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In general, Puzzle English specializes in developing listening comprehension skills through audio exercises, videos, TV series. But for listening, you need, of course, some kind of minimum vocabulary.
You will be given a list of 96 words and asked to check the box which you know. I advise you to mark only those words that you recognize instantly and without hesitation. There is no need to choose or write the correct answer - they take their word for it, but from time to time there is a check of honesty - you need to choose the correct option from the four proposed to confirm that you are not cheating on the virtual teacher.
At the end, you will learn not only the vocabulary, but also the honesty index - the program assesses how honest you were with it. If you re-pass the test, the words in the assignment will be different.
I passed the test for fun 3 times. The first and second results were about 11-12 thousand words each, and the third time I specifically answered all the questions correctly, peeping into the dictionary, and I was given as much as 29 248 words and a 94% honesty index (apparently, the mustachioed uncle suspected something was wrong) ... 29,000 is, of course, an unrealistic figure, it is believed that an average native speaker knows about 20,000 words, but if you do not cheat and mark only those words that you recognize without hesitation, then the result is quite true. The next two tests confirmed this.
LinguaLeo word knowledge test
Of course, we must not forget that vocabulary is only one of the components of language proficiency. Even simple text will not be understandable if you have no idea about grammar.
P. S .: How to determine what level of English you have
If you are wondering what is your level of knowledge in English , it is not enough to measure vocabulary and pass the grammar test, you need to comprehensively assess speech skills (reading, listening, writing and speaking). For more information on how to find out your level of English, see.
Friends! I am not currently tutoring, but if you need a teacher, I recommend this wonderful site - there are native (and non-native) language teachers for all occasions and for any pocket 🙂 I myself went through more than 80 lessons with the teachers I found there!
Assessment of the number of learned and memorized words of a foreign language is primarily interesting for understanding how far a person has advanced in the "passive" perception of information: texts, speech, films, etc. I suggest that you familiarize yourself with several methods that I used, found on the net and "self-made". Below are a couple of vocabulary tests, a technique for finding important words that have not yet caught on in the brain, some reasoning and some links.
Online tests
Of the many word count tests, I liked two. A couple of years ago I came across a fairly simple Test Your Vocabulary. Going through three screens with words, you tick off those that (you think) you know, and then you get an estimate of the total number of words learned. Many of my acquaintances complained about its inadequacy - they received less quantity than "the one about which I know for sure that he knows worse." But during the passage, there may be a mistake of a different kind - it seems that you know the word, but in fact you have already forgotten. They say that the hand itself stretches to put a tick next to a word that seems vaguely familiar, so you can subconsciously overestimate your overall assessment.You know at least 10,500 English word families!
What do my results mean?
In general, there is no minimum vocabulary size. Language ability is related to vocabulary size, so the more words you know, the more you will be able to understand. However, if you want to set a learning goal, Paul Nation's (2006) research suggests that the following sizes might be useful:
How large a vocabulary is needed for reading and listening?
Skill Size estimate Notes
Reading 8,000 - 9,000
word families Nation (2006)
Listening 6,000 - 7,000
word families Nation (2006)
Native speaker 20,000
word families Goulden, Nation, & Read (1990)
Zechmeister, Chronis, Cull, D'Anna, & Healy (1995)
What is a word family?
There are many different forms of a word, so this test measures your knowledge of the most basic form of a word and assumes that you can recognize the other forms. For example, nation, a noun, can also be an adjective (national), a verb (nationalize), or an adverb (nationally). There are also forms which can be made with an affix such as de- or -ing which also modify the way that the word is used or adds to the basic meaning. For a test of receptive vocabulary knowledge such as this one, word families are considered to be the most accurate way of counting words.
