What the hell does this even mean? This was my question when I first read "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald back in high school. Although I was both…
Paul Duke is an online English tutor and coach, content creator, writer & editor. He lives in Vancouver, Canada, and loves language, culture, cinema, literature, and pizza.
Live Writing Event
https://youtu.be/4Jbiqmuq5Ck Live Writing Event on Youtube Recently, my friends and esteemed peers, Philip Charter and Pete Pozner, with whom I co-host the monthly Podcast, Trouble With Writing, staged a live…
The Two Words That Turn Us Into Losers
Words, my friends, are powerful things. They both express and shape our thoughts. As such, we need to be careful, choosey, about what words we allow ourselves to speak, and thus…
Teacher Paul’s LIVE Show
Here is a sample of my weekly live English Q&A show, which streams live to Facebook, Youtube, and other platforms every week. This show is a free live English lesson…
Teacher Paul Surprises Students in Japan
In February, Teacher Paul surprised his online students with a visit in person to their high school in Sakata City in Yamagata Prefecture, in northwestern Japan.Here is the unedited video…
English Weirdness, episode 7, now showing
The final three episodes of the first seaosn of ENGLISH WEIRDNESS are on the way. I've been using the COVID lockdown time to edit and prepare them. Stay tuned, support…
Latest ENGLISH WEIRDNESS
We released this video in December, but for those of you who haven't seen it, here it is again. There are four more episodes on the way, the next of…
Free Writing Webinar
Have you ever felt, or been told, that your English writing was 'unnatural'? Have you reached an advanced English level, but still can't write the way you want to, with…