culture. education. literary studies.
In this post, I’ll present a selection of podcasts and radio programmes produced in Esperanto. If you’re an Esperantist looking for up-to-date audio content, a learner seeking listening practice, a radio enthusiast, or just someone curious about what Esperanto sounds like, the following will be a useful resource.
“Best Offer Wins” is a solid page-turner that you won’t be able to put down until the very end. In terms of genre, it would be best described as a domestic thriller, peppered with dark humour and social commentary on the housing crisis and class anxiety.
"By" and "until" both seem to refer to the same thing — a point up to which something lasts or when an action ends. Be careful, though: while similar, in English they are definitely not the same!
R. L. Stevenson's poem “Summer Sun” was first published in 1885, as part of his collection titled A Child’s Garden of Verses. In it, the poet personifies the Sun, presenting him as “the gardener of the World” — a kind presence that brings life, warmth, and gladness to all living things.
I’m happy to present another title in the Grammaticus Free Library series: “Squirrel” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. The PDF comes with vocabulary notes and a grammar exercise on non-standard, dialectal forms used by the author.
In this post, I’ll share with you some of my favourite podcasts on the subject of ghosts and hauntings (as in real-life experiences, not the literary genre of ghost stories). From whispered accounts of haunted houses to chilling explorations of folklore and paranormal investigations, these shows invite us to lean in and believe—if only for a moment—that the veil between worlds is much thinner than…
Korelativne veznike koristimo da bismo povezali reči, fraze ili klauze unutar rečenice. Uvek se koriste u parovima, na primer: i… i, ili… ili, niti… niti. U ovom tekstu pogledaćemo kako se oni koriste u engleskom.
In this post we’ll get acquainted with Sara Teasdale's poem “Spring Rain”, first published in 1917. In many ways typical of her style of writing, the poem is simple yet deep, using imagery from the natural world to reflect on the poet’s emotions and memories.
As an update to my post about the CSB Single-Column Wide-Margin Bible, here’s a short presentation of another version of the Christian Standard Bible that I referenced there: the CSB Thinline Bible.
A mistake I often hear in conversation classes has to do with the choice of preposition before the nouns 'beginning' and 'end'. Did something something happen ‘in the beginning’ or ‘at the beginning’? And what happened ‘in the end’? Or is it ‘at the end’?