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Easy English Teaching: Know Your Class!

Posted by Teddy Nee on September 15, 2025

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Analyzing Taiwanese Learners' Perceptions of English Varieties

Posted by Teddy Nee on May 07, 2025

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Learn English happily

Posted by Teddy Nee on November 18, 2024

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I speak 4 languages in Penang Malaysia and I shall learn 1 more language

Posted by Teddy Nee on October 06, 2023

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Languages in my daily life

Posted by Teddy Nee on December 21, 2022

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Interview: Ermira B Gashi (Kosovo)

Posted by Teddy Nee on April 19, 2020

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Guest Post: How Language, Culture, and Crisis Interact

Posted by Teddy Nee on April 02, 2020

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Learn Toki Pona to Understand the Basics of Language Learning

Posted by Teddy Nee on April 08, 2019

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Language Meetups By Teddy Nee

Posted by Teddy Nee on December 02, 2018

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Interview: Hanbid Kim (South Korea)

Posted by Teddy Nee on August 24, 2018

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The most complicated word in English

Posted by Teddy Nee on January 28, 2018

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Accustom yourself to different English accents

Posted by Teddy Nee on September 09, 2017

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Learning by Reading

Posted by Teddy Nee on August 14, 2017

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3 Social And Language Meetups

Posted by Teddy Nee on June 13, 2017

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If you were to speak 12 languages

Posted by Teddy Nee on January 19, 2017

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Keep On Learning Languages and Be An Independent Learner

Posted by Teddy Nee on September 28, 2016

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Four In One: Tagalog, Mandarin, English, Indonesian

Posted by Teddy Nee on September 15, 2016

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Guest Post: Learning English with Movies – Fun and Value Hand in Hand

Posted by Teddy Nee on August 31, 2016

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How many languages do you know?

Posted by Teddy Nee on April 23, 2016

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Guest Post: Learn Chinese Language Online, Fast and Free (The Ultimate Guide) Part 4

Posted by Teddy Nee on February 10, 2016

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I often encounter invented languages when researching the latest stories in language learning. Out of curiosity, I picked up one invented language to learn: Esperanto. Gladly, I made a good decision because Esperanto turned out to be the easiest language that I had ever learned at that time. I submitted a short article to an Esperanto magazine in Brazil after 4 months of learning Esperanto, and it was published one month later! Esperanto is just one of many invented languages in this world. Here are some of the popular ones. Esperanto is a language designed for international communication and understanding. It has simple and regular grammar, and its vocabulary is based on root words from major European languages. Esperanto has been used for over a century, and it has a global community of speakers. Toki Pona is a minimalist language designed for simplicity and clarity. It uses a small vocabulary and grammatical structure to express basic concepts. Its goal is to promote peace, simplici...

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