Master English the cool way If you want to sound more natural when speaking English—especially with native speakers—slang is your secret weapon. While slang isn’t for essays or presentations, it’s great for casual chats, making friends, and understanding everyday conversations. Here are some of the most popular slang terms every uni student should know: 1.…
Grab your wands and your butterbeer—Harry Potter Day is here! Whether you’re Team Gryffindor or secretly a proud Slytherin, this is the one day a year when it’s totally acceptable to quote Dumbledore in class, wear a cloak to campus, and rewatch all eight movies (yes, even the long ones). 🚂 All Aboard the Hogwarts…
Word of the day: dormant \ ˈdɔrmənt \ adjective Dormant: 1. inactive but capable of becoming active 2. in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation 3. (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting but not extinct 4. (heraldry) lying with head on paws as if sleeping Can you correctly use the word dormant in a sentence? Based on the…
Word of the day: serendipitous \ ˌsɛrənˈdɪpɪtəs \ adjective Serendipitous: lucky in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries Mr. Rodriguez and Ms. Jimenez described a recent night, when clubgoers began dancing in the middle of Broadway to the sirens of a stalled fire truck, as emblematic of the serendipitous moments that sometimes emerge from that chaos. Joseph Bernstein…
Word of the day: whodunit \ huˈdʌnət \ noun Whodunit: a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel, play or movie Still, “The White Lotus” has also captured something rare in the binge-it-all-at-once streaming age: a whodunit that has drawn viewers into a week-to-week guessing game of who gets murdered and who shot the…
The Boy Who Lived turns 45 today here’s how to celebrate Harry Potter’s 45th birthday According to Harry Potter lore, the boy wizard was born on July 31, 1980. (The fact that author J.K. Rowling also was born on July 31 does not seem like a coincidence). It’s possible to pull together a fun celebration…
Here’s a list of funny sounding words Cattywampus Definition – askew, awry, kitty-corner Bumfuzzle Definition – confuse; perplex; fluster Gardyloo Definition – used in Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets Taradiddle Definition – 1: a fib 2 : pretentious nonsense Billingsgate Definition – coarsely abusive…
The Longest Words in English Most English words longer than about 15-20 letters are scientific, meaningless, or highly specialized, and they tend to be formed by affixation. This is the act or process of adding affixes to a base word to produce a derivative word—in the word affixation, for instance, -ation is an affix. Here…
The origin of the problem English is famously difficult to spell. It asks us to accept the inconsistencies of the language. The state of English spelling is partly due to the mongrel nature of the language (it’s essentially a product of Anglo-Saxon aka Old English, Latin, Old Norse, and Anglo-French), and partly a consequence of…
Así se vivió el Coloquio de Lenguas, Educación y Cultura 2025 en la Universidad Internacional ¿Te has preguntado alguna vez por qué deberías aprender otro idioma además del tuyo?El pasado 23 de mayo, estudiantes, docentes e invitados se dieron cita en la edición 2025 del Coloquio de Lenguas, Educación y Cultura, organizado por el Departamento…