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Have you ever faced the challenge of understanding the local accent in an English-speaking country? However good your English is, and even if you are a teacher of English with years of experience, it can be a humbling experience when you get into a taxi in Glasgow and the driver initiates a casual chat with you.
It’s the first day of summer 2024. According to the calendar, it’s time to put your imaginary spring dictionary back on the shelf. If you are ready to dust off your summer English dictionary, we have an updated summer vocabulary list for you.
What you can see hovering over our blog post image are the most common suffixes: -tion, -ity, -er, -ness, -ism, -ment, -ant, -ship, -age, -ery We would like to recommend an oasis of resources for language learners and language teachers. It’s a great tool for language learners whose objective is to get to know some more suffixes, or word endings, in addition to the ones they are already familiar with.
In less than 20 days it’s summer. For conscious language learners who want to find some great books for the summer we have an invaluable link.
Is it Mothers’ Day today? Or Mother’s Day? Or Mothers Day maybe?
Generally, it’s around late spring that city tour high season starts but, as our four seasons are shifting and our climate is changing, I think it’s safer to say that after two weeks of good spring weather in a row, suddenly tourist come out of their caves and appear in the cities...

Last minute presents

If you still have a few question marks on your Christmas gift list but 4 days before Christmas you have serious doubts because: A: You already did your store tour and found empty shelves where you expected to find what you wanted to buy. B: Webshops can’t guarantee that you will get your ordered products before 24th…

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Pick up some culinary vocabulary

Isn’t the winter holiday the best time to expand your cooking related vocabulary? Why wouldn’t you switch to adventurous mode and try some new recipes for this Christmas? By the time you turn off the oven you will have picked up a lot of new vocabulary – if you use our link collection with recipes and ideas…

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Santa Claus – What else?

In Hungary, like in many other countries, Santa Clause is coming to town on 6th December. We had a post on how they call Santa, and why, in different countries and cultures…

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Songs on November

I usually discover it only retrospectively, usually in January, how wonderful November is. It’s not because Thanksgiving is in November, not because Black Friday is in November, either…

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