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Witty and funny quotes about religion
“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.” (...)
March 1, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Comma before and after ‘etc.’
Should you use a comma before and/or after “etc.”? There’s no definitive answer, because different style guides recommend different usage. (...)
February 28, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Freeer’ vs. ‘freer’ (triple ‘e’) in English
This is a common mistake in English. Since the comparative form of an adjective is formed by simply sticking “er” to the end of an (...)
February 28, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Pythagorean tuning
Pythagoras devised a tuning system based solely on perfect fifths, constructed from a reference tone by successively stacking perfect (...)
February 27, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Music
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Names of fruits and vegetables in French, Spanish and German with pictures
Learning basic vocabulary in a foreign language can be a dull task. It doesn’t make much sense to go through a long list of translations and to memorize, for example, that “apple = pomme” in French, because you can’t speak a language by translating your mother tongue word for word. (...)
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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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Witty and funny quotes about work and jobs
“It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?” (...)
February 17, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Witty and funny quotes about politics
“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” (...)
February 16, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Pronunciation of ‘despicable’ in English
When you despise /dɪˈspaɪz/ (dis-paayz) something, you find it despicable, which is pronounced as /dɪˈspɪkəbəl/ (dis-pik-ə-bl) (...)
February 16, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Pronunciation of ‘vinegar’ in English
Vinegar is used to make food more sour /ˈsaʊər/ (saau-ə) UK, /ˈsaʊɚ/ (saau-rr) US. Although the word is related to vine /vaɪn/ (...)
February 16, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Quantification without variables
I have written several articles about a way to do classical calculus without using variables, e.g. how to differentiate or integrate (...)
February 15, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Mathematics
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