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‘Elephant in the room’ – English idiom with meaning and examples
The expression “elephant in the room”, sometimes also “elephant in the living room”, means “a big issue everyone is aware of, but which is (...)
March 22, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Living under a rock’ – English idiom with meaning and examples
Living under a rock is a nice recent English idiom meaning “being oblivious or ignorant to what happens in the outside world”. It is used (...)
March 17, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Harmony analysis using numbers (the numeral notation)
In the previous article, we described a way to think about the notes in the western tonal system as about a line of fifth. This line also provides another natural approach to note naming; we can simply call one of the notes 0 and refer to all other notes by their tonal distance (the distance on the line of fifths) (...)
March 10, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Music
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‘Morgen’, ‘am Morgen’, ‘morgens’ and ‘morgen früh’ in German
These four expressions are a common source of confusion for German learners. The reason is that “Morgen” can be either a noun or an (...)
March 5, 2014 – Jakub Marian – German
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Witty and funny quotes about children and relationships
“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” (...)
March 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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Functional (unified) notation for chord progressions
The functional notation for chord progressions is an extension of the traditional notation which is fully compatible with it (you won’t have to learn any new symbols if all you want to do is to play a given chord progression on an instrument). It is a notation I have developed in order to speed up the process of learning to understand music and to improvise. (...)
March 2, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Music
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Witty and funny quotes about religion
“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.” (...)
March 1, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Comma before and after ‘etc.’
Should you use a comma before and/or after “etc.”? There’s no definitive answer, because different style guides recommend different usage. (...)
February 28, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Freeer’ vs. ‘freer’ (triple ‘e’) in English
This is a common mistake in English. Since the comparative form of an adjective is formed by simply sticking “er” to the end of an (...)
February 28, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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Pythagorean tuning
Pythagoras devised a tuning system based solely on perfect fifths, constructed from a reference tone by successively stacking perfect (...)
February 27, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Music
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