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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.
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…