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Textbooks barely scratch the surface of real English. Movies and TV give you the idioms, slang, and natural speech you actually need.
Textbooks barely scratch the surface of real English. Movies and TV give you the idioms, slang, and natural speech you actually need.
English is the working language of international business, science, aviation, and the internet. Around 60% of all web content is in English.
Hollywood, Broadway, the BBC, podcasts, YouTube. Learning English unlocks the largest library of media content on the planet.
English proficiency is required or preferred for jobs at most multinational companies. It is also the most useful language for traveling across different countries.
Learn English from 15,000+ clips from movies and shows you actually want to watch.
Hear something new? You'll never miss a word again.
Quick challenges using the scenes you just watched.
Every clip is a mini lesson. The more you watch, the more you know.
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Native speakers use phrasal verbs constantly. "Figure out," "come up with," "run into." Wordy's movie clips make this intuitive. Tap any phrasal verb for an instant translation and save it to review later.
Use Wordy's clip looping to pause after a line of dialogue and repeat it at the same speed and rhythm. This builds muscle memory for connected speech, where words blend together like "gonna," "wanna," and "shoulda."
Watch both British and American shows to notice differences in vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. Knowing both variants makes you a more flexible communicator.
English has borrowed words from over 350 languages, making it one of the most eclectic vocabularies in the world (Oxford English Dictionary).
The most common letter in English is "e," appearing in about 11% of all words (Oxford Dictionary analysis).
There are roughly 170,000 words currently in use in English, but most native speakers only use about 20,000 to 35,000 (Nation & Waring, 1997).
