ODDS & ENDS

Levelling up your English – tips for native speakers! (part 1)

I thought It would be fun to run through a few nice constructions in English. We might hear these all the time in films and TV series and understand them perfectly, but not have internalised them to the point of being able to use them actively in daily conversation. Throwing in such turns of phrase […]

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The travel writing of Anthony Burgess

ODDS & ENDS, TRAVEL / Matthew

I have always been a Burgess fan. Novelist, composer, linguist, talk show guest, interviewee and general polymath, Burgess’s greatest legacy for me was his essay writing. Happily, many of his best pieces on literature, language and other subjects can be found in his collections of essays “Urgent Copy” and “But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?” (also

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