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If you open a browser and enter today’s date you get four kinds of results: - the one that tells you that September 24th is the 267th day of the year, - the one that tells you your horoscope for today, - the one aiming merely to entertain you with fun facts in connection with today’s date, - and the scarcest one that we would like to recommend you today.
Sometimes it’s not easy to find the spark of desire for language learning. You know that frustration when you have been planning and scheduling and rescheduling and promising yourself that you will devote some time to language learning in the near future but this near future remains in the future as days and weeks pass by...
Do you know that visitor counter widget built into webpages that tells you how many visits the website has had? That counter on one of our favourite “tea break websites” says thirteen million. Wait, no. It’s thirteen billion. 13,645,024,327 visits since the website was launched...
It’s getting harder to form an opinion on the weather. We are less and less surprised that the weather surprises us. Record highs and record-long hot summer periods without a cloud in the sky used to have the potential to make headlines. Now it would raise more eyebrows if meteorologists predicted a normal, “rulebook” spring, summer, autumn or winter...
I wonder how fast our mood and the weather will switch to “autumn mode” this year. The scorching heat has divided us into two groups now: those who escape to the nearest beach whenever they can, and those who do not go out until the sun goes down...
Summer vocabulary 2021
június 21, 2021
Could the summer start without an updated summer vocabulary list in your pocket?
Summer book hunt tip #2
június 13, 2021
A month ago, we posted our pre-summer book hunt tip (link below) If you are a language learner who wants to find some great books for the summer we have another recommendation for you…
Walking Tour App
június 8, 2021
I couldn’t think of a more valuable tip at the beginning of June than VoiceMap’s Walking Tour App.
11,000 words on Children’s Day
május 30, 2021
60,000 characters, 11,000 words about 100 countries in 1 entry: Children’s Day
Top 1000 words in all languages
május 26, 2021
There is a website that was created with the bold endeavour to list the top 1,000 words, that is the most common words, in all languages…
Pre-summer book hunt tip
május 19, 2021
It’s mid-May, we are 2 weeks from the start of summer ‘21 If you are a language learner who wants to find some great books for the summer we have a recommendation for you…