
Day 25 – Zoundslike
Day 25: watch a video in your target language to work on listening, reading subtitles, and learning spelling. Don’t watch

Day 25: watch a video in your target language to work on listening, reading subtitles, and learning spelling. Don’t watch


Day 8 is for improving your vocabulary and understanding. Find an article in English or the language you’re learning then

Day 1 of the 30-day challenge starts with a small step. Begin a daily habit for practicing English by following



We’ve all let it happen at one time or another. We’re talking to someone whose first language is not our own. The conversation is flowing along nicely when the person mispronounces a word, or two, or three. Rather than correcting

I still remember the first time I requested it by name. I was an exchange student in Strasbourg, France, living with a wonderful Strasbourgeoise family close to the Palais de L’Europe where the United Nations often meet. (More recently it has been the site of protests against the policies of President

This summer was a success in terms of getting the physical version of Zoundslike out into the world. I visited a total of five ESL schools (three in Los Angeles and two in Boston). As an experiment, I also went to one Thai temple in Los Angeles (where I had heard they sometimes offered classes), and the memory