Word Of The Year 2023 ???
október 28, 2023
Every year, Oxford Dictionaries announce the Word Of The Year. The winner usually sums up the most significant event or trend of the given calendar year…
Ünnepi bevezető – 7 nagyon fontos számmal: 1 évvel ezelőtt a Fast English 3 tulajdonosa és vezetője - akiknek 8 évvel korábban, 22 év cégvezetés után adta át a stafétát az akkori 4 tulajdonos - köszöntőt mondhatott a 2022-ben 30 éves Fast English születésnapi piknikjén...
We are two weeks from June. It’s time to pick your summer books. For language learners who want to find some great books for the summer we have an invaluable link...
Is it Mothers’ Day today? Or Mother’s Day? Or Mothers Day maybe? In Hungarian, there is no dilemma around the spelling of Anyák napja. In English, however, hyphenation raises a question. We have found out about it and put a link in our blog post, in case you have any doubt about that hyphen...
We are less than 2 days from May. The high season for city tours starts around late spring and lasts until early autumn. We would like to help you get ready, in an unusual way.
On an easy Sunday afternoon like this, we recommend that you sit back and, for some light reading practice, join us in figuring out what on earth the term international pixel-stained technopeasant means and why it is mentioned on the same page as the London Marathon and Shakespeare.
Don’t you find it interesting that sometimes, in a ten-word sentence, there are at least five words that did not exist a few decades ago?
Celebrate because…
október 21, 2023
What are we celebrating? In each minute, maybe in each second there is someone on this planet starting to celebrate. To celebrate what? Something that thousands or millions celebrates or something that only a few…
Learn and Play
október 15, 2023
Mastering a language takes discipline and hard word. No doubt about that. But there is a proverb that says “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” From a mental and physiological point of view I would translate it like this: …
356 x 40 minutes – part two
október 8, 2023
Last week we recommended a language learning and practice podcast series with 356 available episodes. Now episode #357 is out…
356 x 40 minutes – part one
október 1, 2023
356 episodes… It’s a dream come true when you start listening to a podcast or following a youtuber and you realize they have uploaded more than three hundred episodes …
It’s September 24th, so…
szeptember 24, 2023
If you open a browser and enter today’s date you get four kinds of results: – the one that tells you that September 24th is the 267th day of the year, – the one that tells you your horoscope for today, – the one aiming merely to entertain you with fun facts in connection with today’s date, – and the scarcest one that we would like to recommend you today.