All topics

English for finding groceries, paying, and solving checkout problems.

At a Café

English for ordering food and drinks, paying, and making special requests.

At the Pharmacy

English for symptoms, prescriptions, dosage, and the safe use of medicines.

At the Bank

English for accounts, cards, transfers, fees, and banking security.

At the Post Office

English for letters, parcels, tracking, customs forms, and delivery.

Education

At School

82 questions

English for the school day, lessons, assessment, support, and rules.

At University

English for campus life, course structure, student services, and university procedures.

Work

Job Interview

English for presenting experience, answering questions, and discussing an offer.

At the Office

English for tasks, meetings, documents, and everyday teamwork.

Remote Work

English for video meetings, asynchronous collaboration, time zones, and security.

Negotiations

English for proposals, concessions, mutual benefit, and documenting agreements.

Health and Sport

At the Gym

84 questions

English for equipment, exercises, trainer conversations, technique, and etiquette.

At the Doctor

English for booking a visit, describing symptoms, examinations, tests, and treatment.

Communication

Small Talk

English for introductions, safe topics, keeping a light conversation going, and ending it politely.

Phone Calls

English for everyday and work calls, connection problems, and safe communication by phone.

Messaging Apps

English for messages, group chats, privacy settings, and safely sharing files.

Conflicts and Misunderstandings

English for clarifying intentions, respectful disagreement, setting boundaries, and constructive conflict resolution.

A1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 1

Words 1 to 100. The absolute essentials: pronouns, basic verbs, numbers, and the glue words that hold every sentence together.

A1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 2

Words 101 to 200. Everyday actions and descriptions: "want," "think," "old," "new," "again": the words that bring sentences to life.

A1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 3

Words 201 to 300. The world around you: "house," "water," "city," "money": naming the things that matter in daily life.

A1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 4

Words 301 to 400. Connecting ideas: "because," "however," "during": plus more verbs for daily routines.

A1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 5

Words 401 to 500. Social vocabulary: feelings, relationships, and the words you need to talk about people and experiences.

A1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 6

Words 501 to 600. The wider world: nature, weather, health, and basic professional vocabulary.

A1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 7

Words 601 to 700. Abstract concepts: "idea," "reason," "situation": thinking and expressing opinions in English.

A1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 8

82 questions

Words 701 to 782. The final stretch: less common but essential words that complete your A1 foundation.

Basic English Sentence Structure

44 questions

In English the word order is the grammar: move the words and the meaning moves too.

Verb Be: Am, Is, Are

Ukrainian says "She a doctor" with no verb at all. English cannot manage without one.

Subject and Object Pronouns

The form of a pronoun depends not on the person but on its place in the sentence.

Possessive Adjectives, Pronouns, and ’s

Ukrainian has one word for "mine". English has two, and the choice depends on what follows.

Singular and Plural Nouns

There is one rule: add an s. All the difficulty sits in a dozen words you use every day.

Articles a, an and the

An article is what English says instead of "some" and "that same one".

Demonstratives this, that, these and those

Four words that point: what is near, what is far, one thing or several.

There is and there are

The way to say something exists when the listener does not know it yet. There here does not mean "over there".

Have got

The British way of saying "I have". The confusion starts only in the question.

Present Simple

A tense that is not about "now": it is about habits, timetables and what is true in general.

Present Continuous

An action you can see right now, and a temporary situation around this week.

Questions and Word Order

In an English question something always moves to the front. The whole trick is knowing what.

Can and Imperatives

A word that never changes: it needs no s, no to and no do.

Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Ukrainian counts advice happily. English does not count it at all.

Some, Any, Much and Many

Some or any is decided by the sentence; much or many is decided by the noun.

Basic Comparisons

43 questions

To compare, a tail is added to the adjective. Two steps: more than one, and more than all.

A2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 1

Words 1 to 100. Stepping up: phrasal verbs, opinions, and everyday interactions beyond the basics.

A2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 2

Words 101 to 200. Travel, shopping, and making plans: vocabulary for an independent life in English.

A2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 3

Words 201 to 300. Describing experiences: past events, future plans, and how things make you feel.

