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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.

For the conscious reader – part II

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.

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Accents

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.

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Seasonal dictionary

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.

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An oasis of resources

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.

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For the conscious reader

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.

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