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47 free language classes for adults (18+) on Wunder — short, fact-checked courses and lessons with narration and a quiz. Filter by age — each link is its own page, not a JavaScript toggle.
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How to Find an Author's Purpose
Learn to separate a text's topic from its purpose, infer its audience, and support your reading with clues from genre, language, structure, and tone.
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A Christmas Carol: Ghosts, Guilt, and Change
Read Dickens?s Christmas ghost story as a compact argument about attention, responsibility, and changed conduct.
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How to close-read a literary passage
Move from precise textual observation to defensible interpretation in an exam-ready close reading.
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How to analyze a rhetorical argument
Read audience, purpose, credibility, emotion, reasoning, structure, and fallacies in persuasive texts.
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How to frame a research question
Turn a broad assignment into a focused, sourceable question with measurable concepts, scope, and a feasible plan.
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How to write a thesis-driven essay
Build a defensible thesis, organize evidence, answer counterclaims, and revise an academic argument.
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How to annotate a scholarly article
A practical method for turning a scholarly article into evidence you can evaluate and use in an essay.
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The Present Perfect Tense
'He went out' and 'he has gone out' both talk about the past — but only one of them tells you he's still out right now. The present perfect is the tense with one foot in the past and one foot in the p
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All About Nouns
You already use nouns in every sentence — this course shows you how much they can really do. Go beyond 'a noun is a naming word' to meet abstract nouns like courage that you can't touch, sort out the
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Comparatives and Superlatives
Big, bigger, biggest — comparison words come in three neat steps. Learn which form to reach for every time: the two-thing comparative, the group-topping superlative, the -er/-est and more/most toolkit
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Fronted Adverbials
Later that day, everything changed! Learn to open sentences with phrases like 'Later that day' or 'In the park' — and punctuate them with a comma. One simple move that makes your writing sound varied
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Past, Present, and Future Tense
A verb is a little time machine: the same action word changes shape to tell you when — I walked, I walk, I will walk. Master the simple past, present, and future, meet the rule-breaking irregular verb
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Standard English Verbs
"We was" or "we were"? "I done it" or "I did it"? The way people speak at home is real, rule-following language — nothing wrong with it. But schools, tests, and formal writing expect one particular se
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Agreement and Word Order
You would never say 'the wooden big table' — your ear already knows. This course makes English's quiet rules visible: subjects that match their verbs, pronouns that match what they stand for, and adje
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Brackets and Dashes for Extra Information
Some information is not the main point — it is a helpful aside the sentence could live without. Learn the lift-out test for spotting it, then three tools for tucking it in: brackets to whisper, dashes
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Building Better Sentences
Turn 'the cat' into 'the fluffy black cat' and learn to build sentences that really say something. You'll meet the grammar words — noun, verb, adjective — sort naming words from doing words, make your
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Using Pronouns
Say a name too many times and your writing starts to sound funny: 'The dog ran. The dog barked. The dog wagged the dog's tail.' Pronouns are little helper words like he, she, it, and they that stand i
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Verb Tenses and Irregular Words
Verbs are time-travel words — they change shape to tell when something happens. Get present and past under control, tame the tricky rule-breakers (it's went, not goed), and meet plural rebels like mic
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Clauses and Conjunctions
Big, interesting sentences are really little ideas joined together. Learn what a clause is (one whole idea), meet the joining words called conjunctions — and, but, because, when — and discover how pro
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Commas in Lists
A comma is a tiny mark that does a big job. Pop little commas between the things in a list, and a jumble of words like 'apples bananas oranges' turns into 'apples, bananas, and oranges' — something an
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Adjectives vs. Adverbs
An adjective dresses up a thing (the slow dog). An adverb usually dresses up an action (the dog walks slowly). One question tells you which word you need.
