Learn 7 new English words
február 11, 2023
We would like to introduce you to 7 words that are either new or are used more and more frequently in a new context in 2023…
Is it Mothers’ Day today? Or Mother’s Day? Or Mothers Day maybe? In Hungarian, there is no dilemma around the spelling of Anyák napja. In English, however, hyphenation raises a question. We have found out about it and put a link in our blog post, in case you have any doubt about that hyphen...
We are less than 2 days from May. The high season for city tours starts around late spring and lasts until early autumn. We would like to help you get ready, in an unusual way.
On an easy Sunday afternoon like this, we recommend that you sit back and, for some light reading practice, join us in figuring out what on earth the term international pixel-stained technopeasant means and why it is mentioned on the same page as the London Marathon and Shakespeare.
Don’t you find it interesting that sometimes, in a ten-word sentence, there are at least five words that did not exist a few decades ago?
Easter traditions vary not only from country to country but also even neighbouring regions of the same country celebrate Easter in different ways...
Why did the first day of April become April Fools’ Day? Is it a global phenomenon? What are the craziest and most famous April Fools’ Day pranks?
Find the best online tools
február 4, 2023
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.
A 3-minute reading break
január 29, 2023
If you sit down today with a cup of tea or coffee, allow us to recommend something to read.
10 ways to describe winter weather
január 21, 2023
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…
Word Of The Year 2022 – part 2
január 14, 2023
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”
Word Of The Year 2022 – part 1
január 8, 2023
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…