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Vocabulary

10 posts
8 festive books to help you learn English
6 min read 6 min

This holiday season, what better way to get into the Christmas spirit (and improve your English voca...

20 words and phrases you didn’t know Shakespeare invented
3 min read 3 min

William Shakespeare was an incredible writer and poet, but did you know he also single-handedly adde...

How to memorize new vocabulary faster: 9 tips
5 min read 5 min

No matter how good your grammar is, if you don’t know any words that you can use it with, you (liter...

10 Victorian slang terms to start using today
3 min read 3 min

Ah, the Victorian Era — a time of corsets, top hats, and strict societal rules. But did you know tha...

10 (more) weird words in English
4 min read 4 min

There are over 171,000 words in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Wi...

7 slang words you need to know in 2017
2 min read 2 min

2016 may have been the year of Brexit and describing everything as lit but now we’re in 2017 there’s...

10 Spanish expressions everyone should know
5 min read 5 min

Spanish is one of the world’s most widely-spoken languages and Castilian (the version spoken in Spai...

Talk like a true Brit: 8 (more) expressions to master
3 min read 3 min

Did you enjoy my last post on British expressions that will make you sound like a true Brit? If so, ...

12 weirdest words in English
1 min read 1 min

It’s not that hard to find a few weird words among the approximately 750,000 words that make up the ...

13 Beautiful Words With No English Translation
5 min read 5 min

One of the most beautiful features of languages is that they give us the vocabulary to express ourse...