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Common pronunciation errors in English
We all have a mother tongue which functions as a filter for what sounds we are able to distinguish. When you learn a foreign language, you (...)
May 28, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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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 on the Internet. This one is, however, special in many (...)
May 11, 2013 – Jakub Marian – German
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English words people commonly pronounce wrong
Below is a list of English words commonly mispronounced by learners of English. Pronunciation is given in the International Phonetic (...)
April 9, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Arrive to’ vs. ‘arrive in’ vs. ‘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” + (...)
April 4, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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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 (...)
March 30, 2013 – 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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Pronunciation of vowels in 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 (...)
March 27, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘On the one hand’ vs. ‘on one hand’ in English
Actually, both “on the one hand” and “on one hand” are considered correct, but “on the one hand” is preferred by many dictionaries (and (...)
March 17, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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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 (...)
March 13, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Mathematics
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Names of the letters of the Latin alphabet in English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Polish, and Czech
I learn and speak several languages, but the proper pronunciation of the names of the letters of the standard 26-letter Latin alphabet is (...)
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Is killing a dog worse than killing a pig?
I read an article yesterday (on one of the major Czech news servers) about a man who threw his mother’s dog through a stairwell (it was (...)
February 26, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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