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For the tastebuds – part one

2024-06-22

How convincing or enticing does it sound when you hear the following words? 71 super fresh and easy summer recipes

For the conscious reader – part II

2024-06-14

You arrive home from a week-long holiday, you open your suitcase and the cover of a book stares at you. The cover of a never-opened book that you picked specifically for the holiday that has just ended. I’m sure I’m not the only one who remembers a few book covers like that.

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.

Today is Mothers’ Day

május 3, 2020

It is celebrated on various days around the world, most commonly in March or May. In Hungary we celebrate it on the first Sunday of May. Norway celebrates Mothers as early as the second Sunday of February, while they wait until 22nd December in Indonesia to celebrate it.

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English language TV apps for language learners

április 29, 2020

Using the TV apps below, you can watch language learning programmes and authentic English TV shows on your smart device.

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Find extra motivation

április 25, 2020

Technology, Entertainment and Design or, as most of us know it, TED…

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Everyone makes mistakes

április 22, 2020

EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES… But there are some online spelling and grammar check tools that you can rely on. We have found out about the MOST RECOMMENDED ones.

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Multiply your vocabulary

április 18, 2020

Our learning focus tip for this week is SUFFIXES. Like many other languages, the English language uses suffixes, added to the end of a root word, to change its meaning.

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