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”.
Word Of The Year for 2023, announced by Dictionary dot com, is not a new word. It’s an old word with a new meaning. Each year, trending words and phrases are tracked and analysed. The winner usually sums up in one or two words the most significant event, discovery, crisis or trend of the given calendar year.
It’s one week till Christmas. If you haven’t got to the end of your gift shopping list, you can probably feel the pressure of this countdown.
If white has a superlative form, we can say it’s the whitest December of the decade, maybe the century, so far. Could there be a better excuse to revise and learn winter related phrases, sayings, idioms and quotes?
Every year, around the first days of December, we update our recipe and culinary idea collection for the holidays. Not only can you surprise your family and friends (and maybe even yourself) with edible novelties coming from your kitchen, but by the time you turn off the oven you will have picked up a lot of new vocabulary or revised some almost forgotten words and phrases about ingredients and cooking processes.

Latin abbreviations in English

We know how and when to use most Latin abbreviations, such as: AD – anno Domini – „in the year of the Lord”; A.M. – ante meridiem – „before midday”; P.M – post meridiem – „after midday” …

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Can you spell that, please?

There are certain „imported” words in the English language that have two valid spelling versions – one with special characters coming from the original language – and another version with characters adjusted to the English alphabet.

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Mi történt Tibivel, az angol nyelvtudású mérnökkel?

Nemrégiben az idegen nyelv létfontosságáról beszéltünk. Hiába tudunk jól angolul, hogyha ezt a tudást nem tudjuk megfelelően érvényesíteni a munkahelyünkön, a kapott feladataink ellátása során. Ekkor szokott kialakulni bennünk az aggodalom az állásunk elvesztésével kapcsolatban, hiszen nem tudunk megfelelni a követelményeknek. Jelen esetben a megoldás az, hogy kiváló nyelvtudásunk mellett, a feladataink ellátásához a szakmai nyelv tanulásába is belekezdünk.

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Father’s Day

Depending on where you live on this planet, Father’s Day comes up on different pages of the calendar…

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