Are you hands down the best at using English idioms? Or does the thought of seemingly random phrases make you feel a bit under the weather?One of the ...
Ah, the Victorian Era — a time of corsets, top hats, and strict societal rules. But did you know that it was also a time of vibrant and constantly evo...
This holiday season, what better way to get into the Christmas spirit (and improve your English vocabulary skills) than by reading some festive novels...
William Shakespeare was an incredible writer and poet, but did you know he also single-handedly added more than 1,700 words to the English language? S...
No matter how good your grammar is, if you don’t know any words that you can use it with, you (literally) won’t get very far with your language skills...
There are over 171,000 words in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. With that many to choose from, you can be sure that ...
2016 may have been the year of Brexit and describing everything as lit but now we’re in 2017 there’s a whole new delivery of fresh slang words all Eng...
Spanish is one of the world’s most widely-spoken languages and Castilian (the version spoken in Spain) charms expats and tourists as quickly as the co...
Did you enjoy my last post on British expressions that will make you sound like a true Brit? If so, read on. There are hundreds of other great sayings...
It’s not that hard to find a few weird words among the approximately 750,000 words that make up the English language (we dug up the 12 most beautiful ...
One of the most beautiful features of languages is that they give us the vocabulary to express ourselves. Gone are the days when we just had to make g...
