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Is it Mothers’ Day today? Or Mother’s Day? Or Mothers Day maybe?
Generally, it’s around late spring that city tour high season starts but, as our four seasons are shifting and our climate is changing, I think it’s safer to say that after two weeks of good spring weather in a row, suddenly tourist come out of their caves and appear in the cities...
Once or twice a year, we invite you, just for fun, just as a light Sunday afternoon reading tip, to join us and find out what we celebrate on that given day around the world...
In music, when new artists appear, we talk about one-hit wonders and real stars with long-lasting fame and recognition. It’s the same with new words in a language. New words appear, we start using them, some of them become part of our most frequently used active vocabulary, other words become popular for some time and then disappear for good.
Prepare for this year’s spring cleaning and boost your vocabulary. Spring has sprung and we have a blog entry for you with essential spring cleaning vocabulary, with clear explanations, images and examples.
This is our DST reminder for those who get too busy with Easter (and April Fools’ Day) preparations this weekend. For those who don’t know, DST stands for ...

Language for Christmas

It’s one week till Christmas. If you haven’t got to the end of your gift shopping list, you can probably feel the pressure of this countdown.

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Switch to winter English

If white has a superlative form, we can say it’s the whitest December of the decade, maybe the century, so far. Could there be a better excuse to revise and learn winter related phrases, sayings, idioms and quotes?

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Hundreds of recipes and food ideas for the holidays

Every year, around the first days of December, we update our recipe and culinary idea collection for the holidays. Not only can you surprise your family and friends (and maybe even yourself) with edible novelties coming from your kitchen, but by the time you turn off the oven you will have picked up a lot of new vocabulary or revised some almost forgotten words and phrases about ingredients and cooking processes.

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Brain teasers

We regularly post about playful, relaxing ways to improve your English. You can find blog posts on our website about board games, apps, online games, podcasts, books, movies and series…

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Vocabulary multiplier

Whether you are a language learner or a teacher wanting to share with your students one of the most amazing keys to expanding vocabulary exponentially, the magic words are…

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November

November is a kind of a countdown to winter. Each day we are one day closer to December, and though we could say that about September, too, November is really starting to tune us to winter…

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