Important Changes to TOEFL Home Edition
ETS (the company that created and oversees TOEFL) has made an important change to taking the TOEFL Home Edition. In addition to ensuring that you testing environment meets their high standards, test takers in Chile will now need to use a secondary camera that shows their keyboard and computer screen while taking the test. More […]
Working as an Editor in Self-Publishing
If you’ve been reading my blog over the past year or so, you’ve probably read how I edited Luiz Otavio Barros’s book English in the News. In case you haven’t read it and would like to do so, you can read it here. I was pleasantly surprised when Luiz wrote me about a month ago […]
How a Board Game Has Helped Me Build Confidence and Go Outside My Comfort Zone
I’ve been a fan of the board game Catan for many years now. I remember my host family in Germany introducing me to the game back in 2000, but at that time it didn’t really interest me. Then in about 2012 I learned to play from some friends, and ever since then it has been […]