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Topics
Personal Stories
What is your experience? This is the most powerful conversation we can have to help people understand American language and life.
Culture and survival
- Restaurants
- Shopping [Dec. 3, 2025]
- Tips and tipping
- Drive through ordering
- Talking to teachers
- Talking to teens
- Talking with teens
- Children with special needs
- Language learning in schools
- Medical facilities: Emergency, Urgent Care, doctors offices
- Dentists
- Pediatric dentists
- Western Medicine
- Pharmacy/OTC
- Doctors
- Parties
- Funerals
- Rentals, landlords
- Real estate (buying and selling)
- Parents abroad
- Children abroad
- Band parents, PTO (or PTA), and other parent/school groups
- Educational options
- Police
- Fire
- Emergencies
- Disaster preparedness
- Adult education
- Volunteering
- Banking
- Loans and mortgages
Practical living
- Winter weather
- Severe weather
- Driving
- Rules and license
- Winter [Feb. 28, 2026]
- Cars and maintenance
- Eating
- Food and substitutions
- Culture shock/Reverse culture shock
- Home maintenance (seasonal and ongoing)
- Insurance
Listening and speaking
- What did you hear? What should you have heard?
- Words that sound like something else
- D, T, or nothing
- Singlish: pronunciation
- Singlish: cadence
- Vowel sounds
- Word roots: why is English so inconsistent
Learning and minds
- Managing expectations
- Forgetting and remembering
- Personal techniques: lists, cards, conversation, etc.
- AI
- Grammar
Usage
- Come and go [Jan. 25, 2026]
- Please and thank you [Dec. 15, 2025]
- Bring/take
- Go/went/gone
- Make/do
- Their, there, they're
- Much and many
- Please and thank you [Dec. 15, 2025]
- Would, would have, should
- May/might
- Used to (accustomed to), getting used to, used to (past practice)
- Give/lend (money or other stuff)
Grammar
- Perfect tense
- Countable and uncountable words
- Phrasal verbs
- Irregular verbs
- Tense
- Prepositions
- Pronouns
- Punctuation
- Articles
- Modal verbs
- Past conditional
Holidays
- Christmas/New Year and more [Jan. 3, 2026, Dec. 30, 2025, Dec. 23, 2025]
- Thanksgiving [Nov. 24, 2025]
- Easter
- Memorial Day
- Labor Day
- Groundhog's Day [Feb. 22, 2026]
- 4th of July/Independence Day
- Black Friday
- Valentine's Day/Galentine's Day [Feb. 14, 2026]
- St. Patrick's Day
Teaching/Leading Language
- Teaching tips
- Techniques
- Pitfalls
- Stories
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