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Learning English isn’t always easy
Who said it was going to be easy to learn English, just have a look at this text (see photo), which gives you an example of the crazy English language…
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Communication: Saying yes or was it no?!
Hi again, today you get a shorter and less nerdy blog post than the last few. It’s going to be all about communicating. Even though it’s over a year ago since I moved to Cyprus, I still smile and think about the language differences whenever I hear the Greek word “vaí” (nai) – meaning yes. […]
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German grammar: Prepositions & Cases
German prepositions In my last blog post I wrote about German adjectives’ inflections, in which I also shortly mentioned German prepositions. This post will therefore be about German prepositions and which case they take. A preposition is “a word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in the […]
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Adjective endings/ inflections in German
More on adjectives Not long ago I wrote a blog about adjectives. This blog will also be about adjectives, but instead focus will be on German adjectives and their inflections. In German the adjective inflection depends on the case, number and gender as well as a determiner, if any. Take this sentence for example: The […]
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Punctuation rules
Punctuation Every time we write, translate or correct a text, we use punctuation marks. The main idea of punctuation is to divide the text into information blocks, which at the same time serves to make the text easier to read and thereby understand. Punctuation has always been a tricky part of learning a language, e.g. […]