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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.

Spring cleaning

2024-04-06

Prepare for this year’s spring cleaning and boost your vocabulary. Spring has sprung and we have a blog entry for you with essential spring cleaning vocabulary, with clear explanations, images and examples.

Weekend research

2024-03-29

This is our DST reminder for those who get too busy with Easter (and April Fools’ Day) preparations this weekend. For those who don’t know, DST stands for ...

Look for our unique hashtag on facebook

április 11, 2020

Now, that everyone spends even more time online we updated our earlier posts on our facebook page and placed a unique hashtag, #fastenglishweeklytips in all our posts.

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The mysterious -A-

április 7, 2020

How can a letter be exciting? 🙂 Not easily 🙂

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Get a global look

április 4, 2020

Politico dot com published ”34 big thinkers’ predictions for what’s to come” that is how the present pandemic will change the world.

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5 words for people who get on your nerves

március 31, 2020

Merriam-webster.com lists these words (and more) in their „Words at Play” series. Let’s see if you have ever heard them and if you know what they mean.

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9 Tips on what to do now

március 28, 2020

FAST ENGLISH WEEKLY TIPS ⏩ ⏩ MAKE THE MOST OF IT Interestingly, it’s Tip Berlin’s website where we found the most practical collection of tips, WRITTEN IN ENGLISH , on what you can do at home during the quarantine…

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