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If you still have a few question marks on your Christmas gift list but 4 days before Christmas you have serious doubts because: A: You already did your store tour and found empty shelves where you expected to find what you wanted to buy. B: Webshops can’t guarantee that you will get your ordered products before 24th...
Isn’t the winter holiday the best time to expand your cooking related vocabulary? Why wouldn't you switch to adventurous mode and try some new recipes for this Christmas? By the time you turn off the oven you will have picked up a lot of new vocabulary - if you use our link collection with recipes and ideas...
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...

Celebrate because…

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…

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Learn and Play

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: …

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356 x 40 minutes – part one

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 …

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It’s September 24th, so…

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.

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That extra spark of self-motivation

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…

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