Multiply your vocabulary
április 18, 2020
Our learning focus tip for this week is SUFFIXES. Like many other languages, the English language uses suffixes, added to the end of a root word, to change its meaning.
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...
Look for our unique hashtag on facebook
április 11, 2020
Now, that everyone spends even more time online we updated our earlier posts on our facebook page and placed a unique hashtag, #fastenglishweeklytips in all our posts.
Get a global look
április 4, 2020
Politico dot com published ”34 big thinkers’ predictions for what’s to come” that is how the present pandemic will change the world.
5 words for people who get on your nerves
március 31, 2020
Merriam-webster.com lists these words (and more) in their „Words at Play” series. Let’s see if you have ever heard them and if you know what they mean.