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English · Chapter 1
7 grammar primers, 1 story milestone.
Introduction
Start here. What this course is, who it is for, and how to learn the most common English words first so you can read and speak sooner.
Vocabulary
The handful of words that appear in almost every English sentence: the articles and the words that point at things.
Review session
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
The pronouns: how to talk about yourself, the person you speak to, and everyone else.
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
The small words of every conversation: yes and no, not, okay, oh, thank you, really. Enough to answer, agree and say no.
Grammar primer
I am, you are, she is. The most common verb in English, with not and with questions: Are you okay? Yes, I am.
KiloKombat dojo
Learn 10 new words faster than a rival. Spar the training partner to earn your grams, then challenge a real person - winner takes a tooth.
When to use a, an and the - the small words English learners get wrong most often.
The most common verbs. With these you can already say what people do and how things are.
How English says what is true now and what happens again and again - the everyday tense.
The small joining words - and, but, of, to - that hold a sentence together.
Whose is it? My, your, his and our. Plus the first describing words, good and little, and the everyday nouns man, time and thing.
Ten more of the most common verbs: come, look, think, take, make, tell, give, need and find, plus out (go out, look out).
Read a story
Your first graded reader. Tom has a little thing for Ana, but what is it? Every word is one you have just met.
Pronunciation
The two th's, the schwa, and ship against sheep. The sounds learners fight longest, with the mouth shown from the inside.
Who, where, when, why and how, and the words that answer them: here, there, then, a man, something.
The helper verbs can, could, will and would, plus let, just, right, too, much and mean.
The small words for where and how: on, at, from, by, up, back, about, as and way.
All seven subject pronouns in one place: I, you, he, she, it, we and they. Who speaks, who listens, and who the sentence is about.
The four pointing words as one small table: this and that for one thing, these and those for many, near or far.
A dozen fixed everyday phrases - hello, thank you, my name is - so you can start a real conversation on day one.
Whose is it? My, your, his, her, its, our and their, and the little 's that says Tom's house.
The ten digits, zero to nine. Every phone number, price and time is built from these. Watch the th in three and the v in five and seven.
Ten to nineteen. Eleven and twelve are words of their own; the rest end in -teen. Say the -teen strongly, or thirteen sounds like thirty.
The tens, twenty to ninety, and a hundred. Every number between is a ten plus a digit: twenty-one, forty-five. Watch the spelling of forty: no u.
Build any number from the words you know: twenty-one, a hundred and five, two thousand. Plus thirteen or thirty, and why it is never two hundreds.
Arcade review
Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.