Frequency dictionaries
After registering at www.wordfrequency.info, you can download the excelnik of the American English frequency dictionary. There is also a text version.Like this:
Rank Word Part of speech Frequency Dispersion
1 the - a 22038615 0.98
2 be - v 12545825 0.97
3 and - c 10741073 0.99
4 of - i 10343885 0.97
5 a - a 10144200 0.98
6 in - i 6996437 0.98
7 to - t 6332195 0.98
8 have - v 4303955 0.97
…
…
4996 immigrant - j 0.97
4997 kid - v 5094 0.92
4998 middle-class - j 5025 0.93
4999 apology - n 4972 0.94
5000 till - i 5079 0.92
The file contains 5000 English words sorted by frequency of occurrence. The frequency was counted on a huge heterogeneous array english texts... Recently, I saw a friend of mine looking for unknown words while checking his vocabulary. After looking through the first 500, I found no unknowns. He showed the extract on his smartphone - about a dozen words from the second thousand (that is, from 1000 to 2000) and about 20 words from the third. It's funny that, walking down the list, you come across sequences of words that are successfully added to phrases or even short sentences. The logic is very simple - if the word is very common in statistics, and you do not know it, then it is better to learn and see examples of use.
After reading the list of words unknown to him (already with translation), I saw the following thing. I knew about 50-60% of these unknown words to him, but some of the meanings of the translations recorded there were unknown to me, there were several words completely unknown to me.
In general, the site is trying to be commercial, they sell lists of more than 5000 in length, but this is not so interesting anymore.
So far, this friend of mine is writing a program with a user-friendly interface for searching for unknown words - for educational purposes. I suggested that he use not this list for a global assessment, but a thinned one: every seventh word from the total list of 60,000 words is given. In fact, even watching the first couple of thousand drives you into despondency, not everyone will get to 5000. Although I do not presume to say 100%, the thinned dictionary will surely show at least one word from the "family", and the time will be spent, respectively, 7 or 10 times less (depending on the frequency of decimation).
By the way, such frequency dictionaries of the Russian language contain about 160 thousand words, including abbreviations and abbreviations. There are several different, similar "corpora" of English words from different organizations.
I'm interested in another question: how accurate are the tests that give an estimate of the number of words you know? It is possible that this could be determined just by checking the frequency dictionary, as well as comparing the list of selected unknown words - their number and occurrence in different "families".
There are general laws of remembering and forgetting. One of the main things: if a person has learned something and does not repeat, does not use, the information is forgotten exponentially from time to time. On the other hand, a few repetitions lengthens, stretches the falling exponent to an acceptable level. I was very surprised when an acquaintance who worked as a tutor for schoolchildren said that there is a sequence of time intervals for deep memorization: say, after 20 minutes, then after 8 hours, another day, etc., after which the information is firmly planted in the brain ... That is, the brain provides a statistically maximum level of the excitation signal when it encounters this information.
Ebbinghaus Curve, from Wikipedia.
How I learned words at the institute.
Without taking into account the standard course, where the requirements for the first three years were quite strict, I tried to read fiction. The first big book was Conan Doyle's old Soviet edition, The Lost World. I don't know how much it was adapted, but there was an abundance of Victorian words and expressions in the text, and this greatly delayed progress towards the end ... I quickly got tired of every new word. Tablets were not common then, pocket electronic translators were an expensive rarity, so I worked out a paper system for myself. In a thick 96-sheet notebook, the spread was divided into 6 columns. Now I tried to find a notebook - I got lost. We'll have to describe in words. Divided the alphabet into groups of letters, for example - a..d, e..f, g..j, k..n, o..q, r..t, u..w, x..z. Approximately, by eye, I estimated the statistical percentage of words that begin with these letters and divided the columns in the spread into rectangles. For example, group a..d gave 2/3 of the first column, and so on. Group x..z was assigned the last remaining smallest piece in the 6th column. Then everything is simple. Met an unknown word - enter it with translation into the desired rectangle. Nothing that is not alphabetically inside the block is not long to find. To get the translation lying on the bed, you need to go into the book dictionary. That is, the value of getting a translation is quite large, more than now looking at Lingua or an online translator like an article about vocabulary, which I did not noticeThe language is quite complicated. Complex and big story Great Britain has cited a very large number of words. The Oxford English Dictionary, known in many circles, has approximately 600,000 words and expressions. And if you add dialect and slang to this list, then the number of words will exceed 1 million. But do not be afraid of such a large number, because even native speakers do not know all English words. On average, an educated person, a native speaker, knows 12,000-18,000 words. Well, the average UK resident knows 8,000-10,000 words.
