Outtake from the Film “Tommy,” directed by Ken Russell, featuring Roger Daltrey singing The Who song “I’m Free.”

A fun and easy video where you get to learn the words you use to describe your family members and your relationship to them. A family tree helps in visualizing the connections.

How do you feel? This beginner video will help you find the right adjective to describe how you're feeling.

Let's find out more about an American activity aimed at school kids: the spelling bee. What is it and how does it work?

Sigrid talks about "The Elementary Spelling Book" by Noah Webster, which was the basis for the American English dictionary and a big part of the development of spelling bees in the United States.

Sigrid explains how a spelling bee normally proceeds. There are fixed rules and there are options.

Let's have a look at which countries are members of the European Union and where they are on the map.

Every day, we get information from lots of different sources. But how do we know what is true and what is "fake news?" In this 3-part series we explore different kinds of information and misinformation.

In case you have trouble signing in to Yabla after signing up, here's a tutorial to help you out.

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

This video advises you on how to use the subway in New York. It is easy to follow and for this reason very suitable for beginners!

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.

"Space Oddity" remains one of David Bowie's most famous songs. Inspired by Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), it is about the launch of Major Tom, a fictional astronaut.

Learn and practice the days of the week in English with this fun kids’ video from the American alternative band They Might Be Giants’ album Here Come the 123s!

The band They Might Be Giants constructed a song with lyrics consisting just of the names of countries, so this is a great chance to brush up on the English forms of place names. But one hint: West Xylophone is, unfortunately not really the name of an actual country!