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English Words – How Many is Enough? When it comes to language, one can never have too many words. According to BNC (British National Corpus), the English language has over 100 million words, both spoken and written. I think that I can honestly say that no native speaker will know all of the words registered in the BNC, so how many words do we need...
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How to Write a CV That Gets You Noticed: A Step-by-Step Guide “CV” stands for Curriculum Vitae, which loosely translates from Latin as ‘the course of...
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How to Express Degrees of Probability They say nothing in life is certain except death and taxes. For everything else on the spectrum of probability,...
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What kind of learner are You? Have you ever wondered why you may have done particularly well in a specific subject at school or university? Apart...
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How to Write a Great Cover Letter Applying for a job can be stressful and often people spend a lot of time working on their CV and then just write a...
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Writing Professional Emails Even with the increased use of chat messaging services like Slack and MS Teams, email remains the key form of...
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Strategies for IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 (2/2) In our last post we looked at how to introduce, plan and structure your IELTS academic writing...
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English Idioms about Happiness Smile! The 20th of March is the International Day of Happiness. In honour of this cheerful occasion, we’ll be looking...
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Spooky Sayings: The Halloween Edition What kind of dog do vampires have? A bloodhound. Yes, it’s that time of year again. No, not the time for cheesy...
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Learning English with ChatGPT Love it or hate it, AI is here to stay. A lot of folks are talking about ChatGPT and if you haven’t been living under a...
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How to Talk about Love in English Love is in the air! And no, that doesn’t mean it’s a bug you can catch (although it is contagious, so beware)....
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Great Songs with Terrible Mistakes It has been said that music is a brilliant way to learn how to speak English correctly, which is absolutely true,...
