Look out for more essential vocab words in this video, as Maria hides from her mother and Clark, and her friend Molly comes to the rescue.

Maria makes a daring escape from the restaurant. She has a date with Spencer and doesn’t want to be late. Her mother and Clark are left behind, looking displeased.

As lunch arrives, Maria feels trapped... how can she tell her mother that she’s already in love with another man, and that Clark does not interest her at all!

Maria’s mother has a surprise... she’s found a nice young man that she’d like Maria to meet! Maria really doesn’t know what to do.

Annette explains what colloquial contractions are, and shows us three popular ones: "kinda," "wanna," and "gonna." She tells us where these words come from and how they're used in context.

Maria arrives at the café covered in mud, but her mother is unsympathetic about her bad luck. As it turns out, she has a surprise in store for Maria!

Maria’s mother waits all morning in the café. She will certainly have some questions for Maria, if and when she arrives!

Maria is going out for lunch, but first she must choose which clothes to wear. She’d better hurry, or she will be late!

Maria and Oscar have fun in the park, and we learn more of the most common words in the English language.

In this episode, we learn about the strong bond between Maria and her pet dog, Oscar. It takes only simple, but very important vocabulary to say, “I love you!”

More simple, but very common words are used in context in part three of this series for beginners. We learn more of the most common prepositions and new conjugations of the verb "to be."

In part two, we learn five more common and crucial words, and learn them in the best way possible: in context!

Welcome to this beginner series, in which the one hundred most commonly used words in the English language are used in context. Master them, and you will be on the way to becoming an English speaker!

Yabla wishes everyone the happiest of holidays! Here is some Christmas vocabulary to learn at this special time of year.

Sigrid muses about how much she loves this time of year and time of day where she lives in Italy. If she had one complaint, it would be: too much green!

Sigrid describes her day using verbs in the simple past tense. Each verb will flash on the screen in the past tense with the infinitive in parentheses, just in case you need a little help. There is even a vegetarian pasta recipe included!

Get ready for another round of "Think Fast!" Sigrid will describe some objects and you have to figure out what each object is. Even if you don't know the word for it in English, you are still doing great if you can visualize the object being described.

Elderly couple Harold and Gertrude reminisce about their first date together. Although their memories are a little hazy, they can agree that it was a very special day!

Paul, who has an Australian accent, shares what he's noticed about the differences between the English spoken in England and in the USA.

Tommy is worried that nobody came to his baseball game, but it turns out that someone in his family did go. Find out who it was, and learn how to talk about past activities in the past tense!

In this video, you'll hear people talk about the past and the present. A man recites his poem, and then we go to a commercial break, where the fictional company Presto seems to have cornered almost every market with its wonder products!

Here are some examples of sentences using both the active and passive voices. Different tenses are used, too!

Learn how to ask and say what you did this morning, yesterday, or on the weekend. With their humorous take on everyday life, the Side by Side team shows you how!

What do people traditionally do on Memorial Day and Labor Day? Let's find out.