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It’s hard to find someone who hasn’t ever seen or heard of these three letters side by side: TED. It’s much easier to find someone who, though they regularly watch or listen to TED presentations, has never wondered what TED stands for.
New words pop up every day and what seemed to be relevant yesterday may disappear for good in our ever-changing world. And also, there are words and phrases that have already existed but a new meaning got attached to them in a new context.
It was about 4 years ago when we posted a blog entry about the big question: ❓ Are human translators still better than computer translators❓
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.
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 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.

November celebrations around the world – part I

Though all the shopwindows and store decorations are suggesting Christmas is around the corner, we are more than a month away from the year-end festivities and there are lots of other celebrations before we start decorating the Christmas tree…

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Today is …

What are we celebrating? Isn’t it interesting that somewhere somebody is celebrating something right now? It’s a weird idea but it’s actually always true…

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A website for your coffee breaks

”Dining alfresco is not the best idea on a day like this.” – Dining what? Dining how? Alfresco? Alfresco is an adverb, it means ”in the fresh air” or ”outdoors”. I wouldn’t know it if I didn’t take regular visits to an amazing, versatile, multi-dimensional, colourful website…

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Ki kicsoda a Fast English-nél?

Mennyire ismered a tanárt, akivel a Fast English nyelvi kurzusain hetente több órát együtt töltesz, és aki ezt az időt értékes tartalommal tölti meg számodra? Te mit tudsz arról az emberről, akinek a nehezen elsajátíthatónak érzett új nyelven próbálsz magadról, a családodról, a munkádról, az éppen aktuális projektjeidről minél pontosabban, választékosabban, nyelvtanilag egyeztetve mesélni? Ki ül veled szemben? Valószínűleg keveset tudsz róla, hiszen az órákon inkább Te beszélsz, kedves olvasó. Az elkövetkező hetekben egy-egy kollégánkat mutatjuk be. Ismerjétek meg őket, ily módon is új témával színesítve a társalgási időt.

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