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Accents

2024-06-09

Have you ever faced the challenge of understanding the local accent in an English-speaking country? However good your English is, and even if you are a teacher of English with years of experience, it can be a humbling experience when you get into a taxi in Glasgow and the driver initiates a casual chat with you.

Seasonal dictionary

2024-06-01

It’s the first day of summer 2024. According to the calendar, it’s time to put your imaginary spring dictionary back on the shelf. If you are ready to dust off your summer English dictionary, we have an updated summer vocabulary list for you.

An oasis of resources

2024-05-26

What you can see hovering over our blog post image are the most common suffixes: -tion, -ity, -er, -ness, -ism, -ment, -ant, -ship, -age, -ery We would like to recommend an oasis of resources for language learners and language teachers. It’s a great tool for language learners whose objective is to get to know some more suffixes, or word endings, in addition to the ones they are already familiar with.

For the conscious reader

2024-05-12

In less than 20 days it’s summer. For conscious language learners who want to find some great books for the summer we have an invaluable link.

The hyphen mystery

2024-05-05

Is it Mothers’ Day today? Or Mother’s Day? Or Mothers Day maybe?

21st century tourists

2024-04-28

Generally, it’s around late spring that city tour high season starts but, as our four seasons are shifting and our climate is changing, I think it’s safer to say that after two weeks of good spring weather in a row, suddenly tourist come out of their caves and appear in the cities...

The perfect coffee break link

szeptember 11, 2022

When we hear “oh, I will send you this link, click on it in your next coffee break”, we tend to assume that it is a funny or a shocking click bait video. Allow us to provide you with an exception…

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Can you believe this weather?

szeptember 6, 2022

After another scorching summer, there’s a ray of hope that the weather will, at last, start to change and become a bit more capricious than all throughout the summer of ’22.

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As many books as you want

augusztus 28, 2022

At the gate of autumn, as days are getting longer, we tend to spend more time at home. We would like to present to you a suspiciously great online library that we found two years ago. By suspiciously we mean that it’s a website which, in return for signing up (FOR FREE), opens the doors of an online library with an ocean of books.

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20th August around the world

augusztus 20, 2022

We know what we celebrate on 20th August in Hungary. It’s much less common knowledge for us that this day is a significant day in the Moroccan history, too. And if you work for NASA you know that the launch of the Voyager 2 spacecraft also took place on this day almost half a century ago…

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