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If You Want to Improve, Study More Often

Which study pattern do you think will work best? Weekend Course (every weekend):  12 hours 1-day Intensive (every week): 8 hours Daily Practice: 20 mins every day If you chose "Daily Practice" you are right.   Learning...

Listen and Learn with Podcasts

Podcasts can be a great way to brush up on your English skills and can fit into almost any kind of schedule. Even just putting one on in the background while you cook dinner or do the laundry can be a great benefit to your English learning routine. C...

How Much is it Worth?

If you're talking about the cost of something in English, then you might find a lot of words and phrases to choose from. What's the value of this watch? Can you give me an estimate? Maybe I should have it appraised. In this video Yuki helps explain t...

Talking about the Future

There are a few different ways to talk about the future in the English language and "will" and "going to" are two of the most common methods. But what is the difference between them and how do we use them correctly? The following video should help c...

Using “ed” and “ing” adjectives

There are many adjectives in English that end with ed and ing. The difficult part is that they often sound very similar which can be confusing for English learners. Find out the differences between them with some tips in this short video lesson. ...

Tricky phrasal verbs with “hand”

The English language is full of phrasal verbs. Adding a preposition like "on" or "off" can totally change the meaning of the word before it. Some commonly used phrasal verbs are hand in, hand out, hand off and hand over but they all have different u...

Understanding Too vs. Very

It can be pretty easy to mix up these tricky English adverbs. Sometimes they might be used in the same situation but there is a slight shade of difference in how they are used and what they really mean. This video should help clear up some of the co...