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Last week we recommended a language learning and practice podcast series with 356 available episodes. Now episode #357 is out...
356 episodes… It’s a dream come true when you start listening to a podcast or following a youtuber and you realize they have uploaded more than three hundred episodes ...
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...
Fun Quiz on 4th July
július 4, 2021
You can easily find historical facts about Independence Day in any history books. What history books don’t have is fun facts about 4th July. That’s why we made this blog post for you.
Pineapples, sunglasses and more
június 27, 2021
What is common in pineapples, sunglasses, log cabins, orange blossoms and industrial workers?
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