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For the tastebuds – part one

2024-06-22

How convincing or enticing does it sound when you hear the following words? 71 super fresh and easy summer recipes

For the conscious reader – part II

2024-06-14

You arrive home from a week-long holiday, you open your suitcase and the cover of a book stares at you. The cover of a never-opened book that you picked specifically for the holiday that has just ended. I’m sure I’m not the only one who remembers a few book covers like that.

Accents

2024-06-09

Have you ever faced the challenge of understanding the local accent in an English-speaking country? However good your English is, and even if you are a teacher of English with years of experience, it can be a humbling experience when you get into a taxi in Glasgow and the driver initiates a casual chat with you.

Seasonal dictionary

2024-06-01

It’s the first day of summer 2024. According to the calendar, it’s time to put your imaginary spring dictionary back on the shelf. If you are ready to dust off your summer English dictionary, we have an updated summer vocabulary list for you.

An oasis of resources

2024-05-26

What you can see hovering over our blog post image are the most common suffixes: -tion, -ity, -er, -ness, -ism, -ment, -ant, -ship, -age, -ery We would like to recommend an oasis of resources for language learners and language teachers. It’s a great tool for language learners whose objective is to get to know some more suffixes, or word endings, in addition to the ones they are already familiar with.

For the conscious reader

2024-05-12

In less than 20 days it’s summer. For conscious language learners who want to find some great books for the summer we have an invaluable link.

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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