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Celebrate because…

2023-10-21

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...

Learn and Play

2023-10-15

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: ...

356 x 40 minutes – part two

2023-10-08

Last week we recommended a language learning and practice podcast series with 356 available episodes. Now episode #357 is out...

356 x 40 minutes – part one

2023-10-01

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 ...

It’s September 24th, so…

2023-09-24

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.

That extra spark of self-motivation

2023-09-16

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...

Refreshing summer language cocktail

július 30, 2023

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

július 23, 2023

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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Find out what we celebrate today

július 15, 2023

Once or twice a year we navigate you to a site where you can dive into what we celebrate on that given day around the world…

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Language learning apps – 2023 update

július 9, 2023

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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