Nati is my teenage student, a GenZ-er born during the 21st-century technology revolution. Although the internet, cellular technology, social media, and You Tube are the staples of any GenZ-er’s world, Nati still believes in the power of books and would not trade a book for its brief 3-minute summary video. She loves tongue twisters in English, as well as languages other than her native Polish. Whenever she reads out a new English word with a difficult pronunciation, she is happy to take on the challenge and get it right. As soon as she does, she is proud to acknowledge that she mastered another “tongue twister.” Learning can be so much fun, love working with GenZ-ers! 

At our latest lesson, I introduced Nati to the Paris Worldwide Magazine, the March/April 2018 edition that I picked up at an airport in Paris. Both in French and in English, the magazine has lots of interesting articles with plenty of “tongue twister” ...