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Learning focus: word endings or suffixes >> Tip: a great online resource that you can rely on for finding words with the same ending, for practice and vocabulary expansion.
If you sit down today with a cup of tea or coffee, allow us to recommend something to read.
As the weekend was approaching, more and more “snow-promising” clouds were gathering, so we started to work on a blog entry that’s in sync with the expected white weekend...
Last week we posted part 1 of our traditional mini-series, Word Of The Year. After 2019’s “climate emergency”, 2020’s “pandemic” and 2021’s “vax”, at the end of 2022, with 93 percent of the total votes, a Word Of The Year for 2022 was announced: “goblin mode”
Year by year, Oxford Dictionaries announce the Word Of The Year. Trending words and phrases are tracked and analysed for a 12-month period. The winner usually sums up in one or two words the most significant event, discovery, crisis or trend of the given calendar year...
Multiply your vocabulary
április 18, 2020
Our learning focus tip for this week is SUFFIXES. Like many other languages, the English language uses suffixes, added to the end of a root word, to change its meaning.
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.
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.
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.