You know the annoying thing about learning English? Of course you do. It’s that you go to lots of classes, you memorise your textbooks, you spend weeks, months, even years studying, you have it all down, and then you end up chatting with a bunch of Americans or English people and you have no idea[…]

It’s a cliche, sure, but you know how cliches get to be cliches…I’m talking about the weather. In fact I’m talking about talking about the weather. Two people who don’t know each other well stand in front of each other, one makes a comment on how sunny/rainy/cold/wet/dry it’s been and they’re off. There’s more to[…]