How many words do you need to know?
If a person is not a native speaker and does not permanently reside in an English-speaking country, then it will be almost impossible for him to withdraw his stock to the cherished 8000-10,000 words. 4000-5000 words are a good indicator.There is a standard and generally accepted gradation of the language. If the number of studied words is in the region of 400-500 words, then the level of proficiency is considered basic. If the active stock is in the range of 800-1000 words, then you can safely communicate on a variety of everyday topics. If this amount refers rather to a passive vocabulary, then you can safely read simple texts. A range of 1500-2000 words will allow you to communicate fluently all day long. If the vocabulary is 3000-4000 words, then you can safely read the English press or various thematic materials. A vocabulary base of 8000 languages \u200b\u200bguarantees fluency in English. With so many words learned, you can freely read any literature or write language texts yourself. Those with more than 8,000 words in their luggage are considered highly educated English learners.
The standard vocabulary base is distributed as follows:
- beginner - 600 words;
- elementary - 1000 words;
- pre-Intermediate - 1500-2000 words;
- intermediate - 2000-3000 words;
- upper-Intermediate - 3000-4000 words;
- advanced - 4000-8000 words;
- proficiency - more than 8000 words.
Thanks to this data, you can determine your level of language proficiency, as well as set goals for yourself. But how many words have already been learned? No, you don't need to measure anything with a ruler for this. Everything is much simpler. There is testing that can determine the number of learned words with a margin of error of 10%.
7000 vocabulary words were taken to create this test. From there, obsolete and rarely used words were removed. Also removed the words, the meaning of which can be determined using conventional logic. As a result, there were 2 small pages with words.
How to take the test?
The test must be taken with utmost honesty. The first page contains a list of words in columns. If at least one of the possible meanings of an English word is known, then a check mark is placed next to it. The same columns with words appear on the second page. But there is already a selection from previously unknown words. By doing this, the program checks whether these words are really unknown. For the complete completion of the test, there is another page that indicates age, gender, how many years of studying English and other important questions. After specifying all the data, the end button is pressed and the number of words in the test taker's vocabulary appears on the screen.Assessment of the number of learned and memorized words of a foreign language is primarily interesting for understanding how far a person has advanced in the "passive" perception of information: texts, speech, films, etc. I suggest that you familiarize yourself with several methods that I used, found on the net and "self-made". Below are a couple of vocabulary tests, a technique for finding important words that have not yet caught on in the brain, some reasoning and some links.
Online tests
Of the many word count tests, I liked two. A couple of years ago I came across a fairly simple Test Your Vocabulary. Going through three screens with words, you tick off those that (you think) you know, and then you get an estimate of the total number of words learned. Many of my acquaintances complained about its inadequacy - they received less quantity than "the one about which I know for sure that he knows worse." But during the passage, there may be a mistake of a different kind - it seems that you know the word, but in fact you have already forgotten. They say that the hand itself stretches to put a tick next to a word that seems vaguely familiar, so you can subconsciously overestimate your overall assessment.You know at least 10,500 English word families!
What do my results mean?
In general, there is no minimum vocabulary size. Language ability is related to vocabulary size, so the more words you know, the more you will be able to understand. However, if you want to set a learning goal, Paul Nation's (2006) research suggests that the following sizes might be useful:
How large a vocabulary is needed for reading and listening?
Skill Size estimate Notes
Reading 8,000 - 9,000
word families Nation (2006)
Listening 6,000 - 7,000
word families Nation (2006)
Native speaker 20,000
word families Goulden, Nation, & Read (1990)
Zechmeister, Chronis, Cull, D'Anna, & Healy (1995)
What is a word family?
