We have a winner! Congratulations to Lourdes from Spain who guessed closest to the correct number of tiles in the swimming pool (71,482 tiles). Lourdes wins a 2 week language holiday to Malta with Maltalingua Language School!
Study Reveals Growth Towards Informality in English Grammar
The Cambridge English Corpus recently collated 1 billion words of written English and 75 million words of spoken English. The language is more fruitful now than ever before, yet native English speakers have an increasingly poor use of grammar. These
Amazon Publishes Cornish Language Book After Pressure from Publisher
Amazon has recently published a Cornish language children’s e-book after pressure from Diglot Books, one of a number of small publishers fighting to preserve minority languages. There are an estimated 7,000 languages in the world and 40% of them are in danger
German President Calls For English To Become the Official Language of Europe
The President of Germany, Joachim Gauck, last week called for English to become the official language of the European Union. He insisted that, as English is the most commonly shared language across the European community, more effort should be put into
Movie Vocabulary: And the Oscar goes to…
The glitz and excitement of The Oscars is upon us again! The 92nd Academy Awards will take place on February 9th 2020 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. We can’t wait to see who will walk away with the coveted
Win a Language Holiday to Malta
We have a winner! Congratulations to Alejandro “Alex” Montesinos from Spain who guessed correctly that there were 2783 Matesers in the jar! Alex has won a language holiday to Malta, including 2 weeks of English tuition at Maltalingua language school.
Welcome the Academic Snake!
2013 is the Chinese Year of the Snake. This smooth and wily creature will traditionally bring leaps and bounds in academic pursuits – great news for EFL students. People born in the Chinese Year of the Snake are naturally intelligent,
Slither into the Chinese New Year of the Snake
The Chinese Year of the Snake starts tomorrow, Sunday 10th February 2013 – but what does this slithery creature have in store for EFL? The snake is an intellectual and quietly adventurous animal in the Chinese calendar, so this could
No English Spoken in 5% of UK Homes
5% of the homes in the UK do not use English as a main language. This lack of English language ability among a relatively large proportion of society has caused Eric Pickles, Communities Secretary, to raise his concerns over the
English Language Usage Has Made Scrabble Easier
A U.S. academic has declared that the board game Scrabble is now too easy after changes in the English language have made the value of the letters meaningless. American academic Dr. Joshua Lewis suggests that the letter values need to