My name is Natasha and I’m a qualified Russian teacher and native speaker. Usually I teach Russian to English-speaking people, so I would like to share with you some common challenges and mistakes in learning Russian. I…
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Typical Russian Mistakes 1
My name is Natasha and I’m a qualified Russian teacher and native speaker. Usually I teach Russian to English-speaking people, so I would like to share with you some common challenges and mistakes in learning Russian. I…
16 Capitonyms
Quick! Can you answer the following questions? Where do poles come from? What do Cats do? Where would you find a hamlet? OK – fair enough. These are weird questions. However, if your answers were:…
A Diaper CEO on Building Trust Online (EN/CZ)
I have the same colleagues on my team that started the company LOS with me in January 2013. None of the ten founding members have left. Once in a while, someone new joins us. We…
12 Heteronyms in English
Let’s take the windy, windy road. My dove dove fast. Bass like bass. What’s going on with these sentences? No idea? Then keep reading and discover the mad world of heteronyms! 1. Close Meaning 1…
Making Public Speaking Easy #3: Post Mortem
OK. So you’ve just done your amazing presentation and you completely killed it. That’s a good thing – English idioms are strange. Your presentation was a complete success! So now you can go and sit…
Making Public Speaking Easy #2: The Big Day
OK. So you’ve practised your presentation. You’ve done the research, the script’s perfect and the slides are looking awesome. Then the big day arrives. You’re up there on stage, and they’re all looking at you….
8 Colour Idioms
Colours are everywhere! But colour isn’t just something we see; it’s something we feel. Different colours represent different things in lots of different cultures. Take the colour green, for example. It can represent nature, aliens,Islam,…
Making Public Speaking Easy #1: Preparation
OK. It finally happened. You need to give a half-hour presentation in front of hundreds of people. And you’ve never talked about anything in front of more than ten people before in your life. In…
The Birth of a Diaper CEO (EN/CZ)
I moved from Prague to Stockholm in the summer of 2010. This was a dream come true, as I had always wanted to work and live in Scandinavia. At the very beginning of my adventure…
Lecturing & Facilitation
“You’ve been chosen to launch Microeconomics in English.” When Economics University of Prague lecturers Zuzana and Marketa were awarded this honor, they knew they had to brush up on their English – fast! No matter…
Gate Expectations
There can be few words in the English language with the sheer versatility of ‘gate’. The noun, of course, usually refers to an outdoor portal, often with a structure to be opened and closed, though…