Basic English words
From greetings and numbers to the phrases that save you. Everything is sorted into themes, so start wherever you like. Free, no sign-up.
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Before you go
You will use these from day one. Reading them before you fly changes the first week.
Every day
Useful today, and the payoff is immediate.
It will come, sooner or later
Rare, but there is no time to look things up when they happen. Worth reading first.
11,246English words, all free
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Level bands A1-B2 are based on The CEFR-J Wordlist Version 1.6, compiled by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Anything above B2 is our own selection and is not mapped to CEFR.
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