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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.
It’s one week till Christmas. If you haven’t got to the end of your gift shopping list, you can probably feel the pressure of this countdown.
If white has a superlative form, we can say it’s the whitest December of the decade, maybe the century, so far. Could there be a better excuse to revise and learn winter related phrases, sayings, idioms and quotes?
Every year, around the first days of December, we update our recipe and culinary idea collection for the holidays. Not only can you surprise your family and friends (and maybe even yourself) with edible novelties coming from your kitchen, but by the time you turn off the oven you will have picked up a lot of new vocabulary or revised some almost forgotten words and phrases about ingredients and cooking processes.
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Vocabulary multiplier

Whether you are a language learner or a teacher wanting to share with your students one of the most amazing keys to expanding vocabulary exponentially, the magic words are…

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November

November is a kind of a countdown to winter. Each day we are one day closer to December, and though we could say that about September, too, November is really starting to tune us to winter…

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Find out about traditions

Isn’t it interesting that just two decades ago a lot of people in Hungary would have been surprised if you had invited them to a Halloween party…

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Word Of The Year 2023 ???

Every year, Oxford Dictionaries announce the Word Of The Year. The winner usually sums up the most significant event or trend of the given calendar year…

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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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