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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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‘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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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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‘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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“Wants that I do” / “wants me to do” in English
If you want to express that someone wants “that someone else does something”, the idiomatic way to do that in English is using the phrase (...)
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‘Many money’ vs. ‘much money’ in English
Just like water, sugar, or love, money (in its most common sense) is an uncountable noun. This means, in particular, that you cannot say (...)
August 15, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Why are English words so short?
Being a user (and a passive reader) of several languages, I’ve noticed that English words tend to be shorter on average than words in (...)
August 9, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Are Witches and Wizards in the Harry Potter universe selfish?
I am currently reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in Spanish (for language learning purposes), and there’s one thing that (...)
August 9, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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