A warm welcome back to our French language learners! Our weekly vocabulary blog is here to help you learn another new word – today we’ve chosen the verb souhaiter. The pronunciation of this verb infinitive might not be quite how you’d expect from how it looks. Read More
Dependent is usually an adjective. It is often followed by the preposition ‘on’. If someone is dependent on something or someone, they need them in order to succeed or be able to survive. Just 26 per cent of households are married couples with dependent children. The local economy is overwhelmingly dependent on oil and gas… Read More
Whether you're grabbing a coffee to go, or planning a meal at a fancy restaurant, you'll find the French phrases you need when dining out in our latest Learning French blog. Bon appétit ! Read More
It’s time to play with another couple of similar-looking Spanish nouns with different endings, genders and meanings and to find out how they’re most commonly used. Today’s pair are muñeco and muñeca. 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 'conseil'. Read More
1. You use less in front of an uncountable noun to say that one quantity is not as big as another, or that a quantity is not as big as it was before. A shower uses less water than a bath. His work gets less attention than it deserves.Although some people think it is wrong, you… Read More
We aren’t exactly branching out this week as we’re again disentangling a pair of similar-looking Spanish nouns with different endings and genders to see if we can twig their differences in usage. This week’s duo are ramo (masculine) and rama (feminine). Read More
Whose and who’s are homophones that are often confused by learners and native speakers of English alike. Here is a short guide to help understand the difference between them. whose Whose is a determiner. You use whose to ask or say who something or someone belongs or relates to. I know whose fault it is. Whose… Read More