Guides for learning English
Practical advice for adults and professionals who want to speak English with confidence, drawn from decades of teaching with the Callan Method.
How to tell if your English teacher is good
Punctuality, speaking time, pronunciation correction and review: a practical checklist to find out whether your English lessons are really paying off.
Read →English conversation classes: why just talking won’t make you fluent
Free conversation feels like the natural route to fluency, but it has hidden traps. What really develops your spoken English.
Read →Business English or general English?
You know the technical vocabulary of your field but freeze in meetings? Why the problem is rarely technical English, and what to do about it.
Read →How to overcome the fear of speaking English
Embarrassed to make mistakes, mind going blank, words that won’t come out: why it happens and what really helps you lose the fear of speaking English.
Read →How to think in English and stop translating in your head
Translating in your head makes you slow and full of mistakes. Why it happens and how to build the reflex of answering directly in English.
Read →Intensive English course: how many hours a day really work?
Ten-day immersion courses with eight hours a day promise miracles. What really works in an intensive English course, and the daily limit that pays off.
Read →Learning two languages at once: is it a good idea?
English and German together? English and Italian? When studying two languages at the same time holds you back, and why English usually comes first.
Read →English pronunciation: why correction must start in the first lesson
Why pronunciation must be corrected from the very first lessons, how good correction works and what European learners can do to speak more clearly.
Read →Callan Method: why full answers, and why so fast?
“No, Rome isn’t a village, but it’s a city.” Why the Callan Method requires long answers in the negative first, and why the teacher speaks so fast.
Read →How not to forget your English
You learn it, you understand it, and a week later it is gone. Why that happens and how systematic review makes English stick.
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