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Human translators vs CAT

2024-01-28

It was about 4 years ago when we posted a blog entry about the big question: ❓ Are human translators still better than computer translators❓

The value of revision

2024-01-20

Revision is an indispensable part of learning a language. It helps you remember and reactivate previously covered vocabulary, grammar and structures, thus increasing your confidence, your accuracy and your fluency.

Word Of The Year 2023 – part 2

2024-01-14

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 2023 – part 1

2024-01-07

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.

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?

Refreshing summer language cocktail

július 30, 2023

We do our best to write blog posts that are related to current dates, events or seasons. So, if it’s 30th July, this blog post is destined to be about something “summer-y”…

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Crossword Puzzles

július 23, 2023

The difference between 50 and 10,000 is significant. That’s the difference between the number of crossword puzzles that you get buying a crossword magazine and downloading a crossword app…

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Find out what we celebrate today

július 15, 2023

Once or twice a year we navigate you to a site where you can dive into what we celebrate on that given day around the world…

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Language learning apps – 2023 update

július 9, 2023

Each year, some time in July, we run a research to find the best FREE language learning apps. We launched this mid-summer blog topic years ago to inspire language learners to make the most of their “smart phone time” while sitting in the shade on the beach…

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