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…
Do you know the difference between a barbecue and a garden party? They have less in common than you would expect...
Do you ever wonder about the origin of words? Some words have amazing stories or legends surrounding their origin. For example, most learners of English, sooner or later, come across the famous story behind the word ”sandwich”. (Should you not know that, click on the link below.)
In other words: If you are interested in something and want to find out about it in articles, books, videos, podcasts: look for them in the language that you are learning.
We have 9 super-weird but existing English words for you. The question is:
Do you know who polyglots are? Lydia Machova’s TED talk about the secrets of learning a new language has close to 8.5 million views...
Have you tried learning English with music yet? This is the perfect way to have fun while you improve your English skills.
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.