Words of the week
Persons and Relatives: Week 12
During casual or formal conversations in another language, it is almost always certain that you would need to mention words for certain persons and relatives.
This week, let us focus on these words. Use the dictionary of the language you are learning to determine the equivalent words for the English words below.
date: week 11
Last week, we talked about the most important time-related words. Let us now focus on the date-related words in the language you are learning.
Time: Week 10
When you're in another country, talking with locals about the time is one of the best ways to learn their language. Also, learning how to speak the time-related words of the locals' language can endear you to them.
Prepositions: Week 9
Prepositions are function words that connect nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase being introduced by the preposition is called the object. The main task of the preposition is to specify the spatial, temporal, or logical relationship of the object to the rest of the sentence.
Interrogatives: The Question Words: week 8
Asking questions is certainly one of the best ways to get the information you need. Particularly if you are learning a new language, knowing how to ask a specific question can help you properly communicate the inquiry you wish to have answered.
Locations: Week 7
Being able to go to places when you’re in another country is certainly exciting and rewarding. And the first step to do this is to learn the names of the most important places to visit. This helps you a lot in communicating properly with locals, who after all, can give you the most useful information about the locations you want to go to.
Here is a list of the English names of places you would normally visit while you’re in another country. Use the dictionary of the language you’re learning to know the meanings of these words.
Numbers: Week 6
This week it is time to get familiar with the numbers. It is hard to imagine a day, even an hour without using numbers. Of course, you can use your fingers too, but that makes things quite limited.
The Most Frequent Nouns: Week 5
This week I have an interesting list of the most frequent nouns.
Pronouns: Week 4
Last week we looked at verbs. This week let's add the pronouns, so we can use the verbs in many different contexts.
The Most Frequently Used Verbs: Week 3
This week let's look at the most frequently used verbs. These verbs are among the most frequent 150 English words.