I’ve just stumbled across a great language learning website that you can use to sharpen up your listening, reading and writing skills in a really fun way. At Lyrics Training you can choose any of the uploaded You Tube music videos and select one of three challenge levels: Beginner, Intermediate or Expert. If you…
The following English learning tips are geared towards all our students studying English with us here at Q Language in Hong Kong. However, that does not mean that they cannot be applied to you if you happen to be studying English at another of Hong Kong’s fine English learning…
Q Language, A Very Different Hong Kong Language School One aspect that makes language study at Q Language so special is the fact that our students join us here from all over the world. We are one of the only language schools in Hong Kong that can say this and it is one of…
Lamma Island, Hong Kong: The Other Expat Community If you are coming to Hong Kong to learn English and are worried you won’t have enough opportunity to practice your English speaking skills, there are many places you can go to interact with native speakers in Hong Kong. Everybody knows Central is the ‘expat’s hangout’, but…
Earlier this year, an interesting and highly entertaining video was published on You Tube which proved beyond doubt that even within the the animal world, unequal pay is a controversial issue. In this blog post, we thought we’d share the video with you and at the same time give you some great English idioms for…
‘You can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ means that it is very difficult, if not impossible, to change the way a person does something when they have been doing it the same way for many years. In other words, you can’t change someone’s long-established ways, especially as people grow older. The expression can relate…