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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...

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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