How to Improve Your English Vocabulary
Here are 17 specific things you should be doing to take your English vocabulary to the next level.
How to be Polite in English
It’s hard to be polite and diplomatic in your second language. To help you, here are eight techniques and 50+ expressions you can use.
37 Idioms About School, Education, and Academic Learning
If you’re in an educational environment with English speakers, you’ll hear a variety of idioms. Here are 37 of them you may come across. How many do you know?
100 Preposition Collocations You Should Know
Prepositions don’t always make sense. Sometimes you have to throw logic out the window and just memorize the word combinations. Here are 100 preposition collocations you should know.
25 Common English Mistakes That Even Advanced Learners Make
Nobody’s English is perfect, including yours. Are you making these 25 English mistakes that even advanced learners are guilty of?
When is it Okay to Use Ain’t?
We generally want to avoid using the negative contraction ain’t, but there are two situations in which it’s perfectly fine to use it.
Grammar Rules That Native Speakers Break in Conversation
Real people don’t talk like grammar textbooks. Here are some grammar rules that you will hear native speakers break in informal conversation.
40 Idioms About Crime and Criminal Justice
We use a ton of idioms for talking about criminal justice. Here are 40 of them you’ll probably hear at some point. How many do you know?
12 Idioms and Expressions for Talking About Busy People
We have a variety of other ways to say busy. Here are 12 alternatives you can use.
Other Terms for Arrive and Leave That You Might Not Know
Here are a handful of natural-sounding synonyms for leave and arrive that you are likely to come across.
22 Better Ways to Say That a Person is Nice
There are many descriptive adjectives for describing a nice person. Here are 22 of them you should know.
Shades of Meaning in Verbs
Do you know the differences in meaning between these verbs?