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How To Ask For Help In English

It’s August – and that means it’s summer holiday time for many people in the Northern Hemisphere! If you’re a smart traveller, you will have thought about many of the things you need to keep you safe...

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8 Useful English Words and Phrases for the Airport

English is much of the world’s second language – and that’s certainly true when it comes to airports and planes. While they are in the air, pilots have to give announcements in English by law. No...

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The English Learner’s Guide to UK Festivals

The UK might not have the most reliable weather or the warmest summers, but that doesn’t stop the British from going crazy for a summer festival! The main music festivals include Glastonbury, Bestival,...

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Everything You Need to Know About Freshers’ Week in the UK

It’s September – and that means the end of the summer holidays and the start of term for schools, colleges and universities all over the UK. If you’re about to start your degree course in Britain,...

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7 Excellent Podcasts for English Learners

Podcasts are a great resource for improving your listening skills, and they’re really easy to fit into your life. You can download some to listen to, for example, while you’re commuting or travelling,...

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12 Back-to-School Idioms

If you’re studying English (or studying at an English-language college or university), the first term of the new school year will now have begun! At this time of year, you may also notice how many...

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Useful Phrases for Dealing with Your English-Speaking Landlord

When you’re renting a flat or house anywhere in the world, there will be times when things go wrong and you need to call your landlord. If you’re renting somewhere to live in an English-speaking...

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How Did English Become The “Global” Language?

Once upon a time, Latin was the most important language in the world, with people across Europe, Africa and Asia desperate to learn it to improve their situation in life. Then, for nearly a thousand...

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How Translation Helps You Get to Grips With Another Language

In recent years, translation has gone out of fashion as a way to learn a new language. A lot of people say that it’s a bad way to learn because it keeps you thinking in your mother tongue, rather than...

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A Murder of Crows… and Other Unusual Collective Noun

As I’m sure you already know, when you’re talking about just one of something in English, you always use the definite article (the) or indefinite article (a or an). The definite article is used when...

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