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Personal Development & English Language Learning
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Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Presentation Skills – My Presentation at BIDC!
Here’s my presentation at BIDC Festival in Bangkok! Now, I wasn’t able to get the full audio, so it might be just 3 minutes in and cut off after 47 minutes. I apologize, but the content is here. I did a rough transcript of…
Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Special – IELTS – Part III – Talking About Abstract Topics & Agree/Disagree
Welcome back to another Facebook Live Coaching for IELTS! Thank you so much for tuning in today, and we’re going to have to further discuss Part III — a topic we haven’t spoken about yet. Here are some of the things we will go…
Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 3 – Episode 18 – Grammar – Ever, Never, For, Since, Just, Already, Yet
Yes! The big SHABAAM is here! This could be super difficult for a lot of you, but to put this all on one blog will help the majority of you out there who seemingly don’t understand the concept of the words above. I’m your…
Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 3: Episode 16 – Speaking Skill – Becoming a Good Conversationalist
As a non-native English speaker, it’s important to become an active listener. Becoming an active listener revolves around attentively listening to the other speaker. Yes, it’s important to speak, too, but you will be liked very quickly if you ask people questions that they…
Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 3 – Episode 7 – Grammar – Gerunds and Infinitives Part III (Intermediate)
I’m bringing to you some more difficult gerunds and infinitives! The revision is never enough until mastery comes. Here we go with some more rules and a difficult passage for you all to do. Gerund Rules As the subject/object of a sentence. With go…
Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: International Guest Speaker – Kyara of Mexico!
This was one of the best conversations I’ve had in a long time. Kyara, who’s from Mexico, talked about some funny things, shared some wonderful locations to travel, and talked about her English language learning wisdom. Here’s the podcast and show notes! International Guest…
Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 2 – Episode 56 – Pronunciation – Held ‘T’
After having a profound insight with one of my students this evening, I decided to do this week’s pronunciation lesson on the lesson I had with him. I think it’s remarkable how amazing North American English is. First, let’s break down the silent ‘T.’…
Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Special – TOEIC – Grammar & Vocabulary Tip Part II
YES! We are back and doing better than ever, breaking down some more basics for you guys. As time goes on, I will make this a lot more difficult, but this is “TOEIC FOR BEGINNERS” at this point. Let’s dive into it! Present Continuous…
The Failure of Credentials (part 2/2)
Arsenio Foreword: Jiun went through the same thing I went through. While I was sitting outside one morning after USA’s basketball team got ripped apart by the greeks in the FIBA World Championships in 2006, I was talking to a friend (at the time)…
The Failure of Credentials (part 1/2)
Last year, my friend bought me a book that captured my attention about Malaysian youth unemployment that was higher than our Southeast Asian neighbours. Here the question popped up, ‘why Malaysian millennials like me can’t secure employment with a better pay cheque and move…
