As you gear up to greet the New Year with a grand salute and joyful celebration, we want to shed a light on an outlandish Scottish custom for those celebrations. This traditional event which is called “Hogmanay” draws its origins in the 8th and 9th centuries,...

This Christmas is a special occasion for us. It's been a year now that we've started this blog and we would like to thank you all for following us. We do hope to see you again next year for more fun. As we began this blog with a Christmas video, we would...

The sheriff in the United States descends from a one-thousand-year-old English tradition: a " shire-reeve " (shire-keeper: keeper of a county). These people were appointed by the English crown when it established the newly settled American territories....

It is never too late to learn English. As long as you have good reasons and motivation to do so, you cannot but succeed. This story of an elderly deciding to learn the language is a good example of it. The video is in fact an advert for a very popular...