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Do you ever wonder about the origin of words? Some words have amazing stories or legends surrounding their origin. For example, most learners of English, sooner or later, come across the famous story behind the word ”sandwich”. (Should you not know that, click on the link below.)
In other words: If you are interested in something and want to find out about it in articles, books, videos, podcasts: look for them in the language that you are learning.
We have 9 super-weird but existing English words for you. The question is:
Do you know who polyglots are? Lydia Machova’s TED talk about the secrets of learning a new language has close to 8.5 million views...
Have you tried learning English with music yet? This is the perfect way to have fun while you improve your English skills.
Az elmúlt hetekben arról beszéltünk, hogyan lehet hatékony a cégeknél történő, kihelyezett nyelvtanfolyam. Megnéztünk különböző szcenáriókat. Ma a céges nyelvtanfolyamban résztvevő legnépesebb táborral foglalkozunk: ők az irodai környezetben dolgozó munkatársak, a pénzügyesek, a beszerzők, a HR-esek.

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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