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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.
Language & Health
május 9, 2021
There must be fascinating ways to combine language learning and keeping fit but our title “Language & health” refers to something else.
Sunday info snack
május 9, 2021
It’s Sunday morning, allow us to serve you a light info snack…
Multilingual digital platform
április 27, 2021
In a press release published this week, the Conference on the Future of Europe announced the launch of its multilingual digital platform.
One-minute quiz
április 19, 2021
11 items are listed below. Believe it or not, there is only ONE that is not commemorated or celebrated today (somewhere on the planet)…
Spring celebrations around the world
április 4, 2021
As spring arrives people around the world celebrate different things and commemorate different events in different ways…
