Welcome to our new Word of the Week series - kicking off with today's word which is: Cognition - Which means the mental processes involved in thinking, understanding, learning, remembering, and making decisions. Adjective: cognitive Example: Regular exercise can improve cognition, memory, and concentration. And: Regular exercise can have a positive effect on cognitive function, including memory and concentration. Hope you enjoy our word of the week - try it in a sentence here...

Most people don't know about our breakthrough dialect training chatbots...Because most people when they're learning English learn either standard UK English or standard US English dialects...and that's great until you try to have a conversation with someone who has a strong dialect that's not quite as "standard English". Our first dialect chatbot is Agarwal - who speaks very good English but in a bit of an Indian accent... So if you need to improve your understanding of the Indian accent while also using conversation practice, try it out...did I mention that it's free? (Won't be for ever tho...) Go here, test it out, and let us know in the comments how your experience was...https://learnfast.life/practise-understanding-the-indian-accent/

Great that you're here! Looking forward to helping you learn/improve your English - quickly, easily, effectively, and with a lot of fun along the way! We use our own learnfast.life learning system and platform - with dynamic lesson summaries, smart quizzes, flashcards, chatbots and more...

ENGLISH (FÜR DEUTSCH SIEHE UNTEN): Hey! I'm Noel Maurice and I'm very glad you're here. I've been teaching English mainly to business professionals (but not only) for over 15 years and my experience teaching showed me that a new way of doing this was really overdue....most language schools and teaching methods rely on old-fashioned techniques, static learning documents and...well...they make learning English look pretty boring, really. But it shouldn't be. And one thing I've come to believe completely... If you're not having fun, you're not going to learn. Which is why I'm 100% behind having fun while learning. Oh, and it's just more enjoyable too, of course... Of course that wasn't the only thing I learnt... And EVERYTHING I learnt over these 15 years, I've packed into my platform and learning / teaching system called LearnFast.Life. It's revolutionary. It's a one-off: no one anywhere is doing this quite like we are... And it's also been tried and tested...I've used my learnfast method to teach people for over a year now: what worked stayed; what didn't got kicked out; and all the feedback I got, I fed straight into improving the learnfast system. Which is why: If you're here with me in the Quick and Easy English - LFL community; and if you really apply yourself, learn with me (with us), and take the steps I lay out, I guarantee you, you'll HUGELY improve your English ability in no time at all. And, of course, have fun doing it... DEUTSCH: Hallo! Ich heiße Noel Maurice und ich freue mich sehr, dass du hier bist. Ich unterrichte seit über 15 Jahren vor allem Geschäftsleute (aber nicht nur) Englisch und meine Erfahrung als Lehrer hat mir gezeigt, dass ein neuer Ansatz längst überfällig war... Die meisten Sprachschulen und Lehrmethoden stützen sich auf altmodische Techniken, statische Lernmaterialien und... nun ja... sie lassen das Englischlernen wirklich ziemlich langweilig erscheinen. Aber das sollte nicht so sein. Und eine Sache, von der ich mittlerweile fest überzeugt bin…

I'm sitting here on the balcony of our holiday flat, overlooking the sea, on an island across the water from Split. I woke up early, at around 5.30am, which gave me the chance to watch the sun rise behind the mountains across the water. It was a beautiful moment, and I've been sitting here since then (it's now ten to seven), just appreciating the calm, quiet beginning of the day - and drinking coffee, of course. Hope you enjoy the photos! Oh...and of course there are a couple of things here that help us with our English grammar: 1. "I'm sitting here" - present continuous (ing form) - what I'm doing right now. 2. "I woke up early" - past simple, talking about something that is firmly in the past ("around 5am gives us a specific time that puts it in the past - not always present, but useful) 3. "I've been sitting here since then" - present perfect continuous (have + ing): to talk about something that started in the past and is still happening (also sometimes used for something that has been happening until this moment, even if it's now coming to an end - or has just come to an end. Have you got some holiday experiences to share? Or give us your own 1,2,3 (1 present continuous sentence, 1 past simple sentence, 1 present perfect continuous sentence)...