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/’i:ŋ.glɪʃ fə lʌnʧ/ How do we say that again? Get familiar with the phonemic chart!

Students normally get quite confused about how to pronounce words in English and (to be honest) English spelling doesn’t often help us much...

No matter if you are an amateur or a professional oenophile, you should know that once a year you can buy wine for the year in progress. No...

Last week, in English for Lunch, we got back to those dreaded phrasal verbs. And, guess what? We had a look at possible constructions with ...

Would you like to try different food specialities on the same day? Even better, during the same meal! I can imagine some puzzled faces. Don...

Well, speakers of different languages will normally struggle with different sounds, so the answer should be: ‘a sound that you don’t have i...

On the 11th of November 1918, after four years of a bloody fight, the armistice was signed meaning it was the end of the Great War. Countri...

Last week, in English for lunch, our students were asking about a common problem students face when learning English: the dreaded phrasal v...

Every night of the 5th of November, an event takes place in the UK, it’s bonfire night! This tradition is more than four centuries old, and...

There is one time of the year when people remember their loved ones who passed away. This time is now, between the 31st of October and the ...