356 x 40 minutes – part two
október 8, 2023
Last week we recommended a language learning and practice podcast series with 356 available episodes. Now episode #357 is out…
Are you familiar with the excitement when you start following a youtuber and you realize they have tens of videos on their channel? Or when you fall in love with the first episode of a TV series and you bathe in the joy of realization that it has 10 complete seasons?
Suddenly, it’s October. As the days get shorter and shorter and we spend more and more time at home, the average “screen” or “display” time per person goes up exponentially...
How many spoken languages do you think there are on this planet? All you have to know to answer that question is the answer to two other questions: - How many countries are there? - What is the average number of languages per country? Then all it takes is a calculator or a pencil and a piece of paper...
We had our first class & plant tour at OSI Food Solutions Hungary.
When we hear “oh, I will send you this link, click on it in your next coffee break”, we tend to assume that it is a funny or a shocking click bait video. Allow us to provide you with an exception...
After another scorching summer, there’s a ray of hope that the weather will, at last, start to change and become a bit more capricious than all throughout the summer of ’22.
356 x 40 minutes – part one
október 1, 2023
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 …
It’s September 24th, so…
szeptember 24, 2023
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.
That extra spark of self-motivation
szeptember 16, 2023
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…
For your tea breaks
szeptember 10, 2023
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…
Oh, the weather
szeptember 4, 2023
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…