A2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 4

Words 301 to 400. Work, education, and daily routines: the vocabulary of a structured life.

A2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 5

Words 401 to 500. Health, food, and lifestyle: taking care of yourself in English.

A2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 6

Words 501 to 600. Comparing, explaining, and persuading: building more sophisticated sentences.

A2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 7

Words 601 to 700. Culture, media, and technology: engaging with the modern world of English.

A2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 8

103 questions

Words 701 to 803. The final A2 push: nuanced vocabulary that prepares you for the B1 leap.

Present Simple and Present Continuous

35 questions

The difference between what you do in general and what you are doing right now.

Past Simple: the Verb Be

35 questions

The shortest way to say where you were and how it went: was, were, and why did stays out.

Past Simple: Regular Verbs

The tense you tell your stories in: the ed ending, its three sounds, and did in questions.

Irregular Verbs

Three forms of the most common verbs, and a simple rule for which one you need.

Past Continuous

The tense that says not what happened, but what was already going on at that moment.

When and While in Past Events

34 questions

Two words that are one word in Ukrainian, but pull different tenses in English.

Future with Be Going To

34 questions

The future you can already see in the present: either you have decided, or the signs are there.

Future with Will

31 questions

A decision made this second, a promise, an offer, and a prediction you think rather than see.

Present Continuous for Arrangements

39 questions

A present tense about tomorrow: the event is already in the calendar, with a time and people.

Few, Little, a Few, and a Little

A single letter a turns "we still have time" into "we are out of time".

Too and Enough

Too goes before the word, enough goes after it, and that is where half the sentences break.

Comparatives and As ... As

32 questions

Three ways to compare two things: more, less, and exactly the same.

Present Perfect

38 questions

A past action with a present result: not about when it happened, but about what you have now.

Present Perfect and Past Simple

36 questions

The Perfect opens the subject, the Past Simple tells the details. The border runs along the word "when".

Must, Have To, and Should

In the positive, must and have to are near twins; in the negative they mean opposite things.

Permission and Possibility: May, Might, Could

Three words for a guess and for a request: "it may rain" and "may I use your phone".

Infinitive and the -ing Form

29 questions

You do not choose the form of the second verb: the word in front of it does.

Zero and First Conditionals

36 questions

There is no future after if: will lives only in the second half of the sentence.

Defining Clauses with Who, Which, and That

33 questions

Three words that turn "some man" into "the one who fixed our roof".

B1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 1

Words 1 to 100. The intermediate leap begins: abstract thinking, opinions, and professional vocabulary.

B1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 2

Words 101 to 200. Debate and discussion: agreeing, disagreeing, and expressing complex opinions.

B1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 3

Words 201 to 300. Academic and formal English: reports, presentations, and structured arguments.

B1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 4

Words 301 to 400. Idioms, collocations, and the vocabulary that makes your English sound natural.

B1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 5

Words 401 to 500. Society, politics, and global issues: engaging with the world in English.

B1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 6

Words 501 to 600. Science, technology, and specialized vocabulary for the modern world.

B1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 7

90 questions

Words 601 to 690. The final B1 words: completing your intermediate foundation with precision vocabulary.

Choosing Tenses in Connected Text

In connected text the tense is chosen for the event, not for the sentence.

Narrative Tenses

A story rests on three tenses: one paints the scene, one moves it, one explains the cause.

Present Perfect Continuous

A form that talks not about the result but about how long it took.

Used to and Would for Past Habits

Two structures for past habits. One handles states, the other does not.

Be Used to and Get Used to

One little to, and here it is a preposition. That is why an ing follows, not a base verb.

Ways of Expressing the Future

English has no future tense. It has four forms, and each says something different about you.

Second Conditional

The past form after if marks not past time but distance from reality.

Modals of Deduction

The same words as for permission, but here they measure how sure you are.

Passive Voice in Common Tenses

A way to put what happened first, when the doer is unknown or beside the point.

Reported Speech: Statements

When you report somebody's words, the tense inside them takes a step back.

Reported Speech: Questions and Requests

A reported question stops being a question: do disappears and the word order goes back to normal.