There are many different forms of a word, so this test measures your knowledge of the most basic form of a word and assumes that you can recognize the other forms. For example, nation, a noun, can also be an adjective (national), a verb (nationalize), or an adverb (nationally). There are also forms which can be made with an affix such as de- or -ing which also modify the way that the word is used or adds to the basic meaning. For a test of receptive vocabulary knowledge such as this one, word families are considered to be the most accurate way of counting words.
Frequency dictionaries
After registering at www.wordfrequency.info, you can download the excelnik of the American English frequency dictionary. There is also a text version.Like this:
Rank Word Part of speech Frequency Dispersion
1 the - a 22038615 0.98
2 be - v 12545825 0.97
3 and - c 10741073 0.99
4 of - i 10343885 0.97
5 a - a 10144200 0.98
6 in - i 6996437 0.98
7 to - t 6332195 0.98
8 have - v 4303955 0.97
…
…
4996 immigrant - j 0.97
4997 kid - v 5094 0.92
4998 middle-class - j 5025 0.93
4999 apology - n 4972 0.94
5000 till - i 5079 0.92
The file contains 5000 English words sorted by frequency of occurrence. The frequency was counted on a huge, heterogeneous array of English texts. Recently, I saw a friend of mine looking for unknown words while checking his vocabulary. After looking through the first 500, I found no unknowns. He showed the extract on his smartphone - about a dozen words from the second thousand (that is, from 1000 to 2000) and about 20 words from the third. It's funny that, walking down the list, you come across sequences of words that are successfully added to phrases or even short sentences. The logic is very simple - if the word is very common according to statistics, and you do not know it, then it is better to learn and see examples of use.
After reading the list of words unknown to him (already with translation), I saw the following thing. I knew about 50-60% of these unknown words to him, but some of the meanings of the translations recorded there were unknown to me, there were several words completely unknown to me.
In general, the site is trying to be commercial, they sell lists of more than 5000 in length, but this is not so interesting anymore.
So far, this friend of mine is writing a program with a user-friendly interface for searching for unknown words - for educational purposes. I suggested that he use not this list for a global assessment, but a thinned one: every seventh word from the total list of 60,000 words is given. In fact, even watching the first couple of thousand drives you into despondency, not everyone will get to 5000. Although I do not presume to say 100%, the thinned dictionary will surely show at least one word from the "family", and the time will be spent, respectively, 7 or 10 times less (depending on the frequency of decimation).
By the way, such frequency dictionaries of the Russian language contain about 160 thousand words, including abbreviations and abbreviations. There are several different, similar "corpora" of English words from different organizations.
I'm interested in another question: how accurate are the tests that give an estimate of the number of words you know? It is possible that this could be determined just by checking the frequency dictionary, as well as comparing the list of selected unknown words - their number and occurrence in different "families".
There are general laws of remembering and forgetting. One of the main things: if a person has learned something and does not repeat, does not use, the information is forgotten exponentially from time to time. On the other hand, a few repetitions lengthens, stretches the falling exponent to an acceptable level. I was very surprised when an acquaintance who worked as a tutor for schoolchildren said that there is a sequence of time intervals for deep memorization: say, after 20 minutes, then after 8 hours, another day, etc., after which the information is firmly planted in the brain ... That is, the brain provides a statistically maximum level of the excitation signal when it encounters this information.
Ebbinghaus Curve, from Wikipedia.
How I learned words at the institute.
