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Top Instagram captions for Paris
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Paris is a city for promenading along boulevards, sipping coffee, people-watching, eating endless macarons and generally pretending that you are in a ...

12 awesome Christmas traditions from around the world
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There’s a lot to love about Christmas – food, family, friends, and all kinds of other words that don’t start with the letter F. What makes the holiday...

5 easy languages to learn
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Learning a new language is no easy task. It calls for commitment, determination and motivation. But some languages are just easier to learn than other...

7 things to know about the British royal family
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Anyone who has lived in the UK will know that the royal family have a special place in British history, not to mention modern culture. You might have ...

Check your English level
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You’ve probably asked yourself many times how your English skills compare to others. Are you ahead or behind people in your profession, in your indust...

10 reasons to love Auckland
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A nature-first city packed with beaches, harbors, islands, and 48 dormant volcanoes? It could only be Auckland.  Long forgotten to New Zealand’s ski t...

10 steps to getting into a top US university
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College is all about exploring yourself and the world around you, and determining the type of person you’d like to become. Your time at university is ...

10 best winter cities in the world
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The w-word gets a lot of bad press. Sure, the warm sunny days of summer are wonderful, but just because the winter days are shorter, the evenings dark...

English self-assessment tools
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When you need to describe your level of English, precision is essential. Everyday terms like “beginner” and “fluent” do not mean the same thing to eve...

10 things that only those who lived in the US understand
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From the towering skyscrapers of New York to the rolling hills of San Francisco, the United States will never cease to amaze. But besides all the famo...

10 English slang terms you need to know in 2020
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With a new year comes a whole host of novel, oft-perplexing slang terms. Just as quickly as they fly in, they seem to disappear, banished to the depth...

Why is the world obsessed with Korea?
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Since Gangnam Style took the world by storm in 2012, weird and wonderful news stories about South Korea pop up literally every week – whether it’s the...