It’s September 24th, so…

2023-09-24

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.

That extra spark of self-motivation

2023-09-16

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...

For your tea breaks

2023-09-10

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...

Oh, the weather

2023-09-04

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...

An ocean of books

2023-08-27

I wonder how fast our mood and the weather will switch to “autumn mode” this year. The scorching heat has divided us into two groups now: those who escape to the nearest beach whenever they can, and those who do not go out until the sun goes down...

Fast – üzleti és szakmai kommunikáció

2023-08-21

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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.

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.

Easter expertise

április 14, 2020

How familiar are you with Easter „terminology”?