English Bite — My Family: Family Words in English
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Tag: Vocabulary
English Bite — At the Market: Food Words in English
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English Bite — Animals I’ve Seen: From Sydney to La Réunion
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English Bite — My Daughter Taught Me: Colours in English
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Circumlocution: Talking Around the Words You Don’t Know
My first year of French in Paris, I didn't know the word for 'dishwasher'. So I said: 'la machine qui lave les assiettes' — the machine that washes the plates inside your kitchen. My colleague…
Collocations: Words That Travel Together in English
In English, you do not 'make' homework — you 'do' it. You do not 'do' a mistake — you 'make' one. These are collocations: word partnerships that native speakers use automatically, without thinking. I learned…
Describing Emotions — Beyond Happy and Sad (A1/A2)
From Sourov's world: My daughter is about 18 months old. She can only say a few words — but her face says everything. One morning she discovers a snail in our garden in Saint-Pierre, La…
MAKE vs DO — Which One Do You Use? (A2)
From Sourov's world: On my very first shift at The Ivy in Sydney, I went up to the floor manager and told him confidently: "I did an effort to arrive early today." He looked at…
False Friends — English and French Words That Lie (B1)
Words that look the same — but mean something completely different
Idioms with COME — The Journey Word (B2)
From Sourov's world: When I first came across English idioms in Australia, they didn't come naturally at all. I remember sitting in the break room at Star Casino and my colleagues speaking — I could…