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Accents

2024-06-09

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.

Seasonal dictionary

2024-06-01

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.

An oasis of resources

2024-05-26

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.

For the conscious reader

2024-05-12

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.

The hyphen mystery

2024-05-05

Is it Mothers’ Day today? Or Mother’s Day? Or Mothers Day maybe?

21st century tourists

2024-04-28

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...

Create your own crossword puzzles

október 3, 2020

You can find quite a few options if you google “crossword puzzle creator”. We looked at most of them to find the most ease-to-use and practical ones.

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Google tips

október 3, 2020

It’s Google’s 22nd birthday today! So, we are dedicating this post to Google, more specifically to ways Google can help language learners.

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Find meaningful news

október 2, 2020

The U.N. Climate Action Summit is a great excuse for some reading practice. If you are looking for some reading materials, you can read many press releases.

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English connectors

szeptember 21, 2020

What??? We are talking about words and phrases that connect sentences and paragraphs. On the one hand, each of them has their specific function; on the other hand, they serve as elegant decoration in conversation or writing; …

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Élménymeeting

szeptember 16, 2020

„Már szinte természetesen tudom kezelni, ha a külföldi kollégákkal kell egyeztetnem angolul.” Zsuzsa, az egyik tanítványom nagyon izgatottan jelentkezett be egyik reggel a szokásos heti angolórára. Az ok az volt, hogy olyan pozitív élményben részesült előző nap a munkahelyi nemzetközi online meetingen, amire semmiképpen sem számított előtte.

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