Learning Italian: Get well soon!

Trips to the doctor’s or the hospital are not on anyone’s itinerary while travelling abroad. However, if you do happen to fall ill or need medical advice in Italy, this blog will give you the confidence to talk to a doctor, dentist or pharmacist to help you get what you… Read More

Spanish word of the week: moral

The Spanish word 'moral' can be masculine or feminine depending on meaning. Read More

Environment Day 2024: a world of vocabulary

World Environment Day – 5 June – is a United Nations (UN)-designated day to raise awareness of the manifold environmental problems our world faces. Given the scope of the word ‘environment’, those problems include a broad swathe of often interconnected issues. This year the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, together with… Read More

Learning French: Asking questions

Got questions about question formation in French? Then our latest French conversation blog has got you covered! Read More

The time

Use … o’clock to say what time it is when the clock shows the exact hour. It finishes at eight o’clock. He got up this morning at five o’clock. It’s one o’clock – time for lunch! It’s four o’clock in the afternoon. Midday is used to mean twelve o’clock… Read More

French word of the week: partie

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 'partie'. Read More

Spanish word of the week: radio

The Spanish word 'radio' can be masculine or feminine depending on meaning. Read More

French word of the week: ranger

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 'ranger'. Read More

Countable and uncountable nouns

Countable nouns are the words for things that we can count. They have singular and plural forms. They can have a or an in front of them. If they are singular, they must have a word like a, an, the or his in front of them. She ate an… Read More