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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.

Let’s talk about the weather

The summer of 2021 was one never-ending scorching heat wave. At least, that’s how I remember it. The wardrobe boxes labelled „spring” remained unopened this year. After March, April and May that were annoyingly windy and cold we suddenly found ourselves in the middle of a dry and merciless, hot summer. Now, at long last, here we are in unpredictable, rhapsodic September…

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Hungarian Poems in English

September is here. Why don’t we spend our next coffee or tea break reading the English translations of some well-known Hungarian poems on autumn? Just for fun, or out of literary curiosity…

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Women’s Equality Day

When you hear about women’s right to vote you would think that equal voting rights have been around for 200 years at least. In a civilised world it would be obvious. August 26th is Women’s Equality Day in the USA, so we dived into this topic…

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Summer in words

We are a week away from the end of August. We wanted to make a collection of sayings, proverbs and quotations about summer for you…

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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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