2021 | Vocabulary
Amazing! Lucy is a high school student in Beijing, China, now in her second year with DreyerCoaching. In early 2021, she entered an English speech competition against 380,000 (!) other contestants from all across China! From that 380,000, she advanced to a round...
