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New English Words

2024-02-03

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.

Human translators vs CAT

2024-01-28

It was about 4 years ago when we posted a blog entry about the big question: ❓ Are human translators still better than computer translators❓

The value of revision

2024-01-20

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.

Word Of The Year 2023 – part 2

2024-01-14

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 2023 – part 1

2024-01-07

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 for Christmas

2023-12-17

It’s one week till Christmas. If you haven’t got to the end of your gift shopping list, you can probably feel the pressure of this countdown.

Easy like Sunday morning

szeptember 14, 2020

Did you know that we (I mean people living on this planet) celebrate 11 different things on 13th September?

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Thank you, Shakespeare

szeptember 10, 2020

We owe more English words to Shakespeare than one would think…

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Make the most of your coffee break

szeptember 6, 2020

Practice makes a master. Everybody knows that. But not everybody has the super power to find the time to get daily language practice…

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Language super power???

szeptember 2, 2020

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

augusztus 31, 2020

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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