A very common question asked by language learners is -
"Is it useful (or useless) to talk to people who are also learning the same language?"
The answer is definitely yes. There are in fact 2 very good reasons why you need to spend as much time as you can speaking the language you are learning. Who you talk to is not really that important, :-) as long as you are talking!!
In this 6 minute long video clip you will better understand why that is the case.
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Why Doing Nothing* Can Be Better Than Doing Something At advanced levels of English it can be problematic knowing where exactly to focus and what to do to keep improving. Getting stuck at more advanced levels for these reasons is much more common than you would expect. For this reason and for others, we have talked
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