10 blogs to learn English with

We’ve already brought you our pick of the best podcasts, TV series, and even songs to learn English with. “So, what’s next?” we hear your cry. Blogs? Oh, okay then. From easy-reads and inspiring travel bloggers to blogs dedicated to perfecting your grammar, here are our top recommendations for learning English with a blog.

1. The Londoner

The Londoner is one of the UK’s most popular blogs; Rosie covers all things lifestyle, from sharing recipes and style tips to chatting about her (absolutely gorgeous) dog while they explore London. It’s an engaging read with a mixture of complex sentences and detailed descriptions – perfect for intermediate English speakers. But, be forewarned, you’ll get insta-envy from her photos of beautiful clothes and mouthwatering meals.

2. Deliciously Ella

If you haven’t heard of Deliciously Ella, where have you been?! Ella’s blog shares her amazing meal ideas and baking experiments with plant-based foods and non-processed ingredients and has inspired millions of English readers to take better care of their bodies. The best part about it? Eating well doesn’t just mean “eating green”: you’ll find just as many sweet treats as savory dishes here.

3. BBC Learning English

Since the beginning of time, BBC TV and radio presenters have spoken in perfect British English, and BBC articles have been written with impeccable grammar. So, who better to learn English with? The BBC’s Learning English blog has hundreds of easy videos, articles, and free exercises to help anyone from beginners to near-native English speakers perfect their grasp of the language.

4. World of Wanderlust

You’ll be grabbing your passport and packing a bag before you can say “I love this travel blog and it’s stunning photography.” From the best places to eat to must-visit secret spots, World of Wanderlust is full of insider tips to help you plan your next trip. Covering everywhere from the USA to Costa Rica and Japan, it’s a great blog for culture vultures keen to effortlessly practice their English by reading for hours.

5. Hannah Gale

This self-titled lifestyle blog by Hannah will keep your colloquial British English in tip-top shape. She’s a very chatty ex-journalist and her relatable posts discuss everything from her relationship to her favorite books and what’s in her wardrobe this season. Without even realizing it, you’ll be digesting new phrases and fun slang that aren’t taught in class.

6. Perfect English Grammar

With a seemingly endless collection of short, interactive English grammar exercises, this fantastic blog will test you on a range of topics from irregular verbs to your use of the perfect tense. The blog’s interactive format makes tricky grammar rules fun; but, to make sure you stick with it, it’s probably best to finish each session with a chocolate-based reward.

7. Hand Luggage Only

This energetic and excitable travel blog follows two best friends from Cambridge University as they write their way around the world. Yaya and Lloyd have enthusiasm in spades, taking their cameras and beaming smiles everywhere they go. After reading just a few posts, you’ll be dying to practice writing in the first person in an English travel blog of your own.

8. English Grammar Revolution

Sentence diagrams… these certainly don’t sound like many people’s idea of fun, but, over at the English Grammar Revolution blog, Elizabeth firmly believes they’re an easy and fun(ish) way to nail tricky English grammar. While you certainly won’t find yourself scrolling for a whole evening here, Elizabeth’s passion is infectious; just a few minutes reading her blog regularly can supercharge your learning.

9. The Young Adventuress

With hilarious, honest confessions and quirky stories filling the pages of The Young Adventuress, it’s easy to spend hours reading this one. But, there’s another reason we love this blog: she’s taken the plunge and moved abroad – and she loves it! This American now calls New Zealand home, so there’s a whole host of great advice about relocating to another country. If you need some inspiration before booking that study abroad program you’ve always fancied, look no further.

10. The EF GO Blog!

Por Emma Victoria en aprendizaje de idiomas 

Tomado de: https://www.ef.com/wwen/blog/language/10-blogs-learn-english/

NLP: LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

How do you use NLP to learn a foreign language? Sure there are magic tricks, specific ways of using the brain. But an understanding of learning, the levels of learning and the emotions with which those may come, is the real magic trick.

Unconscious Incompetence: this may be the point that you don’t even know the foreign language exists, and you also can’t speak it. But then you figure at some point, that you would like to learn a foreign language, and you imagine all the benefits you would have being able to do so. Anyone who has taken an NLP training future paces themselves into an amazing future, and associate themselves into the sensation of fluency in the language. How cool is that going to be? It feels great. Lets use my NLP training to set some well formed outcomes (goals.)

