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Lamma Island, Hong Kong – A Great Place To Practise Your English Speaking Skills
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…
Monkeys Go Bananas Over Unequal Pay – Learn Idioms That Express Anger
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 – Idiom (Or Proverb?)
‘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…
Fantastic Language Learning Tip: Shadowing A Foreign Language
Have you ever tried shadowing a foreign language? Shadowing is a language learning technique developed by the American Professor and language specialist, Alexander Arguelles. It’s a great technique for anyone learning a foreign language to try. All you need is some sort of portable listening device like an iPod (remember them) or a decent mobile…
Is Facebook Killing Your Real-World Relationships?
Social media is now part of most of our every day lives. There are now over 1 billion people on Facebook worldwide and most of its users log in to the social network at least once, if not twice a day But are your digital relationships on Facebook – as well as other social…
Learning English In Hong Kong By Studying Recycling, Conservation And The Environment
Studying English at Q Language isn’t all about sitting in a classroom for hours on end. Our teachers genuinely care about their students and like to give them a broad range of activities to make the most of their learning experience here in Hong Kong. In a recent blog post, Byron, a popular member of…
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