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Choosing A or An
Should you say 'a apple' or 'an apple'? 'A hour' or 'an hour'? These two tiny words trip up almost everyone — until you learn the one simple secret. It isn't about the letter a word begins with. It's
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Words for Time, Place, and Cause
Little words like because, after, then, and under are the glue that holds ideas together. Meet the connecting words that tell your reader WHEN, WHERE, and WHY things happen — and learn to snap two lon
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Choosing Clear Pronouns
Little words like she, it, and they are helpers — they save you from saying a name over and over. But a helper word only works if your reader knows exactly who it points to. Say "she" when two girls a
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Punctuating Dialogue
How do you show a reader the exact words a character says out loud? Learn to punctuate dialogue step by step — the quotation marks that box the spoken words, reporting clauses like 'said Tom', the joi
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Words, Spaces, and Sentences
The very first rules of writing, made friendly. Learn the names of letters and the little marks that help us read, discover why spaces keep words apart, and meet the question words who, what, and wher
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Nouns and Verbs
Every sentence needs two special helpers: naming words and doing words. Meet nouns and verbs, put them together to make sentences, and learn the magic trick of turning one cat into two cats and one wi
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When to Use Capital Letters
Learn exactly which words get a capital letter — the first word of a sentence, names of people and places, the days of the week, and the special word I. With warm pictures and games, you'll capitalize
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Joining Sentences with And
Meet 'and', the little word that joins ideas together. Turn two bumpy sentences like 'We went to the park. We played.' into one smooth sentence — 'We went to the park and we played' — and learn when t
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Using Prepositions
Meet the little words that tell where and which way — in, on, under, to, from — and use them to say exactly where everything is.
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The Four Types of Sentences
Sentences come in four kinds — one to tell, one to ask, one to shout with feeling, and one to tell someone what to do. Learn all four, and learn to give each one its capital letter to start and just t
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Using Apostrophes
The apostrophe is a tiny mark with just two jobs: squeezing words together (don't) and showing that something belongs to someone (Sam's bag). Learn to tell them apart and you'll always know which one
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The, A, This, and That
Learn the little words that go in front of a noun — a, an, the, this, that, these, and those — so your sentences point to exactly the thing you mean.
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Reading for Meaning
Reading is not just saying the words out loud — it is making meaning in your head. In this gentle first lesson you'll learn the real secret good readers know: the magic happens in your mind. You'll pi
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Checking You Understand What You Read
Learn to catch the moment when you've read the words but missed the meaning — the foggy 'huh?' — and the fix-it moves that bring understanding back. A habit that makes every book stick.
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Why Authors Choose Their Words
Notice how authors pick their words, and on purpose, to make you feel things. You'll start reading like someone who can see the writer's choices behind the page.
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What's Stated and What's Inferred
Every time you read, you keep two piles: what the words actually SAY, and what you figured out in your own head. Learn to tell them apart — it's the secret that turns you into a sharp, honest reader.
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Words You Only Half-Know
Some words you truly own. Others you only half-know — and those are sneaky. Learn to spot your shaky words, use clues and word parts to figure them out, and lock in the ones you're unsure about so the
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Reviewing Your Own Writing
The best writers aren't the ones who get it perfect the first time — they're the ones who reread their own work and make it better. In this course you'll learn to look at your writing the way a reader
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Reflecting on Your Language
You've already spoken millions of words — mostly on autopilot. Step back and watch yourself as a language user: how you switch voices for different people, how speaking differs from writing, and where
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Building Sentences
Every big idea starts as a sentence. Learn the secret that turns a pile of words into a real sentence — a naming part and a doing part — and become a word builder.
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Sign Language Basics (ASL)
A factual first course in American Sign Language: what ASL is as a full language, fingerspelling, first signs, numbers, grammar, and Deaf culture and history.
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Spanish for Beginners
A warm, practical first course in Spanish: pronunciation, greetings, the essential verbs, ordering food, getting around, and how gender and articles actually work.
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The Art of Public Speaking
Persuade, connect, and calm the nerves using Aristotle's playbook.
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The Art of Persuasion
How ancient rhetoric still wins arguments, votes, and hearts today.
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Where Words Come From
Every word carries a hidden history. Learn to uncover it.
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Music Theory for Adults
Scales, chords, and the circle of fifths, the grammar behind every song.
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