Non-defining Relative Clauses

Two commas change not the intonation but the meaning: they decide how many brothers you have.

Gerunds and Infinitives after Verbs

The first verb dictates the form of the second. And in a few cases that form changes the whole meaning.

Indirect Questions

Politeness costs one move here: inside the question the word order becomes that of a statement.

Question Tags

A little tail at the end of a sentence that turns a statement into a request for agreement.

Articles and Determiners

An article answers one question: does the listener know which one you mean.

Conjunctions and Logical Links

Because and therefore mean the same, yet they live in different places and want different punctuation.

B2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 1

Words 1 to 100. Advanced intermediate begins: sophisticated vocabulary for complex ideas and formal contexts.

B2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 2

Words 101 to 200. Academic English: critical thinking, analysis, and the language of research.

B2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 3

Words 201 to 300. Business and professional English: negotiations, strategy, and corporate communication.

B2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 4

Words 301 to 400. Literature, arts, and cultural commentary: English for the intellectually curious.

B2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 5

Words 401 to 500. Law, politics, and social systems: understanding how societies where English is spoken work.

B2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 6

Words 501 to 600. Science, medicine, and environment: the vocabulary of discussion grounded in evidence.

B2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 7

Words 601 to 700. Emotions, psychology, and human behavior: describing the inner world with precision.

B2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 8

Words 701 to 800. Advanced collocations and idiomatic expressions that native speakers use daily.

B2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 9

Words 801 to 900. Philosophy, ethics, and abstract reasoning: thinking deeply in English.

B2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 10

Words 901 to 1000. Media, journalism, and persuasion: understanding and creating compelling arguments.

B2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 11

Words 1001 to 1100. History, geography, and global awareness: the vocabulary of an educated worldview.

B2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 12

Words 1101 to 1200. Technology, innovation, and the digital world: staying current in English.

B2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 13

98 questions

Words 1201 to 1298. The final B2 stretch: rare but powerful words that complete your advanced intermediate mastery.

The Perfect Tense System

The perfect is not a tense but a backward look. Only the point you look from changes.

Future Continuous and Future Perfect

Two forms that look at the future from inside it: one through the window of a process, one from past the finish.

Third Conditional

The structure people use for regret, relief and going over what went wrong.

Mixed Conditionals

A condition from one time, a consequence from another. That is how people actually talk about life.

Wish, If Only, and Unreal Past

After wish a past form marks not past time but dissatisfaction with how things are.

Modal Verbs about the Past

A modal plus have plus the third form. One structure for judging everything in the past.

Extended Uses of the Passive Voice

The passive can do everything the active can. It all comes down to the chain of be before the third form.

Have and Get Something Done

A way to say the work was not done by you. And the same form says something was done to you.

Reporting Verbs and Their Patterns

One precise verb reports both the words and the intention. But each of them demands a frame of its own.

Passive Reporting Structures

The structure of news and academic writing: to say that people think so, and name nobody.

Complex Relative Clauses

Two commas, one preposition and the word whose. That is what precision in a complex sentence is built from.

Reduced Relative Constructions

Drop the who and the form of be, and the sentence loses two words and nothing else.

Participle Clauses

An opening phrase always belongs to the subject of the main clause. Forget that and nonsense follows.

Gerunds and Infinitives with Meaning Changes

The to form looks forward, the ing form looks back. Every meaning pair grows from that.

Noun Clauses

A whole clause can be slotted inside another sentence and handled exactly like a noun.

Advanced Embedded Questions

Do you know takes a yes or a no. Do you think no longer allows either.

Inversion after Negative Adverbials

Front a negative and the sentence starts behaving like a question while staying a statement.

Emphasis Constructions

The fact stays the same and the emphasis moves. To do that, English cuts the sentence in two.

Ellipsis and Substitution

English hates repetition. Instead of the second verb, only the auxiliary remains.

C1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 1

Words 1 to 100. Society, law, and academic language for precise arguments.

C1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 2

Words 101 to 200. Systems, economics, technology, and modern human behaviour.

C1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 3

Words 201 to 300. Arguments, rules, compromise, and logical relationships.

