#NewWord2020 – week 2 of our action!

On 31 August 2020   /   News, Translations News   /   Leave a comment
#NewWord2020 – week 2 of our action!

Last week’s #NewWord2020 posts were very diverse – sports, foods, bioengineering, astronomy… They perfectly reflect the complexity of our contemporary life and how the language may illustrate it. Let us take a look at the seven new words we have found for you this past week. Were you surprised by any of them? 🙂 Second week of #NewWords2020 farm-fresh – (of food, drink, or flavour) very fresh or fresh-tasting, (as if) coming straight from the farm, garbage time – a period of time towards the end of a game in which one team has such a substantial lead that the outcome is no longer in doubt, shot clock – a clock that displays a countdown of the time within which a shot must be attempted, antitail – a luminous protuberance which appears to extend from a comet?s head towards the sun, athleisure – casual, comfortable clothing or footwear designed to

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Let’s kick off – #NewWords2020

On 21 August 2020   /   News   /   Leave a comment
Let’s kick off – #NewWords2020

The world around us is constantly changing. With new inventions, ideas and achievements, we gain not only greater life comfort and broader knowledge, but also… new words! We love to discover the expressions that pop up in various areas, and we enjoy sharing them even more. To this end, we have prepared a series of Facebook posts ? each day, we upload one word that has been recently added to the Oxford English online dictionary. Here, on our website, we are going to post weekly summaries of our action in social media. New words we have discovered this week In the first week of our #NewWords2020 action, we learnt some new scientific and informal words. Ready? Enoughness ? the quality or fact of being enough; sufficiency, adequacy. Denialist ? a person who denies the existence or reality of something, esp. something which is supported by the majority of scientific or

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Pronunciation dictionaries that can boost your learning

On 31 July 2019   /   News   /   Leave a comment
Pronunciation dictionaries that can boost your learning

Learning a language is a multilayered phenomenon, with mastering the pronunciation as one of the elements of this process. Languages may share the alphabet, but they differ in producing the sounds ascribed to each letter or combination of letters. Grasping the proper way of pronouncing words proves whether you are an attentive student and a person striving for a near-native command of a language. Pronunciation dictionaries are a very underestimated tool that can assist you in achieving this goal. We gathered three titles that you may find very useful while practising your pronunciation. https://howjsay.com/ This online pronunciation dictionary is a very useful tool for those who learn better from audio materials. All you need to do it type in a word you want to research and choose the entry you are interested in. Recordings by native speakers will be played, marking the differences in pronunciation that depend on, e.g., grammatical

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