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?

Abi needs to make some space on her untidy desk. We accompany her through the organizing process, and learn all sorts of vocabulary along the way.

Abi carefully packs her picnic basket with food and utensils, and is off to the park to set everything up for today’s elegant picnic!

Abi has found a special dictionary that she hopes will help her friend learn lots of new vocabulary. Picture dictionaries are not ordered alphabetically, but instead organized by theme.

Abi opens her picture dictionary and introduces us to some useful vocabulary pertaining to houses. In particular, she focuses on the outside areas surrounding the house and various tools.

In this video teachers learn how they can create assignments for their students and how they can review their student’s progress.

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!

Let’s learn some colors and numbers in this simple video for beginners!

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!

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

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 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!”

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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.

When Maria arrives home, her dog Oscar is waiting for her, and Spencer has brought her a gift! Maria decides it’s time to introduce Spencer to Oscar.

Oscar the dog has been very bad, but Maria and Spencer have no time to hang around... they’re off to the movies. It’s just too bad that Clark sees them as they walk to the theater!

Maria and Spencer are seen by her mother and Clark as they go on a date. Desperate to be left alone, Maria decides they must write a note to her mother, and Spencer agrees.