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.
We would like to introduce you to 7 words that are either new or are used more and more frequently in a new context in 2023...
Learning focus: word endings or suffixes >> Tip: a great online resource that you can rely on for finding words with the same ending, for practice and vocabulary expansion.
If you sit down today with a cup of tea or coffee, allow us to recommend something to read.
As the weekend was approaching, more and more “snow-promising” clouds were gathering, so we started to work on a blog entry that’s in sync with the expected white weekend...
Last week we posted part 1 of our traditional mini-series, Word Of The Year. After 2019’s “climate emergency”, 2020’s “pandemic” and 2021’s “vax”, at the end of 2022, with 93 percent of the total votes, a Word Of The Year for 2022 was announced: “goblin mode”
Year by year, Oxford Dictionaries announce the Word Of The Year. Trending words and phrases are tracked and analysed for a 12-month period. The winner usually sums up in one or two words the most significant event, discovery, crisis or trend of the given calendar year...
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…
The future of the English language
március 24, 2020
HOW WILL ENGLISH SOUND IN 100 YEARS? There are several theories on how the English language will evolve in the next 10, 20, 50 or 100 years…
What’s behind tech abbreviations?
március 17, 2020
Everybody knows ✅that WWW stands for World Wide Web, ✅and HDD is Hard Disk Drive. Many of us also know ✅that IP is Internet Protocol, ✅and LAN is Local Area Network or WAN is Wide Area Network. …
HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY!
március 10, 2020
Maya Angelou’s poem „Phenomenal Woman” was published in 1995…