What a Great Day! Today, in Costa Rica, we went swimming in a natural waterfall. We walked for a good forty minutes up to a little café and then walked down to the cold, refreshing pool. The waterfall, although cold, was lots of fun and was a thrill to jump off the sides of the stonewalls. The cold […]
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Please, take a look at English language levels in connection to different language exams (Cambridge, IELTS, TOEFL, BULATS): Preparation for language exams (i.e. Cambridge, IELTS, TOEFL, BULATS) online courses in mini-groups with native speaking tutors. Preparation for language exams in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Malta. Бесплатный подбор школ, проживания и помощь оформлении. You may be […]
Client testimonial for online language courses: “I would like to express my gratitude towards Art of Learning International team for creating very effective online language courses in English. You made my learning experience bright, motivating and exciting at all respects!”
When I just signed up for the online English listening course with Art of Learning International, I did not expect it to be so interesting, effective, and useful. My sincere commends to the team for making the online English listening course meaningful and essential at all respects. Main takeaways from the online English listening course: Listening and […]
Learning English: how to move up from level to level quicker?
Time needed to move up from level to level in English depends on individual abilities of students and such factors as: 1. Age and motivation (in general, children are more apt and fast learners than the adults). 2 . Intensity of learning in the past (i.e. if you were exposed to the foreign language in the […]
Parable: optimism, realism, and “workism”
S. N. Goenka usually tells this parable at Vipassana Meditation course. We can succesfully apply it to the language learning process. A mother sent her son with an empty bottle and a ten-rupee note to buy some oil from the nearby grocer’s shop. The boy went and had the bottle filled, but as he […]
What is Coaching?
About coaching. Differences between coaching and other services. Responsibilities of the client and the coach. Types of coaching. Samples of coaching requests. What is coaching? A way of achieving results without stress A way of raising levels of awareness and responsibility A way of tapping into the very best in people A way of bringing […]
“Swimology”
Once a young professor was making a sea voyage. He was a highly educated man with a long tail of letters after his name, but he had little experience of life. In the crew of the ship on which he was travelling was an illiterate old sailor. Every evening the sailor would visit the cabin […]