10 Words With Roots in Lesser-Known Languages

English has borrowed words from all over the world to make up its lexicon. Our friends at Vocabulary.

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11 idioms only Brits understand

You don’t get much more British than this. To pop one’s clogs is a euphemism for dying or death. If something goes down a treat, then it was thoroughly enjoyed.

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Wait … is that a rule? Ten everyday grammar mistakes you might be making

Should you use italics for movie titles? Do you put full stops inside or outside quotation marks? Is the Oxford comma for all lists … or just some lists? Should that ellipsis have had a space on either side of it? The correct answer to each of these questions is “it depends”.

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Row erupts over Spain’s first fully English-language Eurovision entry

For the first time ever a song written entirely in English is to represent Spain at the Eurovision song contest after viewers of state broadcaster RTVE and a celebrity jury earlier this week picked 33-year-old Madrileña Barei’s Say Yay! as this year’s Spanish entry.

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Bowing to the longbow

THE long, low ridges of the Somme, in northern France, are now synonymous with the senseless stalemate of the Western Front in 1916. But the exhausted, grimy English soldiers stumbling through this landscape, sinking up to their knees in mud, once wore kettle helmets and padded jerkins.

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11 Slang Terms You Think Are New But Are In Fact Ancient

But the first recorded use of the word was in 1941. Hipsters have been trying too hard to look cool for more than seven decades. And they really haven’t changed that much: Norman Mailer was writing about “the self-protective irony of the hipster” in 1958.



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Google Translate gets smarter with language detection, Word Lens

Star Trek's universal translator is here, and it's on your phone.



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14 slang terms that dominated 2014

A lot of weird stuff happened in 2014, from the Ellen DeGeneres super selfie and Charles Manson getting married in jail. But perhaps the strangest of all is the vocabulary we picked up this year.



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40 Incorrectly Used Words That Can Make You Look Dumb

LinkedIn Influencer, Jeff Haden, published this post originally on LinkedIn. While I like to think I know a little about business writing, I still fall into a few word traps. (Not to mention a few cliché traps.)



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10 Words With Roots in Lesser-Known Languages

English has borrowed words from all over the world to make up its lexicon. Our friends at Vocabulary.



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The Two-Way

The growing popularity of electronic cigarettes has now sparked the notice of the estimable Oxford Dictionaries, which has chosen "vape" as the word of the year for 2014. The word can be a noun or a verb; it beat out contenders such as "bae" and "normcore."



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Revealed: The word of the year is 'vape'

After much discussion, Oxford Dictionaries have revealed their word of the year: 'vape'. Eminent lexicographer Jonathon Green is unimpressed It’s that time of the year.



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11 idioms only Brits understand

You don’t get much more British than this. To pop one’s clogs is a euphemism for dying or death. If something goes down a treat, then it was thoroughly enjoyed.



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20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes

I’ve edited a monthly magazine for more than six years, and it’s a job that’s come with more frustration than reward.



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English Assimilation for Haters

It used to be that it would take three or more generations to melt away the language isolation of Finns or Norwegians in the upper midwest, Czechs in Nebraska, Quebecois in upper New England, or Deutschlanders in the parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland where German remained the predominant language long into the nineteenth century. Today, modern popular culture being the force it is, the American-born kids of native Bengali or Ukrainian speakers are likely to enjoy perfect fluency in English.

Run Madrid in English

Want to get in shape but need motivation...guidance...direction...? Miss running with English speakers? Want to learn English? Join our experienced team of runners who will gently guide you on the path to a running future. Contact: Runmadrid@gmail.com


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Run Madrid in English

I have decided to start a running group (American Language Running) in

Madrid. I love English. I love running. I want to combine my love of
my language and my love of running. And I want you to have fun with
me.

Barring injury, I have run 6 days a week for the last 5 years. I've
been a runner since I was twelve years old, growing up in
Pennsylvania.

Once a week (for the beginning), we will be running in Casa de Campo.
Runs will be between 6-10 kms and 10-16 kms. The length of the run
will be determined by where you begin with the group. You will have
one starting point in Parque Oeste and another down in Casa de Campo.
As we run, we will talk in English. Don't be intimidated by your
personal ability and endurance, these runs are more for fun, for
English, and to meet people. We will adjust for each group. I am a
teacher and a runner and so the runs will be conversational and
informative in nature. Subjects will vary, but running will be the
principle attraction. You will learn from practicing, just as you do
from training during your runs. Native speakers are encouraged to
join. You will see a different part of Madrid. For the summer and
fall, training schedules will be for 10k and half-marathons. After
September, we will have native speaker instructing on marathon
training.

I will be posting more information here and on the Facebook page: Run
Madrid in English. If you are interested (or know someone who might
be) respond here, or on Facebook, or send me an email:
runmadrid@gmail.com. Scheduling and prices will be posted soon.

Run Madrid in English

If you are in need of motivation.
If you are in need of information.
If you are in need of training.
If you are in need of English.

Drop me an email at runmadrid@gmail.com. Runs every Saturday in July and August.


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