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“Analogous” vs. “analogical” in English
These two words are a common source of mistakes. The word you will need most of the time is “analogous”, which means “similar, comparable (...)
September 20, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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A curiosity about the F-word in Google Ngram Viewer
Google Ngram Viewer is a tool you can use to plot how common a word or a phrase was through the years in literature. I use it a lot to (...)
September 17, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Used to’ vs. ‘would’ in English
Both “would” and “used to” can be used to speak about an activity that someone did regularly long time ago:
Every Sunday, I used to go (...)
September 15, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Will’ after ‘whether’ in English
You were probably taught that you shouldn’t use “will” after “if” in conditional clauses, for example:
correct If you don’t receive (...)
September 13, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Will computers ever be smarter than humans?
When I was a child, I was fascinated by the idea that some day we will be able to construct computers that will be smarter than us. Later, (...)
September 12, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Mathematics
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By the way, have you already seen my brand new web app for non-native speakers of English? It's based on reading texts and learning by having all meanings, pronunciations, grammar forms etc. easily accessible. It looks like this:
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‘Hear doing’ vs. ‘hear do’ in English
Verbs of perception (such as “hear”, “see”, “feel”, and others) can be used both with the -ing form (e.g. “hear doing”) and with the (...)
September 11, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Percentage of EU population able to hold a conversation in Italian (map)
The following map (based on Eurobarometer 386, 2012) shows a few interesting trends. Probably the most surprising is how low the (...)
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How to use “Mahlzeit!” in German
Imagine the following situation: You work in the morning until 1 PM, stand up, go for lunch, and meet a colleague in the hall. He says (...)
August 30, 2014 – Jakub Marian – German
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Nutritional supplements = bad diet?
The other day, I saw the following comment under an article about vegan nutrition:
“Show me a vegan that actually looks and feels healthy (...)
August 28, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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‘Many’, ‘much’, ‘a lot of’, and ‘lots of’ in English
These four phrases, “many”, “much”, “a lot of”, and “lots of”, all express a similar idea of a large amount of something, but they are not (...)
August 24, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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