About this blog

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

Emerson, R. W. in Self Reliance

 

If you came to this page, I believe you might be at least a tad interested in learning what this blog is about, am I right? Well, to be honest with you, choosing what to have as a theme was one of the most complicated things I had to do. Actually, you wouldn’t want to know how long it took me to write my first post. I’ve been trying to tweak the blog as I write this page, but I’m sure I still have a lot to learn about the features wordpress offers and the blog is bound to go through some changes after I can finally post something and, who knows, get some readers to follow it.

I’ve thought about many different things, and the truth is that what I’d really like to write about is ELT. This means this blog will be a place for me to do my own reflections on what I read from other people, post about topics which interest me in ELT, such as Pronunciation, Grammar, Vocabulary and all the other things from the area.

I’ll do my best to separate the posts into categories to make it easier for readers (and for me as well) to find anything I might be looking for. If anyone would like to make any suggestion, I’m more than willing to listen.

I think I should also say that anything I post here expresses my own view unless stated otherwise. I do not wish to be right all the time nor do I want everyone to agree with me. I just want to use this space as another source for discussion (as long as there are readers and commentators) and reflection. Actually, isn’t this one of the reasons why anyone start a blog?

I hope you enjoy what you find here. Happy reading!