C1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 4

Words 301 to 400. Crises, decisions, consequences, and critical analysis.

C1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 5

Words 401 to 500. Processes, power, efficiency, and the scale of change.

C1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 6

Words 501 to 600. Human experience, conflict, heritage, and humanitarian issues.

C1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 7

Words 601 to 700. Law, institutions, interaction, and social justice.

C1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 8

Words 701 to 800. Governance, methodology, culture, and systemic change.

C1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 9

Words 801 to 900. Public life, ideas, precedent, prejudice, and privilege.

C1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 10

Words 901 to 1000. Politics, economics, reform, and persuasive rhetoric.

C1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 11

Words 1001 to 1100. Evaluation, simulation, stability, and strategic decisions.

C1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 12

Words 1101 to 1200. Academic conclusions, complex processes, and transparency.

C1 Frequency Dictionary. Part 13

77 questions

Words 1201 to 1277. Hidden causes, feasibility, and confident conclusions.

Nuances of Tense and Aspect

At this level a tense is chosen not by a rule but by where you are looking at the event from.

Complex Modality and Degrees of Certainty

Modality is not a list of words but a scale. And on it, where your certainty came from matters.

Alternative Conditional Constructions

A condition can be expressed without if, and then it starts meaning something slightly different.

Inversion and Fronting

English word order carries not grammar but attention: what is known comes first, what matters comes last.

Cleft and Pseudo-cleft Sentences

A sentence is cut in two so that one half becomes given and the other lands under the spotlight.

Reduced and Verbless Subordinate Constructions

You can compress a clause as long as the reader can restore who is doing what.

Nominalisation

An action can be turned into a thing. The text grows denser, and the doer disappears.

Complex Noun Phrases

A long phrase hangs on its head noun. Find it, and everything else falls into place.

Agreement in Complex Constructions

The verb agrees with the head of the subject, not with whatever stands closest to it.

Pronoun Reference and Textual Linking

A pronoun costs one word; an ambiguous pronoun costs the reader a whole paragraph.

Hedging and Distancing

Hedging is not timidity but precision: you claim exactly as much as you can support.

Grammar of Formal and Academic Style

Formality is not a stock of long words but precise links and complete structures.

Grammar of Textual Cohesion

A text holds together not through connectors but because each sentence ends where the next begins.

C2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 1

Words 1 to 100. The pinnacle begins: literary, academic, and rare words that define true mastery.

C2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 2

Words 101 to 200. Rare precision: words that express exactly the shade of meaning you need.

C2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 3

Words 201 to 300. Literary and archaic vocabulary: understanding English across centuries of writing.

C2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 4

Words 301 to 400. Academic and scientific terminology: the language of experts and researchers.

C2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 5

Words 401 to 500. Legal, diplomatic, and bureaucratic English: power expressed through vocabulary.

C2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 6

Words 501 to 600. Rhetoric, philosophy, and the art of persuasion at the highest level.

C2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 7

Words 601 to 700. Cultural literacy: allusions, references, and words every educated speaker knows.

C2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 8

Words 701 to 800. Synonyms of common words that add elegance and variety to your expression.

C2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 9

Words 801 to 900. Technical and specialized vocabulary for many fields across multiple fields.

C2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 10

Words 901 to 1000. Emotional and psychological vocabulary: the full spectrum of human experience.

C2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 11

Words 1001 to 1100. Rare but beautiful: words that exist because sometimes ordinary words are not enough.

C2 Frequency Dictionary. Part 12

69 questions

Words 1101 to 1169. The final 69 words: your C2 crown. Completing this means true English mastery.

Fine Distinctions in Tense and Aspect

Aspect here is no longer about time. It is about how you present an event and what you want from the reader.

Modality, Evidentiality, and Authorial Stance

Every claim carries three things: how sure you are, how you know, and who is answerable for it.

Marked Word Order and Information Focus

Word order answers a question the reader never asked aloud. Change the order and you change the question.

Natural Ellipsis and Substitution

An omission is justified exactly as long as what is missing restores in one way only.

Grammatical Ambiguity

An ambiguous sentence breaks no rule at all. That is exactly why its author never notices it.

