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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...
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...
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.

Make the most of what you watch

We found a technological novelty a few years ago that has proven to be a great tool for language learners since then. The magic letters were LLN: language learning with Netflix. And 3 years later LLY came out…

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Make it playful ’24

Five years ago we posted a collection, an album with photos of billboards. Not great ones, not original or beautiful billboards. They were all printed with ridiculous and horrendous typos. Now we added 11 more photos.

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Technology, Entertainment and Design

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.

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New English Words

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.

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Human translators vs CAT

It was about 4 years ago when we posted a blog entry about the big question: ❓ Are human translators still better than computer translators❓

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The value of revision

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.

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