Several people had a hand in the development of this textbook. The original idea to develop such a course was suggested by Marion Merrick, to whom I remain grateful for her initiative. Tibor Fabiny and Katalin Halácsy, the chairs of the Institute of English and American Studies at PPCU between 1993 and 2007, both approved of and supported the inclusion of such a course into the compulsory curriculum. For many years, I have been collaborating with Gabriella Reuss, Tamás Karáth, Erzsébet Stróbl, and Kinga Földváry, my co-teachers of this course, on the development of the textbooks, tests, teaching methods, and many other aspects of the course. They have provided me with countless new ideas, different points of view and useful advice. Colin Swatridge, visiting scholar at Pázmány University in 2001, improved the course significantly with his tough but constructive criticism. My collaboration with Júlia Fodor from Károli Gáspár University on the development of a digital teaching material entitled Land Rover (2006) also offered new insights into the optimal character of a revised textbook. I would like to express my special gratitude to Tamás Karáth, who read the 2007 and 2010 versions of the textbook and made many corrections, as well as to Erzsébet Stróbl, who was the reader of the 2014 version and besides correcting a number of error, also recommended several modifications with a sharp eye for practicability. All the remaining errors and ommissions are mine, of course.