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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...

10 ways to describe winter weather

január 21, 2023

As the weekend was approaching, more and more “snow-promising” clouds were gathering, so we started to work on a blog entry that’s in sync with the expected white weekend…

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Word Of The Year 2022 – part 2

január 14, 2023

Last week we posted part 1 of our traditional mini-series, Word Of The Year. After 2019’s “climate emergency”, 2020’s “pandemic” and 2021’s “vax”, at the end of 2022, with 93 percent of the total votes, a Word Of The Year for 2022 was announced: “goblin mode”

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Word Of The Year 2022 – part 1

január 8, 2023

Year by year, Oxford Dictionaries announce the Word Of The Year. Trending words and phrases are tracked and analysed for a 12-month period. The winner usually sums up in one or two words the most significant event, discovery, crisis or trend of the given calendar year…

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Go to …

november 26, 2022

When you are searching for information you often bump into Wikipedia links. Wikipedia entries are available in several languages which is convenient and useful, however there are two potential challenges …

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Update your recipe book

november 19, 2022

11 days till December… If you want to be prepared for the winter of 2022 we can help you with great resources in one of the essential focus areas: winter recipes…

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