‘Easy Steps to Success with English’

In the Schoolhouse Rock animation short film called “Interjections!” different characters in different scenarios show anger, fear, surprise, joy, or excitement with the use of interjections. The clip below also has subtitles, so you sing along without scrolling down the page.
This is the easiest and most fun Easy English lesson thus far, in my […]

Conjunctions are parts of speech that connect words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. The most common ones are “and,” “but,” and “or.” But, “because,” “so,” and “however” are also conjunctions.
In the Schoolhouse Rock animation short film called “Conjunction Junction,” an engineer’s job is to connect railroad cars that represent words, phrases, and clauses with […]

So far, we’ve learned about nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
Here is a quick review of each of those three parts of speech: Nouns are people, places, or things that are also usually the subjects of sentences. Verbs are whatever the subjects in the sentences are doing or being. And, adjectives modify […]

Now that you’ve learned about nouns and verbs, it’s time to learn how to make these parts of speech more exciting. First, we’ll modify nouns with adjectives in this article. Then, we’ll modify verbs with adverbs in the next article.
In the Schoolhouse Rock animation short film called “Unpack Your Adjectives,” a little girl […]

Verbs are the parts of speech that show what the subject (usually a noun) of a sentence is doing or is being. See “Schoolhouse Rock: A Noun Is a Person, Place, or Thing” for the lesson on nouns.
As I suggested in that article, if you want to learn English quickly and […]

I learned more English from Sesame Street and Schoolhouse Rock than I did from my elementary school teachers back in the early 1970s.
If you want to learn English, I suggest watching Sesame Street and Schoolhouse Rock, even if you are an adult. You’re never too old to learn lessons in an easy […]

February 14, Valentine’s Day, is coming soon! This is the day that people around the world celebrate romantic love by giving special gifts to one another.
Americans have several traditions related to Valentine’s Day that you might want to know.
And, if you are secretly interested in anyone romantically, this is the perfect day […]

Life is fast-paced in America. People make decisions about you quickly here based on whatever they see you do and hear you say. So, when you walk into a restaurant or a bar and order a drink, they might judge you based on your choice of drink.
There are experts who claim they can […]

In the U.S., it is considered rude to ask questions about a person’s income, age, or weight. Americans want to be liked or disliked for who they are on the inside, not by things they feel powerless to control, like their income, age, or weight.
However, some of us still want to know these things […]

Leaving voicemail or telephone messages is surprisingly difficult.
Most people start strong, then ramble on, get flustered, but keep going anyway, until they leave an embarrassingly long and boring message.
The trick is to practice what you’re going to say before you pick up the phone. Then, it’s much easier!
Whether […]