I’ve got another English learning QnA for you today. You can check out the last one here: I Can’t Understand My Friends. I really like these thoughtful and interesting questions. “Hi Sam, I have some friends who are English speakers from different countries. Most are from America. I think they speak clearly, but when they

If you didn’t already know, I’m working on a new higher-level English project. Since announcing it, I’ve received some really interesting questions. Here’s one from someone who’s currently studying in the UK. He didn’t want me to share his name, so let’s call him Steven. – – – “Hi Sam – your project sounds interesting!

In the previous lesson, I told you about my fiancé’s lost earrings and the challenge of discovering English. If you haven’t read it yet, click here to read it… Like I said before… Discovering English is a great way to learn, and it works best when you know what you’re looking for and when you’re

I’ve got a quick question for you today… If someone said to you, “Can you help me find my thing?”, what would you do? I’m guessing you would say, “What does it look like?” or “What is it?“… You probably wouldn’t start looking for the ‘thing’ if you didn’t know what the ‘thing’ was. Well,

Vultures have a bad reputation. It might be because of that infamous photograph of the child and the vultures, or just the common belief that vultures are dirty, vile creatures. So, why do I say that you should become a language vulture? It’s simple really… Most of the beliefs about vultures are misinformed. Yes, vultures

Wow… what a year 2016 was… It was a year of endings and beginnings. It was definitely been a year that not too many people will forget. But, alas, at this time of year most people in the western world do three things: Reflect of the past year Think ahead to the future Drink a

In 2016, the English For Study website was brought into existence when the first articles were published in April/May. Over the past 8 or so months, English For Study has grown, and I’m incredibly happy to be able to help so many English learners around the world to improve their English. So, to celebrate the end

Don’t worry, this ‘hook up with’ lesson is quite innocent After yesterday’s tip, I received some cracking emails. And I want to share one of them with you right now because it made me laugh out loud. But there’s also a valuable lesson in it, too. This is another story about phrasal verbs, and it