von Thom | Mittwoch, Oktober 28, 2020 | Get informed
Animals stuck in rooms are apparently a great source for idioms. Remember our post about there being „no room to swing a cat“? Today we will finally address the elephant in the room. Parts of this idiom are fairly straightforward. It is easy to imagine a...
von Thom | Montag, Oktober 26, 2020 | Get informed
This living hand, now warm and capableBy John Keats This living hand, now warm and capableOf earnest grasping, would, if it were coldAnd in the icy silence of the tomb,So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nightsThat thou would wish thine own heart dry of bloodSo...
von Ioana Bianca Chiotoroiu | Mittwoch, Oktober 21, 2020 | Get informed
Wren StrongEagle, an Indigenous artist with a thriving pottery business and a loving husband, lives in Qu’Apelle, Saskatchewan. She falls into depression after miscarrying her baby, also triggering her to truly process the past in which she was abused. Her twin...
von Thom | Mittwoch, Oktober 14, 2020 | Get informed
When you first started learning English, you may have struggled with some patterns. You may have realised that there are a good number of words that are not pronounced the way you expected, in fact, there are words that are spelled virtually identically, yet...
von Merve Yilmaz | Donnerstag, Oktober 1, 2020 | Get informed, Learn, Writing effectively
As university students, most of us have to submit academic papers at some point and all of us experience some form of struggle in the writing process. During the ongoing pandemic with its necessary restrictions you might have felt less intrinsically motivated to...
von Thom | Montag, September 28, 2020 | Get informed
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell 01 Had we but world enough and time,02 This coyness, lady, were no crime.03 We would sit down, and think which way04 To walk, and pass our long love’s day.05 Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side06 Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide07...