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It’s hard to find someone who hasn’t ever seen or heard of these three letters side by side: TED. It’s much easier to find someone who, though they regularly watch or listen to TED presentations, has never wondered what TED stands for.
New words pop up every day and what seemed to be relevant yesterday may disappear for good in our ever-changing world. And also, there are words and phrases that have already existed but a new meaning got attached to them in a new context.
It was about 4 years ago when we posted a blog entry about the big question: ❓ Are human translators still better than computer translators❓
Revision is an indispensable part of learning a language. It helps you remember and reactivate previously covered vocabulary, grammar and structures, thus increasing your confidence, your accuracy and your fluency.
Last week we posted part 1 of our traditional mini-series, Word Of The Year. After 2019’s“climate emergency”, 2020’s “pandemic”, 2021’s “vax”, and 2022’s “Goblin mode”, at the end of 2023, the Word Of The Year was announced by Dictionary dot com: “hallucinate”.
Word Of The Year for 2023, announced by Dictionary dot com, is not a new word. It’s an old word with a new meaning. Each year, trending words and phrases are tracked and analysed. The winner usually sums up in one or two words the most significant event, discovery, crisis or trend of the given calendar year.

What to do in August – part two

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…

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Refreshing summer language cocktail

We do our best to write blog posts that are related to current dates, events or seasons. So, if it’s 30th July, this blog post is destined to be about something “summer-y”…

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Crossword Puzzles

The difference between 50 and 10,000 is significant. That’s the difference between the number of crossword puzzles that you get buying a crossword magazine and downloading a crossword app…

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Language learning apps – 2023 update

Each year, some time in July, we run a research to find the best FREE language learning apps. We launched this mid-summer blog topic years ago to inspire language learners to make the most of their “smart phone time” while sitting in the shade on the beach…

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