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Your daily dose of English, now in a handy (get it?) app
Digital technology and the internet as a whole is not one of Germany’s strong suits. This starts in schools, where the current pandemic only highlights this predicament: when schools first had to close, all of a sudden everybody was forced to use computers to learn. Unfortunately, schools were not prepared and in many cases the…
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1066: the Norman Conquest, bury your fury for the English language
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 pronounced differently. Why are the words fury and bury pronounced so…
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Game of Languages
With a hugely successful television show like Game of Thrones coming to a close, it is worthwhile looking back at some aspects that have played an important part whilst being in the background. Both the books by George R. R. Martin that the show is based on and the television series itself feature fictional languages:…