Editing Complex Sentences

Editing a complex sentence means clarifying its structure without inventing relations it never had.

Transforming Formal Text into Conversation

A conversational version does not simplify the content. It moves it into grammar built for a listener.

Transforming Conversation into Academic Prose

An academic version does not add weight. It adds precision where speech relied on context.

Concision, Precision, and Naturalness

The shortest version is rarely the best. The best is the one that costs the reader least effort.

General Knowledge

Months of the Year

33 questions

Learn the order of months, their names and fun facts about each month of the year.

US State Capitals

50 questions

Capitals of all 50 US states — test how many you know.

Ukrainian Alphabet

75 questions

Ukrainian alphabet: 33 letters, their order and unique features.

World Country Capitals

194 questions

195 countries across 6 continents — every capital from Europe to Oceania.

Flags of the World

194 questions

194 countries across 6 continents. Recognise each flag and learn what it means.

Trivia

2328 questions

~3,400 short questions about curious facts from science, history, geography, art, sports, and culture.

History

The National Liberation War of Bohdan Khmelnytsky

The Cossack Revolution of 1648–1657, led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky

The Zaporozhian Sich

1552—1775: Vyshnevetsky's Khortytsia Sich, the Cossack uprisings, Sahaidachny at Khotyn, Sirko, Mazepa and Poltava, Kalnyshevsky and the Sich's destruction by Catherine II.

The UPA and the Second World War

1929—1956: the OUN and Bandera, the Act of 30 June 1941, the formation of the UPA, Volhynia, Shukhevych, Hurby, Operation Vistula, Shukhevych's death in 1950, Kuk's arrest in 1954.

Kyivan Rus'

862—1240: from Askold's raid on Constantinople to the fall of Kyiv to Batu Khan; Oleh, Olha, Volodymyr the Great, Yaroslav the Wise, the Tale of Igor's Campaign, the Mongol invasion.

The Principality of Galicia-Volhynia

1199—1349: the direct successor of Kyivan Rus' in Ukrainian lands; Roman the Great, King Danylo, Lviv, Yuri I "King of Rus'", the fall in 1349.

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania

1340—1569: Ukrainian lands under Lithuania; Liubartas, the Battle of Blue Waters, Grunwald, the Olelkovych princes, Konstanty Ostrogski, the Union of Lublin.

Cold War

USA vs USSR: 44 years of ideology, espionage and the nuclear arms race (1947–1991).

World War I

A global conflict of 1914–1918 that destroyed four empires and reshaped the world order.

World War II

The global conflict of 1939—1945: six years, ~70 million dead, the dawn of the nuclear age, the end of European colonial empires.

The French Revolution

The event that destroyed the old regime in Europe: 1789—1799 — the Bastille, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the king's execution, the guillotine, and the rise of Napoleon.

The Napoleonic Wars

The fifteen years that redrew Europe: 1799—1815 — Marengo, Austerlitz, the Civil Code, Borodino, Leipzig, Waterloo, Saint Helena.

Alexander the Great

Thirteen years that changed the world: 336—323 BC — the Granicus, Issus, Gaugamela, Tyre, Alexandria, the Hydaspes, death at Babylon at age 32.

The Crusades

Two hundred years of religious war between West and East: 1095—1291 — Clermont, Antioch, Jerusalem, Hattin, Saladin and Richard, the sack of Constantinople, the fall of Acre.

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

The largest contiguous empire in history: 1206—1260 — from Temüjin's unification of the steppe to the Kalka, Kyiv, Baghdad and Ain Jalut.

The American Civil War

The war that ended slavery: 1861—1865 — Sumter, Antietam, the Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, Appomattox, Lincoln's assassination.

The Age of Discovery

The era that made the world global: 1419—1543 — Sagres, the Cape of Good Hope, Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Magellan, the conquest of the Aztecs and Incas.

The Russian Revolution and Civil War

1917—1922: the February and October revolutions, Brest-Litovsk, the Red Terror, the Ukrainian People's Republic and Makhno, Kronstadt, the founding of the USSR.

The Black Death