My Master’s Defense

NCT Mark’s iconic line, “Uh, and that’s a long ass ride” from “The 7th Sense” (2016), perfectly reflects the journey of a Master’s degree.

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IELTS Speaking Part 2 Generating Ideas (pt.2)

I hope that the following guidance will make generating ideas for IELTS Speaking Part 2 less of a nightmare.

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French self-study starter pack

Thanks to Yen Nhi’s intention to self-study French, I became more motivated to complete this long-pending post about how I learned French before taking the proficiency test in this language.

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A crash course on grammar for IELTS (pt.1)

Back then, when waiting to clean up the whole mess after the event for the Mid Autumn Festival in my center, I drafted this one. The 2nd part will come out soon.

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Unexpected scholarship

On the very first day of the week, I was given an opportunity to learn more…

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ELSA AI

It took me a long time to prepare for this post, as I didn’t expect it to be this hard to put everything in a single post. Anyway, here is a closer look at how ELSA AI works.

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[IELTS] 1001 problems

This post is my endeavor to work out endless problems with the IELTS exam from my students. Though I’ve tried hard, it’ll be an arduous journey. So pardon my sometime ridiculousness.

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Non-native speaker teachers

My reflection on an academic paper. Um, my post isn’t that academic…

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Reading and the perennial problems

I should have published this post last week, but felt unsatisfied with the content. Therefore, after hours of writing, and cutting, again and again, today we’ve got this one – maybe I’ll have an updated version when something new needs to be added.

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