Some pieces of advice to improve your English: Read what you are keen on, but read! Watch movies, sport events or news in English. Listen to music and understand the lyrics. It is a fun way to learn. Underline unknown words and after that look them up. Use new words and expressions, share them with other students. Avoid translating in to your own language, only if the English definition doesn’t help. Learn from your mistakes, don’t be frustrated.  The BASIC pieces of advice: Spend...

Think green. Think shamrocks. Think Guinness, folk music and the lush rolling hills of the Fair Isle they call ‘Emerald’. Thoughts such as these can only mean one thing: Ireland. And every year on 17th March the world looks to Ireland in the wake of ‘St. Patrick’s Day’. The one day of the year when pubs are filled to the rafters (that’s an idiomatic expression meaning “full” or “overcrowded” for all you English language learners!) and drinking copious amounts of alcohol is...