This lucky girl has her birthday next week and is planning a trip with friends. She plans a train trip through France and Belgium, and books the perfect hotel in Amsterdam. She has lots of ideas for things to see and do in the city, and some new food she wants to try.

It’s time to prepare for her weekend in Amsterdam. Our friend packs her clothes, toiletry bag, things to read, and a few other essentials. Will she need an umbrella?

In this video, Austin shows budding guitarists an exercise to increase the accuracy and dexterity of their fingers as they move across the guitar frets. The chords appear relatively simple, but Austin assures us that it’s not as easy as he makes it look!

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

As the harvest ends and the Christmas season approaches, families across the United States come together to share a lavish meal in the annual celebration known as Thanksgiving. In this video, we learn some of the crucial vocabulary used at this special time of year.

In this video, we can enjoy a performance of the British royal and national anthem "God Save the Queen." Hayley Dee Westenra is a classical crossover singer and songwriter from New Zealand.

Caralie demonstrates the use of 12 useful, everyday verbs. Do you know them all?

During this lesson, English teacher Alexander presents and explains different greetings in English and the time of day when each is used.

Watch this video featuring Alexander Pointer to learn the many ways of greeting people in English.

Alexander Pointer takes us through the conjugations of the verb "to be" in the present tense and explains how to form the contraction (otherwise known as the "short form") for each one.

Actor Caralie Balcom from New York teaches us letters and numbers and sings the alphabet song at the top of the Empire State Building.

Anna explains when we use the present continuous, or present progressive tense and gives us some examples.

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.

Happy New Year to everybody on our beautiful planet Earth from the International Space Station!

Jessica takes us on a walk through Prospect Park. She stops several times to point out and describe various objects along the way.