Welcome to 1% Every Thursday you receive tips and content to help you improve your English skills, 1 % at a time. I will be taking a break from the 1% newsletter in August. See you again in September. Happy holidays! This is second and final part of how to create and use an AI agent. Last week I showed you how to create an agent, this week we will see how you can use it. First, a short review of what exactly is an AI agent... What is an AI agent? For the purpose of improving your English,...
4 days ago • 7 min read
Welcome to 1% Every Thursday you receive tips and content to help you improve your English skills, 1 % at a time. Generally, people think that if they are the one talking, then they are the one controlling the conversation. This is logical. If you are the one driving the car, then surely you decide where to go. However, the co-pilot- who is reading the map- is the one saying: "turn right; go straight; turn left," at least they did before Google Maps arrived. Therefore, who is really in...
17 days ago • 5 min read
Welcome to 1% Every Thursday you receive tips and content to help you improve your English skills, 1 % at a time. Football is a global sport and the World Cup is the biggest sporting event on the planet. Football is more than a sport though, it's a business and the World Cup is its biggest point of sale. Like other international businesses, the main language in football is English, therefore the World Cup has given us an insight into how people (players, coaches, referees, the media etc.)...
25 days ago • 4 min read
Welcome to 1% Every Thursday you receive tips and content to help you improve your English skills, 1 % at a time. I have seen and heard it many times: a person is about to speak, probably with something intelligent and valuable but then... they stay silent. Or, people tell me: "I wanted to say something/I had an idea, but I didn't feel comfortable/confident saying it because of my English." If this has been you in some version, please read on... Not speaking English when the need or desire...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Welcome to 1% Every Thursday you receive tips and content to help you improve your English skills, 1 % at a time. What happens when every week, you take an English class and then do nothing until the next one? The answer: probably not a lot. Because in order to really make progress with your English, you need to be in contact with the language. That doesn't mean you have to be speaking, reading or listening to English all day (it would obviously help though), but there are some easy things...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Welcome to 1% Every Thursday you receive tips and content to help you improve your English skills, 1 % at a time. Summer time. Different routines, different locations, and different rhythms. This could mean less work and more time with the kids, less sitting in a chair for 8-10 hours and more movement, or it could mean more time to do something entirely different, like practise your English. The tendency in Spain is to wait until September to begin with new goals. 1st September in Spain is...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Welcome to 1% Every Thursday you receive tips and content to help you improve your English skills, 1 % at a time. Most people wrongly assume that all natives speak perfect English. Turn on the tv or radio, and you will hear numerous grammatical and syntactical errors coming from their mouths. You will hear them, but you may not interpret them as a mistake, because, after all, all natives speak perfectly, right? Wrong. The difference between a native making a mistake and a non-native is...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to 1% Every Thursday you receive tips and content to help you improve your English skills, 1 % at a time. On a good day, you feel like you can do anything. You work out, you study, you read, you work and play and practise your English! You feel incredible. But what happens when it's not a good day? Can you still show up and practise your English, even if it is just for ten minutes per day? The answer is yes! Why? Because the person who is able to form and maintain a habit like...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Welcome to 1% Every Thursday you receive tips and content to help you improve your English skills, 1 % at a time. Arguments, complaints, and disagreements are all common when dealing with opinionated humans in the 21st century. In times of social media, people are more accustomed than ever to expressing their thoughts, and often in ways that are considered rude and inappropriate. Fortunately, the way we communicate offline is different to how we interact online (for the moment at least!)....
2 months ago • 3 min read