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Is it “all the” or “all of the” in English?
A common mistake among non-native speakers is inappropriately using the word “of” after “all”. However, it would be wrong to say that this (...)
July 6, 2016 – Jakub Marian – English
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“Drawing” pronounced as “drawring” in British English
Why is it that so many British people pronounce the word “drawing” as “drawring”? This non-standard pronunciation is the result of (...)
July 2, 2016 – Jakub Marian – English
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Italian Alphabet with Pronunciation
The Italian alphabet has 21 letters (when not counting letters with diacritical marks), out of which 5 are vowels and 16 consonants. As (...)
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How I show Crimea in my statistical maps
I have been getting a lot of comments and emails lately about “errors” in my maps, all about one particular part of the map. Whenever (...)
June 23, 2016 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Military expenditures per capita and as % of GDP in Europe
The following two maps show how much European countries spent on their military in 2015, per capita and as a percentage of GDP. The maps (...)
June 21, 2016 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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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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Wine consumption in Europe by country per year per capita
Wine is one of the most popular alcoholic beverages in Europe, with the French alone consuming about the same amount of wine as the whole (...)
June 15, 2016 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Difference between ‘viewpoint’ and ‘point of view’ in English
In the figurative senses, a point of view and a viewpoint are essentially the same thing. They both refer to an attitude or a way of (...)
June 14, 2016 – Jakub Marian – English
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Difference between ‘alright’ and ‘all right’ in English
The only traditionally accepted way to write the expression “all right” (meaning “acceptable, satisfactory”) is as two separate words. (...)
June 12, 2016 – Jakub Marian – English
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Difference between “mum” and “mom” in English
The difference between “mum” and “mom” is the same as the one between “colour” and “color”—the former is used predominantly in British (...)
June 12, 2016 – Jakub Marian – English
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Verbs in Esperanto: Explanation and conjugation patterns
Verbs are important building blocks of most (if not all) human languages. They usually describe either actions or states of being, but (...)
June 9, 2016 – Jakub Marian – Esperanto
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