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That extra spark of self-motivation

2023-09-16

Sometimes it’s not easy to find the spark of desire for language learning. You know that frustration when you have been planning and scheduling and rescheduling and promising yourself that you will devote some time to language learning in the near future but this near future remains in the future as days and weeks pass by...

For your tea breaks

2023-09-10

Do you know that visitor counter widget built into webpages that tells you how many visits the website has had? That counter on one of our favourite “tea break websites” says thirteen million. Wait, no. It’s thirteen billion. 13,645,024,327 visits since the website was launched...

Oh, the weather

2023-09-04

It’s getting harder to form an opinion on the weather. We are less and less surprised that the weather surprises us. Record highs and record-long hot summer periods without a cloud in the sky used to have the potential to make headlines. Now it would raise more eyebrows if meteorologists predicted a normal, “rulebook” spring, summer, autumn or winter...

An ocean of books

2023-08-27

I wonder how fast our mood and the weather will switch to “autumn mode” this year. The scorching heat has divided us into two groups now: those who escape to the nearest beach whenever they can, and those who do not go out until the sun goes down...

Fast – üzleti és szakmai kommunikáció

2023-08-21

31 év után...

What to do in August – part two

2023-08-13

Last week we posted part one of our mini post series, “What to do in August”. For all of you, adventure-seekers, the remaining 20 days of summer still offers a great variety of promising events...

How to throw an English garden party?

augusztus 3, 2020

Do you know the difference between a barbecue and a garden party? They have less in common than you would expect…

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Research can be fascinating

július 29, 2020

Do you ever wonder about the origin of words? Some words have amazing stories or legends surrounding their origin. For example, most learners of English, sooner or later, come across the famous story behind the word ”sandwich”. (Should you not know that, click on the link below.)

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Harness your curiosity

július 26, 2020

In other words: If you are interested in something and want to find out about it in articles, books, videos, podcasts: look for them in the language that you are learning.

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