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Vocabulary in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (first chapter)
When I started working on this website, I published a few articles about English vocabulary I considered interesting. I prepared drafts (...)
June 13, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Both’ vs. ‘either’ in English
Learners of English quite often confuse the words “both” and “either”, probably because these tend to be translated using a single word (...)
May 27, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Second’ vs. ‘other’ in English
Imagine the following scenario: you are sitting next to a relative at a family gathering. There are two bottles that you cannot reach, and (...)
May 10, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Subtract / subtraction’ vs. ‘substract / substraction’ in English
I have heard a lot of people using the word “substract”, respectively its derived form “substraction”. Long story short, the correct forms (...)
May 9, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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“A couple things” / “a couple of things” in English
Some people will tell you that it’s completely fine to say “a couple things”, others that you cannot use “a couple” without “of” at all. (...)
May 5, 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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English words with Q not followed by U, with pronunciation
There are only three English words which contain a Q not followed by U that are not borrowed from another language:
qwerty /ˈkwɜrti/ (...)
April 18, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Talk the talk but not walk the walk’ – English idiom with meaning and examples
If you say that someone talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk, it means that what they do doesn’t agree with what they say. For (...)
April 7, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘All but’ vs. ‘anything but’ vs. ‘everything but’ in English
These three expressions, “all but”, “anything but”, and “everything but”, are among the most confusing in the English language for native (...)
March 28, 2014 – Jakub Marian – English
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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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