Categoría: C1 advanced

Desdeñamos las conversaciones triviales, pero son la mejor manera de romper el hielo y, a partir de ellas, adentrarse en temas más profundos e interesantes. People love to complain about small talk. Some say it’s “painful”, “dishonest” and “a chore.” Some of my own friends have called it “boring” and “exhausting.” A 2016 Wired magazine article titled “Small talk should be banned” […]

The Oxford English Dictionary aims to record the English language from the first known use of a word in English until now. But that raises the tricky question: When does the English language begin? The ambitious idea behind the Oxford English Dictionary is to record the English language in its totality, from the first known use of […]