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In Hungary, like in many other countries, Santa Clause is coming to town on 6th December. We had a post on how they call Santa, and why, in different countries and cultures...
Kommunikációs hajlandóság vs. szorongás, avagy miért nem merünk megszólalni angolul? 3.része. Ahogy az előző hetekben beszámoltam nektek, a Fast English-nél céges nyelvi képzésben résztvevő 185 hallgató körében egy kisebb kutatást végeztünk annak felderítésére, hogy miért nem merünk angolul megszólalni.
Előző alkalommal beszámoltam nektek arról, hogy a Fast English egy kisebb kutatást végzett arról, hogy miért is nem merünk megszólalni angolul, vagyis miért van az, hogy egy magas szinten lévő hallgató vonakodik attól, hogy egyetlen szót is kiejtsen egy megbeszélésen, ha nem feltétlenül muszáj, míg egy alacsonyabb szinten lévő hallgató adott esetben sokkal bátrabb.
I usually discover it only retrospectively, usually in January, how wonderful November is. It’s not because Thanksgiving is in November, not because Black Friday is in November, either...
This Friday is Friday 13th !!! The Evening Standard published an article about the origins to this mysterious superstition...
English is spoken all around the world but it’s not the same English all arond the world…

356 x 40 minutes – part one

356 episodes… It’s a dream come true when you start listening to a podcast or following a youtuber and you realize they have uploaded more than three hundred episodes …

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It’s September 24th, so…

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.

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That extra spark of self-motivation

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…

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For your tea breaks

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…

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Oh, the weather

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…

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