
Sometimes it’s not easy to find the spark of desire for language learning. You know that frustration when you have been planning and scheduling and rescheduling and promising yourself that you will devote some time to language learning in the near future but this near future remains in the future as days and weeks pass by...
Do you know that visitor counter widget built into webpages that tells you how many visits the website has had? That counter on one of our favourite “tea break websites” says thirteen million. Wait, no. It’s thirteen billion. 13,645,024,327 visits since the website was launched...
It’s getting harder to form an opinion on the weather. We are less and less surprised that the weather surprises us. Record highs and record-long hot summer periods without a cloud in the sky used to have the potential to make headlines. Now it would raise more eyebrows if meteorologists predicted a normal, “rulebook” spring, summer, autumn or winter...
I wonder how fast our mood and the weather will switch to “autumn mode” this year. The scorching heat has divided us into two groups now: those who escape to the nearest beach whenever they can, and those who do not go out until the sun goes down...
Last week we posted part one of our mini post series, “What to do in August”. For all of you, adventure-seekers, the remaining 20 days of summer still offers a great variety of promising events...


Get a global look
április 4, 2020
Politico dot com published ”34 big thinkers’ predictions for what’s to come” that is how the present pandemic will change the world.

5 words for people who get on your nerves
március 31, 2020
Merriam-webster.com lists these words (and more) in their „Words at Play” series. Let’s see if you have ever heard them and if you know what they mean.

9 Tips on what to do now
március 28, 2020
FAST ENGLISH WEEKLY TIPS ⏩ ⏩ MAKE THE MOST OF IT Interestingly, it’s Tip Berlin’s website where we found the most practical collection of tips, WRITTEN IN ENGLISH , on what you can do at home during the quarantine…

The future of the English language
március 24, 2020
HOW WILL ENGLISH SOUND IN 100 YEARS? There are several theories on how the English language will evolve in the next 10, 20, 50 or 100 years…
