Five years ago we posted a collection, an album with photos of billboards. Not great ones, not original or beautiful billboards. They were all printed with ridiculous and horrendous typos. Now we added 11 more photos.
It’s hard to find someone who hasn’t ever seen or heard of these three letters side by side: TED. It’s much easier to find someone who, though they regularly watch or listen to TED presentations, has never wondered what TED stands for.
New words pop up every day and what seemed to be relevant yesterday may disappear for good in our ever-changing world. And also, there are words and phrases that have already existed but a new meaning got attached to them in a new context.
It was about 4 years ago when we posted a blog entry about the big question: ❓ Are human translators still better than computer translators❓
Revision is an indispensable part of learning a language. It helps you remember and reactivate previously covered vocabulary, grammar and structures, thus increasing your confidence, your accuracy and your fluency.
Last week we posted part 1 of our traditional mini-series, Word Of The Year. After 2019’s“climate emergency”, 2020’s “pandemic”, 2021’s “vax”, and 2022’s “Goblin mode”, at the end of 2023, the Word Of The Year was announced by Dictionary dot com: “hallucinate”.
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.
9 Tips on what to do now
március 28, 2020
FAST ENGLISH WEEKLY TIPS ⏩ ⏩ MAKE THE MOST OF IT Interestingly, it’s Tip Berlin’s website where we found the most practical collection of tips, WRITTEN IN ENGLISH , on what you can do at home during the quarantine…