17 proverbs
május 10, 2020
“Proverbs are short sayings that state a truth or offer a piece of advice.” – states the definition.
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...
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...
7 words that are often mispronounced
május 6, 2020
Check the words & the links below to find out if you pronounce these words right…
Today is Mothers’ Day
május 3, 2020
It is celebrated on various days around the world, most commonly in March or May. In Hungary we celebrate it on the first Sunday of May. Norway celebrates Mothers as early as the second Sunday of February, while they wait until 22nd December in Indonesia to celebrate it.
English language TV apps for language learners
április 29, 2020
Using the TV apps below, you can watch language learning programmes and authentic English TV shows on your smart device.
Find extra motivation
április 25, 2020
Technology, Entertainment and Design or, as most of us know it, TED…
Everyone makes mistakes
április 22, 2020
EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES… But there are some online spelling and grammar check tools that you can rely on. We have found out about the MOST RECOMMENDED ones.