Tag: Speaker

This is the Most Critical Skill to Becoming a Better Japanese Speaker

You’ve heard the usual complaints about the Japanese language. It’s a very difficult language to learn — even if ads promise to make you fluent in just two months. The writing system is convoluted. There are too many kanji and too many ways of reading them. Japanese...

Speaker Profile: Kate Jackson

Kate Jackson is the Director, lead consultant and trainer at Andragogy, her own company which she founded on the principles of adult learning and for the long-life learning sector. Based in Thailand for 16 years, Kate holds a BA Hons in Youth Work & Non-formal Education, MEd, DTLLLS (Diplom...

Setting and Negotiating Your Rates as a Disabled Speaker

Have you, as someone who is disabled, ever been approached to speak at an event without compensation? Organisers might pitch it as a chance to connect with an audience that will be inspired by your journey and a platform to spread awareness to the public on the experiences you have gone through a...

Speaker Mike Johnson: Making America Straight — Or At least Closeted — Again*

Human Rights Campaign’s recent ROUNDUP summarizes Speaker Mike Johnson’s decades-long devotion to merging his extremist visions of religion and government, his sanctimonious dedication to preventing, curtailing, and reversing the expansion of civil and human rights to historica...

Want to speak English like a native speaker? Read this first.

Language learners, and English language learners in particular, always want to achieve language proficiency as good as native speakers. There are many videos on YouTube and articles on Medium with titles like “How to speak English as a native speaker” or “how to achieve n...

The reason why I want to write in English – as a non English speaker

To be honest, I am not confident in my English skills. Although, when I was a little kid in kindergarten, my mom urged me to learn English. That was a golden time in China; learning English was extremely popular at that time. So my mom spent a lot of money and bought a bunch of English textbooks for...