Blog

Technology, Entertainment and Design

2024-02-11

It’s hard to find someone who hasn’t ever seen or heard of these three letters side by side: TED. It’s much easier to find someone who, though they regularly watch or listen to TED presentations, has never wondered what TED stands for.

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.

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.

Bővebben

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.

Bővebben

Find extra motivation

április 25, 2020

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

Bővebben

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.

Bővebben

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.

Bővebben