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Last week we recommended a language learning and practice podcast series with 356 available episodes. Now episode #357 is out...
356 episodes… It’s a dream come true when you start listening to a podcast or following a youtuber and you realize they have uploaded more than three hundred episodes ...
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...
Simplified English
június 14, 2020
We all know that when we open a manual written in English we find simplified wording, less complex sentences and basic grammar…
How to motivate yourself to learn a language
június 10, 2020
Regardless of why we may lose our motivation, there are a few things you can do to work through it…
Mi a baj a céges nyelvoktatással?
június 5, 2020
Mára az idegen nyelv létfontosságúvá vált az üzleti életben, az angol nyelv nélkül szinte lehetetlen elhelyezkedni. Az egyetemekről ugyan nyelvvizsgával jönnek ki a frissen végzettek, de még a szakmailag magasan képzett alkalmazottakat tekintve is gyakran felmerül az igény, hogy nyelvileg képezzék őket. Aki valaha foglalkozott céges nyelvi képzésekkel, meg fogja erősíteni, hogy nem könnyű feladat a hatékony oktatás kivitelezése.
Jokes in English
június 3, 2020
Good jokes can be good ice-breakers . & Really bad jokes can break the ice, too .
