40 words that didn’t exist 40 years ago
március 9, 2020
FAST ENGLISH WEEKLY TIPS ⏩ ⏩ UPDATE YOUR VOCAB
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.
KEEP CALM et parlez Franglais
március 3, 2020
English is full of French words and expressions …
Make the most of Netflix
február 28, 2020
This weekly tip is for Netflix users and for those who are wondering whether it would be a good move to get a Netflix subscription. We have found a Google novelty that came out this February, called LLN, which stands for Learning Languages with Netflix.
Instant Quiz
február 25, 2020
An instant „DID YOU KNOW” quiz for advanced learners of English: >>> see image <<<
Mi mindent tanultam a japánoktól?
február 13, 2020
Az első szakdolgozatomat jó pár évvel ezelőtt Japánról, a nemzetköziesedés – azaz kokusaika [国際化] (magyar fonetikával: kokuszajka) – folyamatáról írtam. Ennek keretében az ország és az ott lakók számos erényét és egyben a nyitási szándékokat hátráltató, az igazi nyitottságot akadályozó tényezőket is igyekeztem feltárni. Ebből szeretnék néhány gondolatot átadni.