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‘Continue doing’ vs. ‘continue to do’ in English
Apparently, there’s a popular belief among English teachers in China that “continue to do” and “continue doing” mean two different things. (...)
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Map of the percentage of population able to speak French in the EU by country
French is a Romance language, and as such one would expect the percentage of its speakers to be much higher among native speakers of other (...)
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Names of numbers above 1000 in English
First, we should note that there is a certain oddity in modern English in the nomenclature for numbers like “one thousand million”, “one (...)
July 13, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Percentage of the EU population able to hold a conversation in English (by various criteria)
In my visualization of the percentage of the EU population able to hold a conversation in English, I presented separate percentages for (...)
July 10, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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How big are Greenland and Russia in comparison to Africa?
We are all used to seeing the following kind of maps in Google Maps and other map providers (this one, in particular, is taken from Google (...)
July 7, 2014 – 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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Genders in English – Are animals and things he, she, or it?
Unlike most other European languages, Modern English has no grammatical genders. When we speak about an inanimate object, we always refer (...)
July 6, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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The meaning of ‘nothing but’ in English
The meaning of “nothing but” in English is closely related to the usage of “but” in all/anything/everything but, which is more idiomatic, (...)
July 5, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Are we born with a certain IQ?
It is not exactly rocket science to understand that people get better at doing something with training (although it is almost brain (...)
July 2, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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Do languages influence our way of thinking?
Each language forces you to think in a slightly different way. There are many concepts that can be expressed easily in one language but (...)
June 30, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Language learning
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“United States is” / “United States are” – plural or singular?
The United States has always been causing (grammatical) trouble… or have been? “The United States” was treated as a plural noun in most (...)
June 28, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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