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The English nobody taught you

You know every fruit in your mother tongue. This is the same knowledge in English — the names first, then the small words that hold them together. Each lesson is a few minutes, spoken aloud, and ends with five questions.

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Newest lessons

  1. 170 Two words that mean one thing — ten of them Two words that mean one thing
  2. 169 More from the kitchen — ten words In the kitchen, and what happens to food
  3. 168 Ten words from the kitchen In the kitchen, and what happens to food
  4. 167 Rules, and the breaking of them — ten words Rules, and what happens when they are broken

The lessons

All of them free, and finished. Start anywhere — each one stands on its own.

Beginner

Real places, and the English each one asks for.

The market and the street 10
  1. 1 At the fruit stall
  2. 2 a or an?
  3. 3 The rest of the fruit
  4. 4 The everyday vegetables
  5. 5 The new things in the market
  6. 6 The app cab
  7. 7 The signs in the big store
  8. 8 Ordering in a restaurant
  9. 9 The workman at the door
  10. 10 At the desk for your child
At the school 10
  1. 11 The circular in the bag
  2. 12 The class WhatsApp group
  3. 13 At the parents' meeting
  4. 14 When you need to tell the teacher something
  5. 15 The admission form
  6. 16 Fees, receipts and dates
  7. 17 The report card
  8. 18 Called to the office
  9. 19 Sports day and the notice board
  10. 20 At the school gate
The doctor and the chemist 10
  1. 21 At the chemist's counter
  2. 22 Telling the doctor what hurts
  3. 23 Before food or after food
  4. 24 The blood test
  5. 25 Reading the prescription
  6. 26 At the reception desk
  7. 27 When it is urgent
  8. 28 The vaccination card
  9. 29 Say it back
  10. 30 Taking it home
The bank 5
  1. 31 Back at the counter
  2. 32 The three columns
  3. 33 The ATM screen
  4. 34 The call that asks for the OTP
  5. 35 The letter from the bank
The railway station 5
  1. 36 The numbers on the ticket
  2. 37 WL, RAC, CNF
  3. 38 The platform changed
  4. 39 Short questions
  5. 40 Where the coach will stop
Papers and forms 6
  1. 41 Self-attested
  2. 42 The slip they hand back
  3. 43 Valid upto
  4. 44 Before you sign
  5. 45 Original or copy
  6. 46 Nothing left blank
The airport 6
  1. 47 Two times on the boarding pass
  2. 48 Which bag goes where
  3. 49 Through security
  4. 50 The gate changed
  5. 51 Once you are on board
  6. 52 The bag, and the people outside
The phone 6
  1. 53 What the phone says to you
  2. 54 Making room without losing the photos
  3. 55 Allow or deny
  4. 56 The panel you pull down
  5. 57 On the video call
  6. 58 Getting back
Bills and connections 5
  1. 59 The number that is not the bill
  2. 60 Due date, and the day after
  3. 61 Nobody read your meter
  4. 62 The complaint number
  5. 63 Booking the cylinder
Buying, and being sold to 5
  1. 64 Warranty or guarantee
  2. 65 The bill that fades
  3. 66 The words on an EMI offer
  4. 67 Return or exchange
  5. 68 Just looking
The housing society 5
  1. 69 The notice board
  2. 70 The maintenance bill
  3. 71 The AGM
  4. 72 The NOC
  5. 73 Putting it in writing
Saying it yourself 5
  1. 74 When the word will not come
  2. 75 Where, how much, can I
  3. 76 The simple word is the right word
  4. 77 When they do not understand
  5. 78 The other side of the counter

Intermediate

How a sentence is built, one rule at a time.

