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In Hungary, like in many other countries, Santa Clause is coming to town on 6th December. We had a post on how they call Santa, and why, in different countries and cultures...
Kommunikációs hajlandóság vs. szorongás, avagy miért nem merünk megszólalni angolul? 3.része. Ahogy az előző hetekben beszámoltam nektek, a Fast English-nél céges nyelvi képzésben résztvevő 185 hallgató körében egy kisebb kutatást végeztünk annak felderítésére, hogy miért nem merünk angolul megszólalni.
Előző alkalommal beszámoltam nektek arról, hogy a Fast English egy kisebb kutatást végzett arról, hogy miért is nem merünk megszólalni angolul, vagyis miért van az, hogy egy magas szinten lévő hallgató vonakodik attól, hogy egyetlen szót is kiejtsen egy megbeszélésen, ha nem feltétlenül muszáj, míg egy alacsonyabb szinten lévő hallgató adott esetben sokkal bátrabb.
I usually discover it only retrospectively, usually in January, how wonderful November is. It’s not because Thanksgiving is in November, not because Black Friday is in November, either...
This Friday is Friday 13th !!! The Evening Standard published an article about the origins to this mysterious superstition...
English is spoken all around the world but it’s not the same English all arond the world…

An oasis of resources

What you can see hovering over our blog post image are the most common suffixes: -tion, -ity, -er, -ness, -ism, -ment, -ant, -ship, -age, -ery We would like to recommend an oasis of resources for language learners and language teachers. It’s a great tool for language learners whose objective is to get to know some more suffixes, or word endings, in addition to the ones they are already familiar with.

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For the conscious reader

In less than 20 days it’s summer. For conscious language learners who want to find some great books for the summer we have an invaluable link.

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21st century tourists

Generally, it’s around late spring that city tour high season starts but, as our four seasons are shifting and our climate is changing, I think it’s safer to say that after two weeks of good spring weather in a row, suddenly tourist come out of their caves and appear in the cities…

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Seriously?

Once or twice a year, we invite you, just for fun, just as a light Sunday afternoon reading tip, to join us and find out what we celebrate on that given day around the world…

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Troll, boop, trill and others

In music, when new artists appear, we talk about one-hit wonders and real stars with long-lasting fame and recognition. It’s the same with new words in a language. New words appear, we start using them, some of them become part of our most frequently used active vocabulary, other words become popular for some time and then disappear for good.

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