Without taking into account the standard course, where the requirements for the first three years were quite strict, I tried to read fiction. The first big book was Conan Doyle's old Soviet edition, The Lost World. I don't know how much it was adapted, but there was an abundance of Victorian words and expressions in the text, and this greatly delayed progress towards the end ... I quickly got tired of every new word. Tablets were not common then, pocket electronic translators were an expensive rarity, so I worked out a paper system for myself. In a thick 96-sheet notebook, the spread was divided into 6 columns. Now I tried to find a notebook - I got lost. We'll have to describe in words. Divided the alphabet into groups of letters, for example - a..d, e..f, g..j, k..n, o..q, r..t, u..w, x..z. Approximately, by eye, I estimated the statistical percentage of words that begin with these letters and divided the columns in the spread into rectangles. For example, group a..d gave 2/3 of the first column, and so on. Group x..z was assigned the last remaining smallest piece in the 6th column. Then everything is simple. Met an unknown word - enter it with translation into the desired rectangle. Nothing that is not alphabetically inside the block is not long to find. To get the translation lying on the bed, you need to go into the book dictionary. That is, the value of getting a translation is quite large, more than now looking at Lingua or an online translator like an article about vocabulary, which I did not noticeI really love to learn English, and the Puzzle English site is really the highest quality and most thoughtful resource that I have come across !!! Every time I feel a lot of gratitude to the creators and developers of the site for your work. Most of all I like working with listening and videos, and in general, the fact that it is possible to highlight any word and add it to your dictionary is amazingly useful in my opinion! Thank you very much!
Violetta,
36 years old, Rostov-on-DonI have been striving to master English for a long time. I need it for my studies and work. I attended courses, tried to study various computer programs, but the results were not encouraging. I learned about Puzzle-English on the Internet. I liked the project. I decided to try it. Having already passed 50 lessons (listening, videos, serials) I noticed that I began to understand English well enough by ear. It encouraged me, because could almost independently understand lectures in English. In this, I believe, it was Puzzle-English that helped me a lot. I continue to study English in Puzzle-English further and I am sure that the results will be even better. It is interesting and exciting to study. The authors are great! We approached the creation of the site creatively - from idea to practical implementation. I am glad that the guys do not stop there, but are constantly improving and developing services.
Igor Vayzian,
53 years old, VolzhskI am a housewife, far from young, practically - of pre-retirement age and I DO NOT need English anymore, and for trips there is enough meager school and institute base, BUT - sov. Accidentally stumbled across the networks on the puzzle English site plunged there with an unexpected pleasure. I don't have a specific motive for learning the language, but almost every evening my hands are typing "Paz-In" and I go to lessons and exercises. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe sentence constructor is so fascinating that my daughter (9 years old) sits down at Peppa's pig herself and, now, for Muzzy and asks me not to prompt. Many thanks to the creators of the site, we are looking forward to new lessons and cartoons for girls. Good luck!
Irina-yori,
MoscowI mostly watch only TV shows, first with Russian, then English subtitles in headphones. I check new words in the EN-Ru dictionary. I like grammar exercises, a variety of videos. The main thing is to do it every day. I am trying to silently conduct a monologue in English, using new words from Puzzle English. I want to learn English more and more.
Victor,
55 years old, TogliattiI have been learning English for quite a long time, both independently and with tutors. But this gave almost no visible results: either it was boring, or the approach to study was not correct. But since I got to know Puzzle-English everything has changed. Thanks to this resource, in less than six months, I began to fluently understand spoken English and translate texts of average difficulty. Learning on this site is fun, fun and always accessible. The "Series" section was especially effective for me. I thank the developers of the site for such a wonderful resource and a great opportunity to finally learn English!
Sergei,
24 years old, KharkivIn the evenings, I like to sit at Puzzle English. I love the game space that the site offers. I love to sing songs, though they often change and sometimes I don't even have time to memorize or write them down. I love children's songs, especially since their author is a very talented musician. I like the series of programs who live in London and how. This is very broadening and gives many frequently used words, in different variations. I liked the videos about Buddha and the Angkor Wat temple complex, I love the travel series. I liked the new Sherlock, the only thing I regretted was that there was no Poirot series with David Suchet. The songs are the best. I began to understand English by ear, although if the speakers are not native speakers, but Asians, Latin Americans, Indians, I still have difficulty understanding. For me, this is gurgling in the cauldron ... The vocabulary expanded and it was done playfully, without any tension. And I'm just happy to learn English on this site.