Is, have and do 6
  1. 79 am, is, are — which one, when
  2. 80 have, not having
  3. 81 when -ing is right
  4. 82 do, does, did — the helper
  5. 83 was and were
  6. 84 there is, there are
Asking a question 6
  1. 85 The swap
  2. 86 When there is no is
  3. 87 what, where, when — and what follows
  4. 88 how much, how many
  5. 89 The question inside a question
  6. 90 … isn't it?
a, an and the 6
  1. 91 He is a doctor
  2. 92 a — any one of them
  3. 93 the — the one you both mean
  4. 94 Sometimes, no word at all
  5. 95 to office, or to the office
  6. 96 a becomes the
in, on and at 6
  1. 97 at, on, in — for time
  2. 98 at, on, in — for place
  3. 99 to, and where it disappears
  4. 100 discuss about, married with
  5. 101 on the bus, off the bus
  6. 102 at night, and the days with no word
One, or many 5
  1. 103 He go, or he goes
  2. 104 two book, or two books
  3. 105 this, these, that, those
  4. 106 one of my friends
  5. 107 The words that look like many

Advanced

The harder machinery, once the rest is steady.

Joining two sentences 6
  1. 108 and, but, so
  2. 109 because, and only once
  3. 110 although, and the same trap again
  4. 111 who and which
  5. 112 when, while, after
  6. 113 Three sentences into one
Saying what somebody said 6
  1. 114 One step back
  2. 115 today becomes that day
  3. 116 Reporting a question
  4. 117 said and told
  5. 118 She asked me to wait
  6. 119 The whole conversation
If, and paper English 6
  1. 120 If it rains
  2. 121 If I had known
  3. 122 I would like
  4. 123 The form was signed
  5. 124 Your application has been received
  6. 125 Reading it, then asking

Words worth having

Five hundred words, ten a day, each one a picture and a small story.

What people are like 6
  1. 126 What people are like — ten words
  2. 127 What people are like — ten more words
  3. 128 How people go about things — ten words
  4. 129 The ones that sound alike — ten words
  5. 130 What happens between people — ten words
  6. 165 What a person is, and how they grow — ten words
What people feel 3
  1. 131 What is going on inside — ten words
  2. 132 What is going on inside — ten more words
  3. 133 What is going on inside — the last ten words
How much there is 3
  1. 134 How much there is — ten words
  2. 135 How exact the number is — ten words
  3. 164 How much, how little — ten words
Money and work 5
  1. 136 Ten money words
  2. 137 Where the money goes — ten words
  3. 138 Ten words for work
  4. 139 Papers, and what they cost you — ten words
  5. 140 The bigger picture — ten words
How things change 5
  1. 141 How things change — ten words
  2. 142 Ending, and coming back — ten words
  3. 143 What force does, and what time does — ten words
  4. 144 Becoming something else — ten words
  5. 145 How fast, and when — ten words
What you think, and how you know 3
  1. 146 Looking, and what you decide from it — ten words
  2. 147 Looking back, and looking ahead — ten words
  3. 163 Weighing it up — ten words
Saying it, and how hard you say it 4
  1. 148 Telling, and how hard you push — ten words
  2. 149 When something has gone wrong — ten words
  3. 150 How it comes out of your mouth — ten words
  4. 151 Telling, answering, and settling it — ten words
Dates, times and being late 5
  1. 152 Dates, times and being late — ten words
  2. 153 Fast and slow — ten words
  3. 154 Before and after — ten words
  4. 155 How often — ten words
  5. 156 Moments and ages — ten words
Why it happened, and what followed 3
  1. 157 Why it happened — ten words
  2. 158 What it does, and what it leaves — ten words
  3. 159 The words that join two facts — ten words
When something goes wrong 3
  1. 160 When something goes wrong — ten words
  2. 161 Putting it right — ten words
  3. 162 Getting ready, and facing it — ten words
The land, the rain and what grows 1
  1. 166 The land, the rain and the crop — ten words
Rules, and what happens when they are broken 1
  1. 167 Rules, and the breaking of them — ten words
In the kitchen, and what happens to food 2
  1. 168 Ten words from the kitchen
  2. 169 More from the kitchen — ten words
Two words that mean one thing 1
  1. 170 Two words that mean one thing — ten of them

How it works

Each lesson is told aloud in your own language, with the English said clearly for you to repeat. Then five questions — not to grade you, but so the words stay. Nothing is saved anywhere but on this phone.

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