Advanced learners of English can now enjoy the service of accent assessment by SoundSmart and two independent North American Speech Pathologists and Public Speaking Coaches.

Столица Каталонии привлекает своими многочисленными выставками и предлагает отдохнуть и насладиться новыми ресторанами, гостиницами и посетить великолепные бутики.
Достопримечательности
Научные и научно-популярные выставки проходят в Музее естественных наук (1). Адрес: Parc de la Ciutadella, телефон 0034-93-319 68 95, адрес в интернете: www.bcn.cat/museuciencies. Выходной день: понедельник.

Modern Germanic languages

Genetically, English belongs to the Germanic or Teutonic group of languages, which is one of the twelve groups of the I-E linguistic family. The Germanic languages in the modern world are as follows:

    * English – in Great Britain, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the South African Republic, and many other former British colonies;
    * German – in the Germany, Austria, Luxemburg, part of Switzerland;
    * Netherlandish – in the Netherlands and Belgium (known also as Dutch and Flemish respectively);

The history is known from the writings of Greek and Roman authors. The earliest paper is written by Pytheas. He lived in the second half of the 4th century B.C. Pytheas sailed much. The description of his journeys is not preserved. But something was quoted in the papers of old historians as in Titus Livy and Polybius in the second century B.C. They provided extracts from a paper of Pytheas. It was also mentioned that Old Germanic tribes raided the Hellenic countries of south-eastern Europe, Italy and Gall. In the beginning of our era the Greek historian Strabo wrote about Germans nomads.

Enrique Iglesias. Tired of Being Sorry

/ Thomas, Scott; Iglesias, Enrique M. /

I don't know why
You want to follow me tonight
When in the rest of the world
With you whom I've crossed and I've quarreled

Mika. Relax, Take It Easy

Took a right to the end of the line
Where no one ever goes.
Ended up on a broken train with nobody I know.
But the pain and the (longings) the same.
(Where the dying
Now I'm lost and I'm screaming for help.)

Mattafix. Big City Life

Big City Life,
Me try fi get by,
Pressure nah ease up no matter how hard me try.
Big City Life,
Here my heart have no base,
And right now Babylon de pon me case.

Уже около 40 лет при отделе литературы на иностранных языках существует клуб английского языка (English Speaking Club). В нем две группы: разговорного и литературного английского языка. Клуб носит имя первого президента – Владимира Андреевича Павлова, трагически погибшего около 15 лет назад.

Невозможное - возможно, но это стоит денег.

Нашла в сети забавный фото-блог. Правда, нет никакой информации об авторе. Но судя по всему, автор не лишен чувства юмора, коли собрал такую коллекцию смешных фотографий. Попробуем “обогатить” наш английский, улыбаясь / смеясь / гогоча / хохоча…