When you know the meaning of words, it is much easier to retain the word itself. Nothing is more embarrassing when someone uses a word in conversation that you don’t understand. Or worse, [...]

A Word A Day is  a great habit and for the English language learner to adopt, and its also a pretty effortless and fun way to expand your vocabulary.  Here are some tips for learning A Word A Day [...]

When you read a book, you are building your vocabulary in a pleasurable way. Vocabulary enables better communication. The size of your vocabulary also makes comprehension of reading material a [...]

There is no way around it – you should own an English dictionary if you want to  build your vocabulary. There are great online dictionaries, such as The Free Dictionary, and Merriam Webster’s [...]

  Ahhhh!  So many ways to talk the (English)  talk! The English language is constantly being populated with new words. No word demonstrates this more than the word  ‘talk.’  From Olde [...]

Many of our TALK English students may be a bit confused when they try talking football with an American and they find that they are on a subject they never knew they were interested in. [...]

Karma is a word that we all know well. In fact, we use it a lot!   Karma is a way of looking at the world that seems to make total sense.  And it’s a word for which there is no direct [...]

As if learning to speak  English is not enough.  But these fabulous  words deserve a place in everybody’s vocabulary! These are untranslatable words in English, there is not phrasal or word [...]

While you would have thought we have introduced other words to use instead of awesome, the word is still very much the default expression for anything nice, beautiful, great, wonderful … [...]

Nerd, geek and dork are really popular English words used today, considered to be words that came out of the Digital Age, but, in fact, the origins of nerd, geek, dork are all from the United [...]