This series of weekly blogs takes a closer look at words from our French dictionaries. The word we're focusing on this week is the French verb 'sembler'. Read More
VERBS A verb tells us about an action or a state of being. Ordinary verbs are called main verbs. For example: come, go, think, want, escape, believe. A main verb is sometimes called a ‘doing word’. A special group of verbs are called auxiliary verbs. These can be put together with main verbs to… Read More
Eat largely of spinage The twenty-sixth of March is National Spinach Day, a lead-in to talking about one of my favourite vegetables – and that host of others that can bring joy to our tables. Well, ‘joy’ not just in my and Popeye’s opinion but in that of the Methodist… Read More
It’s time to disentangle two more similar-looking and potentially confusable Spanish nouns. These are cinto (masculine) and cinta (feminine). Read More
In order to talk confidently about your plans in English, it’s useful to know some essential phrases that relate to months and dates.
The months of the year in English are:
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. Read More
This series of weekly blogs takes a closer look at words from our French dictionaries. The word we're focusing on this week is the French noun 'arrêt'. Read More
This series of weekly blogs takes a closer look at words from our French dictionaries. The word we're focusing on this week is the French verb 'entrer'. Read More