Tag: American English

Shop & Shopping English

In this post we'll look at vocabulary related to different kinds of shops and shopping, including common idioms.

Garden Vocabulary

"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust." Gertrude Jekyll, a British horticulturist

British English in “A Street Cat Named Bob”

This post will look at British English vocabulary used by the author of the book. We'll also give the American English counterparts and the extracts which contain the vocabulary.

How to Describe Films

Did you like the latest Godzilla reboot and the live-action adaptation of Aladdin? Would you like to watch the Men in Black spinoff and the upcoming animated version of The Addams Family? No matter what you choose to watch, we hope your viewing experience is always positive. Read this blog to know how to talk about films, and to learn useful collocations and idioms related to the topic...

Bricks, Wallflowers and Doormats: Fun Words to Describe Personality

What do you call a person who chooses to live alone, or someone at a social event who has no one to dance or talk with? Read on and you will know the answers.

Public Transportation English

Boost your vocabulary, learn the difference between "subway", "underground", "metro" and "tube", "transport" and "transportation", "schedule" and "timetable" reading this post...

7 Wonders of the English Language

If you are one of those people who think their first language is so much richer than the target language, English, this post is for you. No, it's not written to claim that English is "richer" or any better than whatever your mother tongue is. In fact, it wouldn't be correct to compare languages because all of them are fabulously rich and wonderful in their own way. So, it would be like comparing strawberry varieties - they all are different, but they all are strawberries, sweet, juicy and delicious...