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Is it Mothers’ Day today? Or Mother’s Day? Or Mothers Day maybe? In Hungarian, there is no dilemma around the spelling of Anyák napja. In English, however, hyphenation raises a question. We have found out about it and put a link in our blog post, in case you have any doubt about that hyphen...
We are less than 2 days from May. The high season for city tours starts around late spring and lasts until early autumn. We would like to help you get ready, in an unusual way.
On an easy Sunday afternoon like this, we recommend that you sit back and, for some light reading practice, join us in figuring out what on earth the term international pixel-stained technopeasant means and why it is mentioned on the same page as the London Marathon and Shakespeare.
Don’t you find it interesting that sometimes, in a ten-word sentence, there are at least five words that did not exist a few decades ago?
Easter traditions vary not only from country to country but also even neighbouring regions of the same country celebrate Easter in different ways...
Why did the first day of April become April Fools’ Day? Is it a global phenomenon? What are the craziest and most famous April Fools’ Day pranks?

Language super power???

Do you know this classic /see image/ that used to be in circulation in an old chain mail? This paragraph contains a bunch of jumbled letters and you are still able to read it at a normal pace…

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The Weather

September is here. Isn’t it the best opportunity to chit-chat about the weather? How hot the summer was… How we were all looking forward to the end of the scorching heat… How great it will be to take a walk on a chilly morning at last… And how much we will miss it in a couple of months…

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Expand your vocabulary

Do you want to expand your vocabulary focussing on a specific topic? There aren’t any sources that would be complete and perfect for your needs…

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Language apps: 2020 update

Language apps come as a handy tool for language learners. We wanted to update our language app recommendation list, so we dived into online research.

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Do some research

Research can be adventurous. Here’s an example: I travelled on a Virgin train from London to Liverpool recently and I heard the funniest automated announcement in the toilet…

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