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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...

Seriously?

2024-04-20

Once or twice a year, we invite you, just for fun, just as a light Sunday afternoon reading tip, to join us and find out what we celebrate on that given day around the world...

Troll, boop, trill and others

2024-04-13

In music, when new artists appear, we talk about one-hit wonders and real stars with long-lasting fame and recognition. It’s the same with new words in a language. New words appear, we start using them, some of them become part of our most frequently used active vocabulary, other words become popular for some time and then disappear for good.

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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