English Conversation Course

Language has a perennial tendency to evolve, change, “improve” and yet create totally new words. Why does it happen so? When a word is defined as really existing? Language is like a living organism/human being – while existing it develops naturally and defines itself, moreover, defines the people who use it. It’s a key to people’s minds. Thanks to it we could express our opinion, what’s bothering us, our way of thinking. All world communication we owe to language and our ability to speak and write according to “defined national languages” (English, Polish etc.). Some people could say “Ok, but what about non-verbal communication?” There wouldn’t be that kind of communication if we firstly didn’t learn to think according to some pattern – which is a language indeed (non-verbal language to be precise). If a word does not have its meaning, we add the meaning to it, as John Koenig said in his presentation. He felt the need to describe emotions and created a dictionary of obscur...

Electronic cigarettes become more and more popular. Question of the health safety of these devices is still remaining open, but new researches are conducted and new facts are revealed. So are the electronic cigarettes harmful? There are about 500 electronic cigarettes brands and more than 7,000 liquids for them. They work on different principles and contain different amounts of nicotine, toxic substances and carcinogens. Based on the researches, it is quite difficult to say anything specific about the safety of all devices. Also, many researches have limited sources, some error or are biased. These facts divided the scientific community. On the one hand, every research on the tobacco industry will prove that the tobacco is a pure evil. For people who are making those researches, e-cigarettes are harmful by default. On the other hand, researchers who consider electronic cigarettes more acceptable than usual.  According to them, these devices can save millions people li...

The Age of high technology has, in addition to the positive aspects, a number of shortcomings such as crime hacking and cyber-attacks. We are living in an Information Age when computers and telecommunication systems cover all areas of human life; however, humanity  can’t foresee all the opportunities for abuse which telecommunication systems and global computers create. Nowadays, not only the people, but also the whole countries could become the victims of criminal operations in the virtual space. In this case, the security of thousands users might depend on several criminals. The internet is an important part of our lives. Many people use social networks, email, etc. This is a good opportunity for cybercriminals because they use their knowledge in order to cause damage to many internet users. Cybercriminals are very good organized. They use many tools for obtaining private data. We have to care about our personal data on the sites we are visiting and on the computers we are ...

New TV shows worth watching 1. Taboo (8.8 on IMDb) http://deadline.com/2016/11/taboo-premiere-date-fx-bbc-tom-hardy-steven-knight-ridley-scott-1201854653/ “James Keziah Delaney returns to 1814 London after 10 years in Africa to discover that he has been left a mysterious legacy by his father.” 1 This TV Show might be not just released, but it’s still relatively a new one. Dark and mystical story created by Tom Hardy about the man who returned from Africa because of his father’s death. He found out that he inherited The Nootka Sound Island, which occurs to be a very important strategic object for the Great Britain. James Delaney is not one of the easy-going people, so The East India Company are looking for the ways to cooperate with Delaney or the ways to kill him. Great written and directed show! Highly recommend to watch. 2. Westworld (9.0 on IMDb) http://www.hbocanada.com/westworld “Westworld isn't your typical amusement park. Intended fo...