Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Annette explains three more colloquial contractions people use in everyday conversation: gotta [got to], gotcha [got you], and dunno [don't know]. She also gives us examples in context.
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
As writer and tour guide Susie Millar tells us about some of Northern Ireland's attractions, such as the Titanic museum and the incredibly beautiful Causeway Coastline, you won't want to wait any longer to buy a ticket for Belfast.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
The letter "O" is a tricky vowel, because there are several ways to pronounce it, both when it's single and when it's double!
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
This is the second film adaptation of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, published in 1953. The opening scenes show the arrival of 24 military school boys on a deserted island in the Pacific, after their airplane has crashed into the ocean.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Laid back American folk-rock musician Jack Johnson appears in the video to his hit recording “I Got You”. It’s off the album “From Here To Now To You”. Enjoy!
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Like the letter "M," "N" is almost singable. Sigrid gives you some tips about some very important words containing the letter "N."
Difficulty: Beginner
France, USA
This song from Schoolhouse Rock is to help kids understand about bones. Without bones, we're just blobs. It was written by George Newall and sung by Jack Sheldon.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Sigrid talks about some important words starting with "M" and gives us some tips about using many and much with countable and uncountable nouns.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
"Halloween Night" is a children's Halloween song designed to give kids a gentle introduction to Halloween and the traditional creatures and monsters associated with the celebration. Happy Halloween!
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Discover the new Nespresso commercial starring George Clooney and Jack Black. George is his usual charming self, and Jack Black is desperately trying to impress a woman, to the point of Italianizing his name.
Difficulty: Beginner
Australia
Penny is dancing with another guy to Great Balls of Fire while Timmy shyly looks on. But then something happens... The music for the final scene is the hit song from both 1963 and 1977 Da doo ron ron. These nonsense syllables were originally intended as placeholders until lyrics for those lines could be written, but they caught on, and were kept as actual (though nonsensical) lyrics.
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
British singer-songwriter Anne-Marie performs Ciao Adios, whose title uses both the Italian and the Spanish words for "bye." It's a break-up song, but rather than crying herself to sleep, the girl is getting over it and moving on in the midst of fast-paced lyrics and contagious dancehall-inflected rhythm.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Sigrid talks about a different way to say "OK," which involves the letter "L." Not everyone pronounces "L" the same way, and it can be hard to understand sometimes.
Difficulty: Beginner
Ireland
A live performance, by The Navvies, of a traditional Irish song about North men and South men being on the same road, and carrying the same burdens.
Difficulty: Newbie
United Kingdom
Anna explains when we use the present continuous, or present progressive tense and gives us some examples.
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