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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.

Fast English weekly tips

We launched our blog, Fast English weekly tips, and introduced our unique hashtag #fastenglishweeklytips on facebook years ago, to share with you what we find, week by week, as a result of our research to make the time that you devote to language learning colourful, interesting and fun, in addition to being useful, of course…

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Happy 31st birthday, Fast English

Ünnepi bevezető – 7 nagyon fontos számmal: 1 évvel ezelőtt a Fast English 3 tulajdonosa és vezetője – akiknek 8 évvel korábban, 22 év cégvezetés után adta át a stafétát az akkori 4 tulajdonos – köszöntőt mondhatott a 2022-ben 30 éves Fast English születésnapi piknikjén…

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Get your books for the summer

We are two weeks from June. It’s time to pick your summer books. For language learners who want to find some great books for the summer we have an invaluable link…

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Know how to spell what you celebrate

Is it Mothers’ Day today? Or Mother’s Day? Or Mothers Day maybe? In Hungarian, there is no dilemma around the spelling of Anyák napja. In English, however, hyphenation raises a question. We have found out about it and put a link in our blog post, in case you have any doubt about that hyphen…

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Get ready for city tours

We are less than 2 days from May. The high season for city tours starts around late spring and lasts until early autumn. We would like to help you get ready, in an unusual way.

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Light reading for a sunny day

On an easy Sunday afternoon like this, we recommend that you sit back and, for some light reading practice, join us in figuring out what on earth the term international pixel-stained technopeasant means and why it is mentioned on the same page as the London Marathon and Shakespeare.

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