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Language for Christmas

2023-12-17

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.

Switch to winter English

2023-12-10

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?

Hundreds of recipes and food ideas for the holidays

2023-12-03

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.

Brain teasers

2023-11-26

We regularly post about playful, relaxing ways to improve your English. You can find blog posts on our website about board games, apps, online games, podcasts, books, movies and series...

Vocabulary multiplier

2023-11-18

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...

November

2023-11-12

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...

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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