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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...

For your tea breaks

2023-09-10

Do you know that visitor counter widget built into webpages that tells you how many visits the website has had? That counter on one of our favourite “tea break websites” says thirteen million. Wait, no. It’s thirteen billion. 13,645,024,327 visits since the website was launched...

Oh, the weather

2023-09-04

It’s getting harder to form an opinion on the weather. We are less and less surprised that the weather surprises us. Record highs and record-long hot summer periods without a cloud in the sky used to have the potential to make headlines. Now it would raise more eyebrows if meteorologists predicted a normal, “rulebook” spring, summer, autumn or winter...

An ocean of books

2023-08-27

I wonder how fast our mood and the weather will switch to “autumn mode” this year. The scorching heat has divided us into two groups now: those who escape to the nearest beach whenever they can, and those who do not go out until the sun goes down...

Fast – üzleti és szakmai kommunikáció

2023-08-21

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Talk shows to learn English conversation

március 11, 2023

On the wide range of TV shows there’s no better programme to learn English conversation than talk shows. Their recipe to get you addicted is simple: a host, several celebrity guests, interviews and short game or comedy segments…

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Test your reading speed

február 25, 2023

If you look at the title line of this post it’s quite obvious what “wpm” stands for. If your reading speed is 250 wpm it means you can read 250 words per minute. Is 250 wpm a high reading speed?

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Make the most of Youtube and Netflix

február 19, 2023

Three years ago we found a technological novelty that has proven to be a great tool for language learners since then. Now we have found that it merged with another application…

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Learn 7 new English words

február 11, 2023

We would like to introduce you to 7 words that are either new or are used more and more frequently in a new context in 2023…

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Find the best online tools

február 4, 2023

Learning focus: word endings or suffixes >> Tip: a great online resource that you can rely on for finding words with the same ending, for practice and vocabulary expansion.

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