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The differences between UK and US English

More than just tom-ay-to / tom-ah-to

TOKEN – The Word of the Month for April 2021

Every month, we take a look at a word in the headlines, in English, for your English. See more at The Word of the Month.

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4 untranslatable English words to keep in your back pocket at all times

Learning English has been on a lot of confinement to-do lists, and since you’re reading this, we can only assume you’ve been successful.

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Adaptive learning is the key to a successful learning experience” Chantal Roques, Gymglish partner

AC Langues is a language school offering targeted, tailor-made courses for professionals and individual learners.

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The 10 most common Spanish grammar mistakes English speakers make

Thought grammar was a mere detail in your language learning process? We’re here to deliver some bad news: you’ve got it all wrong.

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5 dumb slang terms on the web that surely won’t stand the test of time

One constant on the World Wide Web is the mountain of Internet slang, abbreviations, acronyms and expressions online that separate the boomers from the millennials.

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5 English-speaking street artists you need to know

At Gymglish, we believe that learning a language is also learning the culture behind it. That’s why we strive to highlight iconic authors, movies, TV series, poems, books and songs in the “dessert” section at the end of each of our lessons.

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FAIR – The Word of the Month for March 2021

Every month, we take a look at a word in the headlines, in English, for your English. See more at The Word of the Month. Definition Fair (adjective): Just; appropriate; equal Fair (skin, hair): light (skin, hair) Fairly (good): quite, relatively (good). Fair in the news March 8th marks International Women’s Day: commemorating unfairness to women annually since 1977. The only […]

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Of fish and fools

Question : Comment dit-on « poisson d’avril » en anglais ?

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Selected differences between Castilian Spanish and Latin American Spanish

There can only be uno! Today, we explore a difference between Latin American and Castilian Spanish.

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A typical day in the life of an engineer on the Gymglish Tech Team

So you’re a computer guy or gal. You’ve been communing with them ever since you popped out of your mom’s front-end. Got your first PC at age 2, hacked your first government at 8.