So what do you think?

As Charlie Brown once said, "Life sure is strange. And they say you only come this way once....what did I come this way for?" That's one of my favourite lines from that comic strip. 

Sometimes I'm sure that many of you wonder the same thing. I talk to people in China who feel stressed because of the competition for jobs, who work six days a week and who can only have one child. Other people in Turkey want to come to North America but are treated as third class people by the US and Canada. I talk to other people in the Middle East who feel that their culture is backward and needs to accept the present before their countries can move into the future. 

What does this have to do with English? Well, all of these people, including myself, can make a change one step at a time. That's how we learn, step by step, bit by bit. Sometimes we take baby steps and sometimes we take huge adult steps but little by little we get closer to where we want to go. 

Don't give up! Keep at it. If you only learn three words a day, you will have a vocabulary of over 100 by the end of a month, over 600 in 6 months and well over 1000 by the end of the first year. Trust me...you are better than you think you are! Start now and let me know where you are a year from today.