Language courses

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.

Read Dickens?s Christmas ghost story as a compact argument about attention, responsibility, and changed conduct.

A dog is one word. Your mouth makes three sounds. Learn to pull words apart so you can write them.

Learn when a colon opens a list, when commas are enough, and when semicolons keep crowded items from crashing.

Learn why because and people keep an odd letter team, how families share one stranger, and how to mark it.

Year 6 puts the smash first or the smasher. Grade 8 adds five moods, then tells you not to change coats mid-sentence.

The tortoise crossed. That is what happened. The race is not always to the swift is what it meant.

Find the front, follow the road on the page, and notice that print — not the picture — is doing the talking.

Open past the cover. Find the title page, the two names on it, and the maps a book hides in the front and the back.

Home talk has rules. Learn the public English a stranger on the page can share.

A sentence is how many complete thoughts you hired. Learn simple, compound, and complex — and the hanger-on that cannot walk out alone.

A comma cannot hold two complete thoughts. Learn the semicolon hinge, the colon drumroll, and the dash that breaks in.

One comma turns a name into a tap on the shoulder. Learn the yes, no, and name marks fifth grade actually tests.

Learn the comma jobs that keep lists, sentences, dates, and quotes from saying the wrong thing.

Learn the three -ing tenses that keep a verb in motion: I am walking, I was walking, I will be walking.

Move from precise textual observation to defensible interpretation in an exam-ready close reading.

Read audience, purpose, credibility, emotion, reasoning, structure, and fallacies in persuasive texts.

Turn a broad assignment into a focused, sourceable question with measurable concepts, scope, and a feasible plan.

Build a defensible thesis, organize evidence, answer counterclaims, and revise an academic argument.

A practical method for turning a scholarly article into evidence you can evaluate and use in an essay.

'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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Meet the little words that tell where and which way — in, on, under, to, from — and use them to say exactly where everything is.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Learn the secret engine inside every great story and write your own tales that grab readers and never let go.

Become a word detective and discover the surprising, true stories behind everyday words.

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.

Hola, colors, ten fingers, animals, family, and the words you need at the table.

A warm, practical first course in Spanish: pronunciation, greetings, the essential verbs, ordering food, getting around, and how gender and articles actually work.

Persuade, connect, and calm the nerves using Aristotle's playbook.

How ancient rhetoric still wins arguments, votes, and hearts today.

Every word carries a hidden history. Learn to uncover it.

Scales, chords, and the circle of fifths, the grammar behind every song.

Argue with logic, evidence, and confidence, not just volume.

Crack the code behind melody, harmony, and the circle of fifths.

Beat the nerves and speak so people actually listen.

Crack open any poem with tools for meter, imagery, and meaning.

Meet the playwright who reshaped the English language and stage.

The rules that make your writing clear and correct.

Turn your ideas into clear, persuasive, well-built essays.

Big and small, up and down, and more opposite pairs.

Meet the letters and the sounds they make.

Who is in a family? Let's meet all kinds of families!

Kind words and friendly ways make everyone feel good!

Big and small, up and down - discover the world of opposites!

Every letter makes a sound - let's listen and learn to read!

Meet the ABCs and the 26 letters that build every word!

Listen! So many fun sounds all around us.

Happy, sad, and more — let's learn all about feelings!

Learn how bath time keeps skin clean and happy