Hera,
MinskI fell in love with English for a long time back in my school years. Unfortunately, when I was studying, we developed reading skills, so after school I read at a fairly good level, I understand about 80% of what I have written. And such important skills as listening comprehension and speaking speech, they practically did not teach at school, or taught in a limited number. I came across this site by chance for about 2 years and I liked it for its gradation of educational material for users with different levels of training. The audio clips presented at Puzzle English helped to significantly improve the listening comprehension of English speech, especially in films, because if you take news clips, the announcers speak very clearly there and my listening comprehension level reached 60-70% when watching such clips. when watching movies, usually all my words merged into an almost continuous stream and only a few familiar words can be made out. By watching movies on this site and parsing them in detail by phrases. During the second, third viewing, you already hear these phrases and remember that they are And if you watch a movie at least 10 times, phrases are already spinning in your head and not only, you can say they fly off the tongue. Thanks to Alexander Antonov and his team for such a huge and necessary work, and most importantly for a not very large annual fee
Vladislav,
42 years old, KievWhen I found out that in 5 years I would need a decent knowledge of English, I went on an exploration job on the Internet. It was in October 2012 and in English I was almost zero (basic reading rules, 3 easy tenses, 500 words of vocabulary as a result of all my previous attempts). Having tried a bunch of sites, I ended up on Puzzle English ... And I fell in love ... that I found such a wonderful notion here that it was not necessary to study in the classical sense, but it was possible to simply play with words, trying to put them in the correct order. And to help and translation right next to the word, and voice acting right there, and cool, clear. It's great that the words are all in context and therefore are memorized much faster. And besides, videos ... After watching a bunch of very different ones, I forever got rid of the fear of whether I would be able to speak English correctly, as I saw that straight people often use quite free sentence structure. When the movie appeared, I already understood the series by 50%, and TED by almost 90%. In a word, my results surpassed all my ideas about them. Recently I passed a test interview with teachers from the USA, which identified me as a strong Advanced. And yet 2 years have not yet turned from the moment I arrived at puz-eng. And all thanks to such a wonderful invention - not to study, but to PLAY puzzle folding. Super! Now I am sure that staying with you, in a couple of years I will become good at English. I wish you to grow and develop, and I wish you and me.
Irina,
37 years old, LvivThank you very much for your site. Working with your site is very useful for developing your listening ability. I have been learning English for many years, but English comprehension has been my main problem. After studying on your website, I made a big leap in this area and became much better at understanding English texts by ear. An important innovation of the site developers is interactive exercises - puzzles. They allow you not only to watch the video and read the subtitles, but to actively act, making up the listened sentences from the words. The selection of videos and films is very impressive. Personally, I especially like documentaries of popular science films, a large number of which are available on the site. In the future, I would like to see on your website the Friends series (at least its first episodes) and classic English detective stories (such as, for example, Inspector Morse or Inspector Lewis), as well as films in which you can hear correct and competent English speech ("Royal English"). Also, in my opinion, it would be useful to create a general table of ratings of site members so that they have the opportunity, being active, to compete with each other. I would like to wish the site developers the site continued success and further development of this very useful undertaking.
Alexander,
54 years old, MoscowHuge THANKS to the entire Puzzle English team for such a wonderful project !! I studied English like everyone else: school, institute, even some courses at work, tried many sites, but the result was not like that, something was "mumbled" there, and no more)). About 1.5 years ago I accidentally stumbled upon Puzzle English, then the site was still very young, but from the first visit it attracted attention, I will not dissemble, firstly, the price, in comparison with other sites, is VERY democratic, and secondly, such a variety of materials as in Puzzle English, I have not seen anywhere else - this is a large number of videos of different levels, grammar exercises, service series (a truly unique service). Thirdly, you can practice at any time convenient for you. It is also worth noting that the site is aimed at Russian-speaking people who study English and the entire explanation of the material takes place in RUSSIAN LANGUAGE, which is important if your level of knowledge of the language is not so high ... In this regard, I would like to note one more interesting "thing" like "Tips-secrets", personally I learned a lot from them! After 1.5 years spent with Puzzle English, I finally start to speak English, and not "hum" as before, I passed the fear when communicating with native speakers, before that I was always afraid to seem stupid and avoided communication, I improved my listening comprehension skills ... In general, you can talk about this project for a very long time, but it's better to try it !! Once again, I would like to express my gratitude to those who are working on the project. I am very pleased with the way the whole process is organized. Administrators work very efficiently and quickly, the site is constantly evolving. I would like to wish the project a long life !!
