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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 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.
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.
If white has a superlative form, we can say it’s the whitest December of the decade, maybe the century, so far. Could there be a better excuse to revise and learn winter related phrases, sayings, idioms and quotes?
Every year, around the first days of December, we update our recipe and culinary idea collection for the holidays. Not only can you surprise your family and friends (and maybe even yourself) with edible novelties coming from your kitchen, but by the time you turn off the oven you will have picked up a lot of new vocabulary or revised some almost forgotten words and phrases about ingredients and cooking processes.
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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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Graded books

It wasn’t as easy to find these great resources as we thought it would be: Penguin’s great selection of books graded by 8 levels, from starter to level 7.

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