V nedeľu 29. októbra 2006 o 19.00 hod. sa v Dome umenia v Košiciach uskutoční koncert pri príležitosti životného jubilea operného speváka, tenoristu Štefana...
V telocvični SOU dopravného na Moldavskej ulici v Košiciach sa v sobotu 26. marca 2006 stretli športoví priaznivci na II. ročníku volejbalového turnaja, ktorý sa...
V uplynulom týždni sa Rade mladých pri OZ METALURG podarilo úspešne zorganizovať turnaj v bowlingu. Toto, v tomto roku už druhé podujatie, sa stretlo s...
Kultúrne centrum Medzibodrožia a Použia v Kráľovskom Chlmci, obce Borša i Viničky a Združenie obcí Tokajského regiónu pozývajú obdivovateľov folklórnych...
Horúčava najväčšou prekážkou vytrvalcov na polmaratónskej trati Košice - Seňa
V sobotu 24. júna sa 146 bežcov a 47 korčuliarov postavilo na štart...
Pozoruhodné podujatie nesúce znaky výnimočnosti a plné snahy návštevníka prekvapiť a zaujať pripravili organizátori na nedeľu 2. júla. Kultúrne centrum
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Agenda - another word from Latin that is used in English and Slovak, as usual in different senses. The original meaning was "things needing to be done", and this idea
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Challenge. This is just the sort of word that is typical for having a slightly different meaning each time you find it used. This is mainly because its basic meaning
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This period of the year is rich in East-West cultural differences as well as similarities. There are jokes going round suggesting that "Christmas" has been outlawed in
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The summer internship piece includes several deadlines - final dates for successive stages in the selection process. Different things have to be done BEFORE these
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The logo "Safety First" makes me think about the differences between the words "logo", "brand", "make" and "trade mark", because all of them could be translated in
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Looking through my notes, I can't believe it was as far back as February 2002 when I dealt with "take" and "last", the two typical English translations of the Slovak
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The word skiing (remember to say /skí-ing/) covers two different activities: cross-country skiing, which is the equivalent of cross-country running on skis, and
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Civic, civil, civilian. All these adjective words are derived from the Latin word 'civis' meaning citizen, a city inhabitant, so the tricky thing is to make clear the
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The official opening of the Steel Arena - Ladislav Troják Winter Stadium last Friday produced an extraordinary gathering of Presidents and Vice-presidents of various
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There is a difference in the Slovak and English expressions explaining the system of winning play-off rounds in ice-hockey (or snooker - British-style "biliard")
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A year ago (give or take a month) I looked into the difference between 'replace', 'substitute' and 'exchange', saying that we replace the 'old' with the 'new', we
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"Coincidence" (náhoda, zhoda náhod). In Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament in the Bible, after God created the earth he made Adam and Eva and let them live
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Assuming that you remember that daffodils are full yellow narcissi, this time I am going to do a survey of various tricky words. Firstly "achieve" and "reach" - the
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This year looks like being a bumper edition (hustý ročník) in terms of elections (voľby). The trades unions have a new (staronový) Chairman, Košice people turned...
A Slovak tricky word this time: Trieda, as in Trieda KVP. This cannot be translated as the usual "class", because that is a group of school pupils, or maybe a lesson
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This week's expressions are tricky because of the difference in meaning between British and American varieties of English. The expressions are "ground floor" and
"first...
Level, standard and quality. This is another example of the theme of multiple translations of Slovak words into English (but also vice-versa - try to find a minimum of
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Visit and attend. These words are not the usual two translations of one Slovak word, but they express the difference in meaning between the two aspects (slovesný vid)
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