I’ve just uploaded a new cartoon video to YouTube about a new booklet I’ve just released called The Skint Expat’s Key To English. Check out the video here if you like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8zOK9cEY1c Or else you can go into Amazon Kindle and find the...
I was just looking at some social media posts, and one struck me as almost impossibly naïve. A little more than a year ago, I wouldn’t have put “almost” in that sentence, but back then, I lived in China, a country ruled by an authoritarian regime; a nanny...
I'm still thinking about getting back to the Americas. (I say “still” though I don’t know if anyone reading this ever knew that was on the table in the first place.)(Actually, I shouldn’t talk out loud about these ideas. Evidently, I tend to come up with...
I’ve just made a video for YouTube on how to book a trial lesson. I wrote pretty simple instructions on the Study English page, and Karol made a pretty good visual to illustrate that, but now there’s a video, it’s on YouTube, and it puts my face to the product....
Well, except for this introduction. One of my students introduced me to ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/chat) with the artwork created by DALL-E (https://labs.openai.com/e/qsqis4bGLAOZyQnoLDQh7yOK). This is….very weird: Hello, my name is Assistant and I...
Today I posted another cartoon. This one was made as a request from my sister. Sis, I hope you’re not disappointed. The request was to make a cartoon about how American expats celebrate the holiday season in foreign countries. At first, I thought that would be a...
《This is kind of an interesting post. I actually wrote it for another blog, one which is currently on hold, putting it as mildly as possible. I actually have a few posts from there that might be good here, both for language learning and for expat...
Here’s another cartoon. This one is a bit longer, and you’ve already read the story here (maybe, for my one or two subscribers), but here’s a short cartoon version of it. It’s on YouTube obviously, but I want it here too, so here you are:...
We still really badly miss Qiqi. I still can't say her name out loud. It upsets Erer too much. Me too.
This carries on from an earlier post. Might be an idea to have read that before reading this. OK… ARRIVAL AND ADJUSTMENT, LIFE AS AN EXPAT It took some adjustment, as you can imagine. It was my first time abroad for any length of time. A couple...
I have been an expat for more than 30 years now. I’m originally from the United States, though at this point that hardly matters. In that time, I’ve played music with bands and recorded and released solo music, I’ve been an English teacher for most of that time, and now I’m doing a blog about all of it.