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Facebook demotes publishers by reducing reach
Facebook has made it nearly impossible for publishers to reach their fans without paying for ads. I spend hours a day writing quality (...)
February 12, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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Stressed and unstressed ‘the’ and ‘a’ in English (the strong form of articles)
Articles in English have three different forms (at least in pronunciation). If “a” or “the” are followed by a vowel, they change to “an” (...)
February 11, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Pronunciation of ‘February’ in English
I heard someone complaining about the fact that he had to say to himself “feb–ru–ary” every time he wanted to spell the name of the (...)
February 9, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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English words in which ‘ss’ is pronounced as ‘z’
In French, Italian, German and some other languages that use the Latin alphabet, the spelling difference between “s” and “ss” is used to (...)
February 6, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Etc.’ in a list introduced by ‘e.g.’
The abbreviation “e.g.” (pronounced /iːdʒiː/) comes from the Latin phrase exemplī grātiā which means “for example” or, more (...)
February 3, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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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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Second substitution method for integration without variables
This article is based on my article about integration without variables which you may want to read first in order to understand what’s (...)
February 1, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Mathematics
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Pronunciation of ‘island’ in English
Did you know that “island” used to be written “iland” before the 16th century? Although an island indeed is land surrounded by water, (...)
January 28, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Pronunciation of ‘a’ and ‘the’ before ‘u’ and ‘h’ in English
This is a very important topic overlooked by many learners. Of course, perhaps even during the very first English lesson, everyone learns (...)
January 25, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Pronunciation of ‘archangel’ and ‘archenemy’ in English
In contrast to “arch” /ɑːtʃ/ (aatch) (UK), /ɑːrtʃ/ (artch) (US), “archangel” is pronounced with a hard “ch”, i.e. (...)
January 24, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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“Fish fish fish eat eat eat” is a grammatically correct sentence in English (with explanation)
Recently, I read that “fish fish fish eat eat eat” is an example of a strange but grammatically correct sentence. It took me some time to (...)
January 22, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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