A bit of English every day
Welcome to my English learning support space! Here you’ll find some written explanations, as well as videos to help you become familiar with the sound of English from all around the world. Some of them are about learning the English language, but you can also find videos about traveling, cooking, music and many other topics. You’ll find shorts, reels, and longer videos so you can choose the format you like best. Just make sure you have your computer or phone settings on English in the language section! Learning to communicate in English with confidence can be a challenge, but there’s a secret to making it easier: put a little bit of English into your everyday life.
Different ways to say “wrong”
Tiffani explains why choosing your words is important, and gives us many different, and more diplomatic, alternatives to “wrong”.
How do you pronounce “water”?
It depends on where you’re from! English actress Emily Blunt shows us how even in a family of native English speakers words can be pronounced very differently, with her daughter choosing between the pronunciation of her English mother and her American father.
The discovery of infrared light
Astrophysicist and science communicator Neil De Grasse Tyson gives us one of his “lightning” lessons on how infrared light was discovered by William Herschel, building on the discovery of white light by Isaac Newton.