Anton,
28 years old, KhabarovskI usually don't write reviews, I don't like (or maybe I don't know how). But for my favorite site Puzzle-English I will make an exception :-) In my opinion, Puzzle-English is the best site for independent learning of the English language, and even in a playful way. It's never boring on the site, you can always choose a video to your liking, regardless of the level of language proficiency. The site will be interesting for both a beginner and an experienced student: before you is a huge catalog of cute songs for children, cartoons, musical hits thundering all over the world, performances of famous artists and politicians, fragments of TV shows, training videos and other videos of various levels of difficulty. Your task is to listen to a part of the video, try to hear the phrase well and assemble a mosaic of its words. I treat this service as a game, entertainment, when I want to escape from my main work and relax for ten minutes, I just go to Puzzle-English and collect the video I like. With songs, an interesting effect is observed when you UNDERSTAND what this song is about .. Those who are interested in English grammar can go to the exercises section and practice the selected topic, collecting specially selected sentences, of course, first listening to a short theoretical video explaining the subtleties of this Topics. All phrases in this section are voiced by a speaker. The Puzzle-English website has a unique Serials service. Before you are several dozen episodes of famous TV series and programs: “Two and a Half Men”, “Sherlock”, “Great Expectations”, “Life on Mars”, TED conference talks, etc. You just watch your favorite TV series, and in difficult moments press pause and it becomes possible to read the script of the series, once again listen to the phrase, watch a video explanation of slang expressions and words. If you are a beginner, you can set to display subtitles in English and / or Russian. The site has a built-in player specially designed, and therefore convenient, for language learning. All unfamiliar words can be placed in a "personal dictionary". It is noteworthy that in addition to the word, a corresponding phrase with a translation into Russian is placed in the dictionary. And at the end I want to recommend you the Puzzle-English channel on YouTube, the guys share there tips on self-study languages, and it contains the entire collection of training videos on the site. PS. In order to use the site, you do not have to be a user with a paid account. Many sections can be used for free, just an annoying sign with a payment offer will be displayed all the time. PPS. And yet I urge you to pay for the services of the site, this money will help make the site even better, and its creators deserve to be paid for their work, in addition, you will have a lot of additional opportunities.
Inga,
hero city SevastopolWhen I started learning English in eighteenth last century we had only boring and incomprehensible English manuals. At that time didn "t exist the mp3 players, smartphones and laptops. I remembered even how People lived without the internet. And If I" d such stuff earlier, I "d been probably speaking English fluently now and could understand the English speech, movies and songs. Modernity has given us awesome facilities to study English. We can read the authentic books and newspapers, hear the English songs and audio books, watch the foreign movies and TV, communicate with native speakers. But we haven "t any time to practice this. Because I was glad when I found the site Puzzle English. On this website you can take a maximum of English stuff for yourself and spend a minimum of your time. Where are huge plenty of useful and interested English lessons, exercises, TV "s serials and so long. All of the ones were carefully prepared for education purpose. You can instantly find translation and pronunciation each English word or phrase and add one in your private vocabulary to try it later. All workouts are doing easy and fast. And I "m visiting on every day this site to improve my English language. Of course I use not only this website, but Puzzle English is my favorite one. And I hope with Puzzle English my awful English will have been reached the perfection.
Vladimir Schepkov,
49 years old, Sergiev Posad
I use Puzzle-English as an additional learning source. I love the "songs" section very much, I hope it will be replenished! Even today I thought that it would be very interesting to take part in filling the service.
I also love the exercise section, alas, I rarely get to watch the training videos themselves, but I go through the tasks with pleasure! Thank you very much for your work!
Margarita,
26 years old, Moscow
