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Some of you may be lucky enough to be learning English just for fun or personal development, without any pressure or deadline. However, one of the more common, less fun reasons for studying English is exam preparation: many companies, governments and universities require non-English speakers to sit an offical exam to establish their level of […]
The verbs do and make can be confusing in English, especially for German learners as both verbs usually translate as machen. English uses both make and do for machen, so as a German speaker you’ll have to choose! For example, you can say: do an exercise. But you can’t say: do a cake*. The phrase […]
If you’ve ever tried to get your head around English pronunciation rules, you know that it can be terribly frustrating! First of all, there are some very ‘’challenging’’ (some would say impossible!) sounds (the th sound, for example). Secondly, no other language in the world has more words spelled the same way yet pronounced differently, […]
Was bedeutet bees knees auf Deutsch?
Wie schreibt mann andere auf englisch?
Wann benutze ich „sky“ und wann „heaven“ als Übersetzung für den „Himmel“?
Wie schreibt man „Bei der Oma“ auf englisch? Benutzt man „by“ oder „at“?
Wie benutzt man „oder“ in Fragestellungen auf englisch?
Describing someone by their age is always tricky, should I write year-old or years-old?
Lend me or borrow me? See which one is correct on our english grammar blog.
How do you talk about your interests in english?
Discussing and talking are two things we do often, find out how to use these verbs correctly.
Have you just finished your exams? Are you waiting for the results? Have a look at this grammar post about a common mistake.
Practise english with an app. We check out Memrise, Reverso Context and the British Council’s Learn English Grammar app.
German speakers often mix up the words before and ago. Learn how to get it right!
Learn english with an app. Find out how they can help you and how they work.
Tell me which one is correct. They came to the office yesterday or they came yesterday to the office?
A sweet way to remember to add the „s“ verb ending in english, when you talk about a „she“ a „he“ or an „it“.
You may know the general rule in english, add “ly” to the end of an adjective to make an adverb, that is a word which describes how a verb or an action took place . Like quiet and quietly, slow and slowly. But hard and hardly are exceptions.
So when should you say „too much“ or „too many“ in english?