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List of irregular (strong) German verbs
There are many irregular verbs in German, and also many lists of them can be found over the Internet. This one is, however, special in many respects. It includes all the forms of irregular verbs that (May 11, 2013)

Mastering English Vocabulary 9: The Cask of Amontillado
I use LingQ to expand my vocabulary in many languages, including English. Today, we shall concentrate on some peculiar vocabulary in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado (which is also available (April 14, 2013)

English words people commonly pronounce wrong
Below is a list of English words commonly mispronounced by learners of English. The words come mostly from my own experience (some of them from my LingQ account, a great online language learning (April 9, 2013)

Arrive to / arrive in / arrive at in English
Because of the influence of verbs like “come to”, “move to”, and “go to”, learners of English often tend to use the combination “arrive” + “to”. However, although sentence such as “come to me”, “we (April 4, 2013)

Mastering English Vocabulary 1/4
Today, we shall concentrate more on the origin and the historical background of words rather than their meaning. Pronunciations correspond to British English. So here’s the list: nutcracker (April 1, 2013)

Learning English with marked stress position
One of the most difficult things about learning English is learning its orthography. It poses problems for native speakers who tend to misspell words all the time (like “I was not aloud to go there”, (March 30, 2013)

Open and closed syllables in English
Although the concept of open and closed syllables is only rarely taught to learners of English, it is quite easy to grasp and knowing it can help you improve your pronunciation and spelling without (March 27, 2013)

On the one hand / on one hand in English
Actually, both expressions are considered correct, but “on the one hand … on the other hand …” is preferred by many dictionaries while “on one hand … on the other hand” is listed as an (March 17, 2013)

Intuition behind the Cauchy-Schwarz, Markov’s, and Jensen’s inequality
People often tend to learn inequalities just as formulas that are to be memorized, not to be thought about. There is, however, usually an intuitive explanation of the inequality which allows you (March 13, 2013)

Names of the letters of the Latin alphabet in several languages
I learn and speak several languages, but I tend to be quite unsure about the proper pronunciation of the names of the letters of the standard 26-letter Latin/English alphabet (which is what one needs (March 12, 2013)