Sveiki! (that’s hello in Lithuanian). How are you today? We are inspired by the following sentence: “It’s not about success or failure, it’s about choosing to learn or not learn” We believe so many of ...
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The Origin of “Thank you”
Well, hello! Let’s start today’s mini lesson. English people are famous for being polite. And one way of being polite is to always, always, always say “please” and “thank you”. In English, “thank you” derives ...
Read More »Learn English with the News: “Banksy in New York”
Hi! How are you today? We would love to know, so tell us in the comments’ section below! Almost everyone knows Banksy, the famous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter. This news article ...
Read More »10 Rules from Richard Diebenkorn part I
Hello! Apa kabar? (that’s “how are you” in bahasa Indonesian). Richard Diebenkorn was a well-known 20th century American painter. His early work is associated with Abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s ...
Read More »International Day of the Girl
Helloooo! It’s Friday today, are you looking forward to the weekend? We sure are! In an interview by HuffPost to Eliana Stanislawski, the United States Actions Coordinator for IDC: “We need a Day of the Girl. Girls experience ...
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Annyeong haseyo! (that’s hello in Korean). Remember how awesome Kaplan‘s infographic was? Remember what an infographic was? In case you don’t, it’s a lot of information transformed into a graphic visual representation. That way, we can ...
Read More »Learn English with Songs: “Vincent”
Good morning and welcome to Wednesday! One of our students, Hildgund, sent us an email suggesting this beautiful song by Don McLean. This is the song we will be learning English with today. Ready? 1. Read ...
Read More »Learn English with the News: “The ultimate bottle of wine”
as-salām ‘alaykum! (that’s hello in Arabic). We chose Arabic today because this news story is from Dubai, where they just unveiled the most expensive bottle of wine in the world! 1. Read the text 2. ...
Read More »11 Untranslatable Words from Other Cultures
Good day! Welcome to our little corner of the Internet. This article is from the Huffington Post but we had to share it on our blog, because it’s so awesome to remember all of the ...
Read More »A Free English Level Test!
Huānyíng! (that’s “welcome” in Chinese). How are you this Thursday? We hope you are supercalifragilisticexpialidociously happy! Are you? So today we wanted to remind you of the ABA English Free English Level Test! What is it? ...
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