Coldrings

Have you been on Wikipedia over the past few months?Yep, I bet you most certainly did. You must have seen the rather aggressive banner atop the page, all in red with some words in caps, begging you to donate. The argument put forward? Wikipedia does not run on ads and […]

I started studying English when I was 6. My mother bought me “Magic English”, a trendy video tape for children with weird cartoon characters talking in English. The first time I watched it I hated it. After that first encounter with English, I studied it again in middle school. I […]

By Charlotte Barrett When I was thirteen, I decided I wanted to speak English, properly, without an accent. I was a good student and I had very good grades but with my two years of learning English, I was far from being bilingual. At the time, we did not have […]

We all know about the football game and the exchange of presents in the trenches at Christmas during WWI. We also know about the Japanese soldier who didn’t know war was over and refused to give up fighting long after WWII had finished.Yeah but… have you ever heard of the […]

Here an amazing use of discourse markers and speech connectors. In this interview Robert Downy Jr uses his skills not only by showing an astonishing quality of fluency but also by giving an outstanding performance dodging provocative questions. Also…what a t-shirt…!!! I recommend playing the video at X0.9 speed and […]

This is a story my friend João told me many years ago… London November Two Thousand Eight Let’s say you’re Brazilian, you didn’t finish school and you don’t like the reality of your country. You decide, no matter what, to leave. You got a lot of friends in that city, […]

By Joshua Webster Did I get your attention?What would have been better? “READ THIS FOR A HEALTHIER LIFE” or “FIVE SIMPLE STEPS TO GET MORE MONEY FAST”. Gaining attention from consumers is becoming more competitive, as companies try to appeal to human kind through many ways of advertising. Look at […]

By Charlotte Barrett Why and how I fell in love with France’s brightest Mind “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. But I wonder if there’s no breaking then there’s no healing, and if there is no healing then there is no learning. And if […]

by Joshua Webster Murica f&$k yeah Having spent a large portion of my life living in Texas and travelling around other parts my second home, I feel it’s important to weigh in on the crazy wild western world that is the USA. I grew up learning about America’s brief history […]

By Joshua Webster Socialising in an anti-social time. In the recent pandemic, being social with your friends and family has been nothing short of impossible for an incredibly long time. At the peak, the world was in a state of lockdown, preventing the simplest of human requirements, socialising. Without this […]