How To Ace The New Duolingo English Test
Recently, Duolingo has introduced an English test that is now accepted on par with IELTS and TOEFL at universities worldwide.
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St Petersburg Linguistics Internship For Postgraduate Students
Higher School of International Relations at the Institute of Humanities in St Petersburg, Russia offers a three-month scientific internship program in the field of linguistics for postgraduate students and postdocs.…
DAAD German Language Summer Courses Full Scholarship
International university students are invited to receive full scholarships and develop their German language skills at a state-recognized institution in Germany. Studies take place for at least 18 weeks from…
The Same Pronunciation: Homophones With Entirely Different Meanings
After Words That Radically Change The Meaning When Misspelled and Commonly Misspelled Words comes another group of words that is useful to know. Words that are pronounced the same (while…
Misspelled: Words That Radically Change The Meaning
One of our earlier articles was dedicated to commonly misspelled words. Spelling errors also often happen when words are pronounced incorrectly. Nevertheless, some errors may get a completely new meaning…
Commonly Misspelled Words
The same as in many languages, the English language has it's own confusions in terms of spellings and pronunciation. I've noticed, even the native speakers are sometimes prone to making…
Everyday Oxymorons
Are you trying to figure out what this word actually means? The oxymoron, defined as a figure of speech in which mutually exclusive words appear in combination, would seem at…
Emoji Language – Can You Guess What These Lines Mean?
The beginning of the last century brought several changes that could be placed in the category of shortening – be it the length of women´s skirts, their hair, or even…
Tricky Tongue Twisters
Tongue twisters are certainly not mindless and silly games for children. They are a good exercise for everyone who needs to get fluent and pronounce well in a language –…
Most Spoken Languages in the world
Our world has about 6,500 languages and about one third of them are spoken by a tiny population of less than 1000. On the other hand let’s see which are…
Crutch Words In English
Actually, hmmm . . . all of these and more are words that belong in the category of "crutch words", also known as "filler words". They do not help with…
The Complete Alphabet In A Sentence – Pangrams
To incorporate all the letters of the alphabet into a sentence and ideally use each letter just once – that is a pangram. It is a challenge that works for all…