A week-by-week path through The English Nook.
Each roundup gathers the stories, readings, vocabulary, reflections, and discoveries that shaped each week.
-
Weekly Roundup — October 5–11, 2026
After 1066, English did not disappear. It lived beside French and Latin, borrowed from them, changed through contact with them, and eventually returned to positions of authority carrying that history within itself.
-
Weekly Roundup — September 28–October 4, 2026
September closed with sharper language for what happens within us. Then October arrived differently: through delirium, darkness, uncertain explanations, and the moment imagination begins giving shape to what we fear.
-
Weekly Roundup — September 21–27, 2026
Recovery is easy to imagine as a return. This week kept questioning that idea — through illness, adaptation, uncertainty, rest, rehabilitation, and the many ways we learn to continue differently.
-
Weekly Roundup — September 14–20, 2026
Some things begin before language catches up. This week followed the path from sensation to naming, from remedies to questions, from anxiety to silence — and from recognising that something is wrong to deciding what care might look like.
-
Weekly Roundup — September 7–13, 2026
Curiosity moved through this week in different forms: as a question, a climb, a lesson in attention, a habit learned before it was understood, and finally as evidence gathered against an accepted answer.
-
Weekly Roundup — August 31–September 6, 2026
Some weeks follow one road. This one kept changing shape: a dispatch, a month looking back, poetry crossing languages, an archive wandering without a map, the act of reading itself, and finally the boundary between expression and silence.
-
Weekly Roundup — August 24–30, 2026
This week, poetry moved from the ear to the page: through sound, rhythm, metre, shape, silence, and the voice that emerges between them. Alongside the week’s History Nook and Word Nook entries, the Weekly Roundup gathers the threads.
-
Weekly Roundup — August 17–23, 2026
This week at The English Nook: Animal Farm, fugitive words, literary adjectives, what English remembers, colliding ideas, uneven tides — plus seven History Nook figures and seven Words of the Week.
-
Weekly Roundup — August 3–9, 2026
This week, The English Nook explored voice, expression, writing, prose, More Than Words, and the vocabulary that helps language find its shape.
-
Spanish Finds a Home | Weekly Roundup — July 13–19, 2026
This week, The English Nook continued its second Spanish week with beginner lessons, fables, stories, archives, The Ravens’ Dispatch, and a new starting path into everyday conversation.
-
Spanish Opens the Door | Weekly Roundup — July 6–12, 2026
This week, The English Nook explored Spanish through reflection, three beginner lessons, two new fables, and a journey back through the archives.
-
Weekly Roundup — June 29–July 5, 2026
This week’s Roundup gathers the tropics, June’s closing reflections, Canada Day, English across the world, liberty, freedom, and Independence Day.
-
Weekly Roundup — June 15–21, 2026
This week’s roundup features Global Wind Day, a journey through the language of dry lands, a reflection on desertification and drought, an essay on inherited lessons, a vocabulary exploration of guidance, and a Father’s Day reading on the people who teach us through example.