One of the repeated questions we get at Sahasriya is how can I improve my vocabulary? And we get this from everyone beginners, intermediates OET and IELTS students and even students doing a master’s degree. But did you know that? Sometimes one single word can be slightly changed to mean something? Slightly different? You don’t …
When students take time to describe their weekend, though they were interesting, they seem to come up with questions on “How can I learn more phrasal verbs?“ We at Sahasriya, produce exciting yet simple as well as fun yet informative ways to learn English. This episode is about Phrasal Verbs for describing one’s weekend and …
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It’s important to make sure your pronunciation is as clear and natural as possible. You want to be easily understood in the world when you speak English. The hardest parts of English pronunciation are what’s called ‘consonant clusters’. These are when two or more consonants are joined together without a vowel like FR as in …
Gen-Z lingo is a cool yet confusing construct that native English speakers of the Gen-Z category call as jargons, that they use in their communications and interactions. This podcast details over 30, yes…30+ jargons that Gen-Z use commonly. Remember, these are only a sub-set of 20 more jargons of their casual communication, which will also …
Phrasal Verbs are one of the toughest as fluent English speakers are used to run words together to convey a meaning which are very different from individual words that constitute them. Multilingual speakers always find it difficult to understand the meaning of many sentences because it includes phrasal verbs. This episode provides the methods and …
Indefinite Pronouns – What are they? What’s the correct grammar usage if you want to use them? There are a lot of indefinite pronouns that we see native English speakers use. While there are close 20 indefinite pronouns in English language, using some of these pronouns with correct grammar has always been a challenge for …
How can I understand which is the correct usage between who vs whom or for that matter which vs that. I often make mistakes and am confused which is the right way to use these confusing constructs In this episode, we cover many confusing constructs including “who” vs “whom” “which” vs “that” “few” vs “a …
We hear others tell us that they are doing dishes of mopping the floors. What are the other words used and what they really mean? All of us do housework. These are vocabularies that every one of us need to know and understand as we all do housework. This episode explains vocabulary related to housework …
Adjectives is one of the important parts of speech in English and is generally used to describe the emotion or a feeling. But often, native speakers use words related to food to describe a person or a situation. Why is it so? That is because, the words to describe taste is used to detail about …
All of us love telling a story as much as listening to stories. The verbs used for stories also makes us use less commonly used verbs and thereby helping us improve our vocabulary too. As we love stories, we also explore in this episode the usage of past continuous verb tense and not just that, …
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