On this day in history
there was the Gunpowder Plot in London in 1605. Centuries later, school children get the story drummed into them and learn to recite “Remember, Remember, 5of November, gunpowder, treason and …
WED 1 on SALE now
I’m stoked to announce the launch of my second book, Walking English Dictionary 1 (WED 1). Here’s my pitch for the book: “Everyone admires someone who can speak another foreign …
www.thelocal.de
Want to read the German news in English for free? The local is the place to go. I guess the target audience is actually non-German speakers, who are interested in …
Wonderful Wednesday Words: Short.
The prefix ‘short’ is a clever tool for your English toolkit and here are 7 ways you could use it in your daily work: 1. In the short term, we’ll …
Speak like a native with a bit of extra help from Yiddish.
When listening or reading, mainly American English, you may often come across Yiddish words. ‚Yiddish is a Germanic language, originally spoken by the Jews of Central and later Eastern Europe‘ …