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If you open a browser and enter today’s date you get four kinds of results: - the one that tells you that September 24th is the 267th day of the year, - the one that tells you your horoscope for today, - the one aiming merely to entertain you with fun facts in connection with today’s date, - and the scarcest one that we would like to recommend you today.
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...
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...
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...
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...
What’s behind tech abbreviations?
március 17, 2020
Everybody knows ✅that WWW stands for World Wide Web, ✅and HDD is Hard Disk Drive. Many of us also know ✅that IP is Internet Protocol, ✅and LAN is Local Area Network or WAN is Wide Area Network. …
HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY!
március 10, 2020
Maya Angelou’s poem „Phenomenal Woman” was published in 1995…
40 words that didn’t exist 40 years ago
március 9, 2020
FAST ENGLISH WEEKLY TIPS ⏩ ⏩ UPDATE YOUR VOCAB
KEEP CALM et parlez Franglais
március 3, 2020
English is full of French words and expressions …
Make the most of Netflix
február 28, 2020
This weekly tip is for Netflix users and for those who are wondering whether it would be a good move to get a Netflix subscription. We have found a Google novelty that came out this February, called LLN, which stands for Learning Languages with Netflix.