
Do you know the difference between a barbecue and a garden party? They have less in common than you would expect...
Do you ever wonder about the origin of words? Some words have amazing stories or legends surrounding their origin. For example, most learners of English, sooner or later, come across the famous story behind the word ”sandwich”. (Should you not know that, click on the link below.)
In other words: If you are interested in something and want to find out about it in articles, books, videos, podcasts: look for them in the language that you are learning.
We have 9 super-weird but existing English words for you. The question is:
Do you know who polyglots are? Lydia Machova’s TED talk about the secrets of learning a new language has close to 8.5 million views...
Have you tried learning English with music yet? This is the perfect way to have fun while you improve your English skills.


Fresh and easy summer recipes – part one
június 25, 2023
How about improving your English by diving into recipes of summer desserts, sandwiches, salads and drinks? Here comes part one of our mini-series…

Get more books for the summer
június 18, 2023
We posted our summer reading tips a month ago. That’s not all we have for you…

English accents around the world
június 11, 2023
We would like to invite you to a very entertaining research trip around the world: This is our English Accent Tour…

Summer vocabulary
június 4, 2023
Welcome to June! Let’s start the summer with an updated summer vocabulary list …

Fast English weekly tips
május 28, 2023
We launched our blog, Fast English weekly tips, and introduced our unique hashtag #fastenglishweeklytips on facebook years ago, to share with you what we find, week by week, as a result of our research to make the time that you devote to language learning colourful, interesting and fun, in addition to being useful, of course…