Conscious incompetence: the amazing feeling standing inside that future, then for many comes with a rough awakening while you start to take lessons. It is not as easy as you thought. But then people start to get a sensation that learning a foreign language is a LOT of work. It is, if you don’t understand what learning is. Confusion and frustration hits. Learning the language becomes a mountain of epic proportions. Some people like to hide around in the prison of their own world, they try to memorize more words, listen to the radio. Then surely competency will come. Or give up, because it is too hard.  Thoughts may start occurring how you are never going to get there. Fight or flight kicks in, our reptilian brain thinks we will be eaten alive in the real world out there. We lock ourselves up to practice. Book more language classes.

This is where your NLP training needs to kick in. To switch emotional states. To associate into what learning is. It means that you know you will at first be incompetent. Step into the shoes of the person (second perceptual position of NLP) who is talking to you. Have you ever gotten angry with someone trying to learn your language? Or do you want to help? Perhaps you are honored for them going through the effort. You know what it feels like as a listener to learn something you don’t know. Take those learnings and take these back into your own shoes (first perceptual position of NLP.) You can also simply dissociate (third perceptual position of NLP.)

The ONLY way you can achieve competency is not by hiding inside with class materials, classes and books, it is to go out into the real world and practice. Step into a super state, or the circle of excellence you learned in NLP training. And this is when people fail at learning a new language start to stumble. They step into a place where they imagine getting out there is a horrible experience. With their incompetence being in the real world with partial language skills, becomes the subject of confusion and frustration. The emotion around our own incompetence, the thoughts, is exactly that piece that is going to stall our learning. We run and hide.

The thing is though, the best way to learn when you have the basics down, is to get out there. To fail. To fail a lot. And rather than going into fear, frustration, confusion or another negative feeling. You could just be motivated, or curious. Or simply have a real understanding that mastery and knowing a language comes with a process of where incompetence is a requirement as an experience. So accept it. It is an expression of being in a state of learning, rather than being unintelligent, being inferior, disadvantaged. This is how you learned everything else. When you learned how to walk, it came with a lot of falling down. At no point was there a decision in your young self, that you were simply NEVER going to walk.  You just kept doing it, even though all the people around you could already walk. You watched them walk, to learn. Accept assistance.

Conscious competence: while engaging in the real world with the language. Talking to real people, you start discover that you actually don’t need to know all words. You need only 2000-3000 of them, depending on the language and conversation at hand. The amount of vocabulary you actually need in the real world, is much less than you think when you sit at home trying to master language. And while you fall down a lot initially, soon you fall less. And less. And then you start seeing the light. You still need to search in your head for words, ask someone a question or rephrase and you are likely going to be exhausted after one conversation. You need to concentrate. Your skills take a bit of a dip when you are tired, or emotional (again negative emotions could get in your way.) But it gets easier, and smoother as you go on. The trick is to just chill during the experience, your aim is being motivated to learn, rather than being a master communicator.

Perhaps you can use your NLP training to make this process fun! To understand you may not be feeling anxiety, you may be feeling excitement. Or pretend as if it is excitement.

Unconscious competence: and then suddenly you find yourself dreaming in the new language, you start to feel it, get a nuance. You achieve mastery. And you stop noticing you are even speaking a foreign language.

Anyone who has taken NLP training, may want to seek answers as to what the magic tricks are to memorize. And they are certainly there. The real game is to embrace incompetence. To manage the emotional states using NLP, and stepping into a true understanding of what learning is. You are doing a good job at learning when you are incompetent.

This is no different while learning the Milton Model and the Meta Model which are inherently at that time foreign language patterns typically taught inside an NLP training.

Benefits of using English in the workplace

Today many medium to large scale companies start to invest their English skills to their employees. This is not without reason, although perhaps they do not currently have an international working relationship, but did not rule out the client's international capacity will soon join in the near future.

Speaking fluent English can be an added value for you who want to apply for a job. Most of the interviewers emphasized English since the beginning of the encounter. Nothing wrong if the survey proves almost 55% of companies in Indonesia require employees to use English actively. It is also intended to raise the image of the company in the eyes of the public and investors and their clients.

Cross-cultural understanding that often speak English makes the employees prosecuted more able to dig their ability. Through some of the seminars held company, of course employees will be more fluent in English. Cross-cultural communication is often a constraint when speakers and listeners have limited language. This is the reason why most companies reject candidates who have no foundation in good English. Of course, communication will be much easier when you are able to speak a foreign language with the other person. That is the importance of the relationship between English and the World of Work.

