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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?

Pick a podcast – part two

október 22, 2022

Two weeks ago we shared our podcast discovery with you: a language learning and practice podcast series with 305 available episodes…

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Forbes Flow 2022

október 15, 2022

Az idei Forbes Flow-n ismét összejöttek üzletemberek, cégek, kezdeményezések, akik sikereikről ismertek. A Fast English is megjelent.

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Pick a podcast – part one

október 8, 2022

Are you familiar with the excitement when you start following a youtuber and you realize they have tens of videos on their channel? Or when you fall in love with the first episode of a TV series and you bathe in the joy of realization that it has 10 complete seasons?

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Make the most of your favourite series

október 2, 2022

Suddenly, it’s October. As the days get shorter and shorter and we spend more and more time at home, the average “screen” or “display” time per person goes up exponentially…

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Learn a thousand words

szeptember 24, 2022

How many spoken languages do you think there are on this planet? All you have to know to answer that question is the answer to two other questions: – How many countries are there? – What is the average number of languages per country? Then all it takes is a calculator or a pencil and a piece of paper…

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