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I like teaching English, as its the most used and popular language. Also, in the information age, we need to communicate and reach out beyond our borders, and communication is a vital part of sharing information online and offline!  Also, with the digital age (information age), we need to understand that we are a part of a whole system, where there is input, output and let's not forget feedback! A whole system is made up of smaller systems...

So you’ve finally booked your IELTS Exam. It’s four months out. You need that Band 6.5 for the next big chapter in your life. You’ve even found a teacher to help you out. Great! Now what? During my six years of preparing students for the IELTS exam, I’ve found there are two areas students can benefit the most from during short-term IELTS preparation courses – Writing Critiques, and Speaking Simulations. It’s true: Writing and Speaking are only...

Ser and Estar are two verbs that we have in Spanish and they're both used to say "to be".  A lot of students struggle with when to use ser and when to use estar, because in English, we just have "to be". So let's have a look at when to use each one so you can ace your next grammar test! Ser We would normally use ser to talk about things that are typically permanent, or last for a long time. First, let's go over the ser conjugation...

Cybersecurity experts are required to understand programming concepts to be able to comprehend and interpret cyber activities that might be malicious on the network. Attackers might decide to gain access to data to steal information or alter the data.  A question most cyber experts might ask is "What programming language do I learn?" One popular and easiest programming language to learn is Python programming language which is an object-orie...