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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 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.
It was about 4 years ago when we posted a blog entry about the big question: ❓ Are human translators still better than computer translators❓
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.
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 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.
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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. …
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HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY!
március 10, 2020
Maya Angelou’s poem „Phenomenal Woman” was published in 1995…
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40 words that didn’t exist 40 years ago
március 9, 2020
FAST ENGLISH WEEKLY TIPS ⏩ ⏩ UPDATE YOUR VOCAB
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KEEP CALM et parlez Franglais
március 3, 2020
English is full of French words and expressions …
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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.