Can you believe this weather?
szeptember 6, 2022
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.
Mastering a language takes discipline and hard word. No doubt about that. But there is a proverb that says “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” From a mental and physiological point of view I would translate it like this: ...
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...
As many books as you want
augusztus 28, 2022
At the gate of autumn, as days are getting longer, we tend to spend more time at home. We would like to present to you a suspiciously great online library that we found two years ago. By suspiciously we mean that it’s a website which, in return for signing up (FOR FREE), opens the doors of an online library with an ocean of books.
20th August around the world
augusztus 20, 2022
We know what we celebrate on 20th August in Hungary. It’s much less common knowledge for us that this day is a significant day in the Moroccan history, too. And if you work for NASA you know that the launch of the Voyager 2 spacecraft also took place on this day almost half a century ago…
Words born in ’22
augusztus 14, 2022
Language never stops evolving. Some words become obsolete and gradually disappear and new words appear on the horizon every day…
223 summer recipes – part II
augusztus 7, 2022
A few days ago we posted part one of our two-part mini series on summer recipes…
