{"id":12,"date":"2006-05-13T08:04:22","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2018-10-24T06:40:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:40:07","slug":"teaching-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/teaching-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I decided to start a site on English, I had no idea what I was getting into. The lessons on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawlessenglish.com\/english-mistakes\/\">English difficulties<\/a> are fairly easy &#8211; I just write down what I know, double-check in the dictionary, and <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawlessfrench.com\/expressions\/voila\/\">voil\u00e0<\/a><\/i>. What turned out to be much harder is writing the ESL lessons. I thought I&#8217;d be clever and offer them not just in English, but in French and Spanish as well. 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