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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.
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...
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...
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...
I wonder how fast our mood and the weather will switch to “autumn mode” this year. The scorching heat has divided us into two groups now: those who escape to the nearest beach whenever they can, and those who do not go out until the sun goes down...
Words born in ’22
augusztus 14, 2022
Language never stops evolving. Some words become obsolete and gradually disappear and new words appear on the horizon every day…
223 summer recipes – part II
augusztus 7, 2022
A few days ago we posted part one of our two-part mini series on summer recipes…
Beat the heat
július 24, 2022
Have you had enough of the sun? Have you found a blanket-size free spot in the shade? Do you feel like sitting back and having a crossword siesta?
Ice cream, yellow pigs and justice
július 17, 2022
What is common in peach ice cream, yellow pigs, emojis, tattoos and international justice? Isn’t it obvious? We celebrate them on the same day every year.
