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Have you ever faced the challenge of understanding the local accent in an English-speaking country? However good your English is, and even if you are a teacher of English with years of experience, it can be a humbling experience when you get into a taxi in Glasgow and the driver initiates a casual chat with you.
It’s the first day of summer 2024. According to the calendar, it’s time to put your imaginary spring dictionary back on the shelf. If you are ready to dust off your summer English dictionary, we have an updated summer vocabulary list for you.
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.
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.
Is it Mothers’ Day today? Or Mother’s Day? Or Mothers Day maybe?
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...

Hundreds of recipes and food ideas for the holidays

Every year, around the first days of December, we update our recipe and culinary idea collection for the holidays. Not only can you surprise your family and friends (and maybe even yourself) with edible novelties coming from your kitchen, but by the time you turn off the oven you will have picked up a lot of new vocabulary or revised some almost forgotten words and phrases about ingredients and cooking processes.

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Brain teasers

We regularly post about playful, relaxing ways to improve your English. You can find blog posts on our website about board games, apps, online games, podcasts, books, movies and series…

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Vocabulary multiplier

Whether you are a language learner or a teacher wanting to share with your students one of the most amazing keys to expanding vocabulary exponentially, the magic words are…

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November

November is a kind of a countdown to winter. Each day we are one day closer to December, and though we could say that about September, too, November is really starting to tune us to winter…

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Find out about traditions

Isn’t it interesting that just two decades ago a lot of people in Hungary would have been surprised if you had invited them to a Halloween party…

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Word Of The Year 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…

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