Let's learn english !!

Tomado de: https://steemit.com/money/@fadhilarnas/the-importance-of-english-in-the-world-of-work

NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING IN LEARNING AND EDUCATION

https://elearningindustry.com/neuro-linguistic-programming-in-learning

TRAVEL VOCABULARY

https://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/vocabulary-lesson-travel.php

CHRISTMAS VOCABULARY

Here are typical words and expressions that people use when talking about or at Christmas.

Christmas Expressions

• Merry Christmas!
• Happy Christmas
• Happy New Year!
• Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
• Wishing you a prosperous New Year
• All the best for the coming year
• Seasons Greetings!

Christmas Terms

advent	the arrival of someone or something important
Advent	the coming (or second coming) of Jesus Christ; the month leading up to Christmas
angel	a spiritual being acting as a messenger of God (usually shown as a human being with wings)
berry	a small round fruit
Bethlehem	the small town in the Middle East believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ
candle	a cylinder of wax with a central wick (like string) which burns to produce light
chimney	a vertical pipe in a house that allows smoke and gases to escape from a fireplace (Father Christmas traditionally enters a house through its chimney)
Christ	the title of Jesus (also used as His name)
Christian	a person who believes in Christianity; also an adjective
Christianity	the religion based on the teachings and person of Jesus Christ
Christmas	the annual Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ (Christmas Day is on 25 December)
Christmas cake	a rich fruit cake covered with white icing, eaten at Christmas
Christmas card	a greetings card that people send to friends and family at Christmas
Christmas carol	a religious song or popular hymn that people sing at Christmas
Christmas Day	25 December, the birthday of Jesus Christ
Christmas Eve	the evening or day before Christmas Day (24 December)
Christmas holidays	the holiday period for about a week before and after Christmas Day
Christmas present	a gift or present given at Christmas
Christmas tree	an evergreen tree (often a spruce) that people decorate with lights and ornaments at Christmas
cracker	a decorated paper tube that makes a sharp noise ("crack!") and releases a small toy when two people pull it apart
decoration	something that adds beauty; ornament
egg-nog	a traditional Christmas drink made of alcohol with beaten eggs and milk
Father Christmas	an imaginary being who brings presents for children on the night before Christmas Day (also known as Santa Claus) - traditionally an old man with a red suit and white beard
fireplace	a partly enclosed space in a house where people light a fire for warmth
frankincense	a gum used for incense, one of the gifts that the three wise men gave to Jesus
gold	a yellow precious metal, one of the gifts that the three wise men gave to Jesus
holly	an evergreen plant with prickly dark green leaves and red berries
Jesus	the name of Christ, the central figure of Christianity (believed by Christians to be the Son of God)
Joseph	the husband of Mary (the mother of Jesus)

magi	the wise men from the East who brought gifts for the baby Jesus
manger	a trough for food for horses or cattle (used by Mary as a cradle or bed for Jesus)
Mary	the mother of Jesus
mistletoe	a parasitic plant with white berries, traditionally used as a Christmas decoration
myrrh	a gum used for perfume or incense, one of the gifts that the three wise men gave to Jesus
nativity	the birth of a person
the Nativity	the birth of Jesus Christ
nativity play	a play that people perform at Christmas based on the birth of Jesus
new year	the start of a year; the period just before and after 1 January
New Year's Day	1 January
New Year's Eve	31 December
ornament	an object that adds beauty to something; a decoration
present	a thing given to somebody as a gift.
reindeer	a deer with large antlers found in some cold climates (believed to pull the sleigh for Santa Claus or Father Christmas)
Santa Claus	an imaginary being who brings presents for children on the night before Christmas Day (also known as Father Christmas) - traditionally an old man with a red suit and white beard (Santa Claus may be based in part on the historical figure of Saint Nicholas.)
shepherd	a person who looks after sheep
sleigh	a sledge or light cart on runners pulled by horses or reindeer over snow and ice
snow	water vapour from the sky that falls as white flakes and covers the ground
star	a bright point in the night sky which is a large, distant incandescent body like the sun
the star of Bethlehem	the star that announced the birth of Jesus and guided the wise men to find Him
tinsel	a decoration consisting of thin strips of shiny metal foil, traditionally used at Christmas
turkey	a bird like a large chicken, traditionally eaten at Christmas
white Christmas	a Christmas with snow on the ground
Xmas	abbreviation or informal term for Christmas