ABA Journal The digital English academy

One fundamental skill to have in the world of business and other environments is certainly negotiation. In our global and intercultural world, considerable adaptation skills, diplomacy, conversational skills, and a good dose of cold blood ...

Imagine that adverbs of quantity didn’t exist. You’d have to go around everywhere saying an exact number if you wanted to make the person you were talking to understand the quantity you were talking about. ...

Have you ever found that you start an activity full of determination and energy and as time goes by, you slowly get more and more discouraged? Maybe some aspects of that activity are more complicated ...

Do you use any social media? You probably have an account on more than one platform. That isn’t surprising since nowadays, this is one of the ways we often choose to meet new people and ...

If there’s one thing that seems to create a big tangle of information when learning English, that is the verb tenses. While many languages may have their own set of verb tenses and conjugations that ...

The end of the year is approaching. That feeling of Christmas is beginning to arrive as well. In some countries, people gather together to sing Christmas songs and carols. In others, everyone listens to them ...

Each unit of our course includes a videoclass - a video lesson taught by one of our ABA teachers which covers the grammar you saw in the ABA Film at the start of the unit.

The video classes are an essential educational resource which will help you to understand the content of the English course units. They are a useful and complete tool which you will be able to use whenever you need, to understand the grammar better and revise what you have learnt.

Each unit has a corresponding video class: our team of teachers will offer you an easy and entertaining explanation of English grammar, starting with basic things and gradually getting to the most complex things.

You can watch these videoclasses with subtitles in your own language, in English, or without subtitles when you are able to understand them completely.

Would you like to watch one? Here is teacher Ella, explaining the conditional and how to use it with the present:

You may be wondering, “What is a quantifier?” Quantifiers are words that come before nouns and modify them. Like adjectives, quantifiers give us extra information about the noun they modify. In this case, they tell ...

Textual connectors are very useful for joining not only sentences but paragraphs as well. In the case of paragraphs, the use of the correct connectors makes the text coherent and harmonious. They also help the ...

If you are thinking of travelling abroad, you will definitely want to be able to offer your assistance if necessary. When at the airport, you may want to help someone put their bags in the ...

No one on Earth is oblivious to the changes that are taking place on our planet. Climate change is one of those issues that affect everyone. Every day, more and more people are committing themselves ...

Learn the Verb “To Be” Negative The verb “to be” is one of the most useful and most used verbs in any language. Since we use it to give information and to correct information, it ...

Improve Your Vocabulary With 25 Different Ways to Say “Said” Learning a language is not just learning grammar and making sure that you reproduce the words in the correct order. Vocabulary is important, too. Within ...

Master the Interrogative Words in English Why are you learning English? When did you start? What is your English level?  These three question words, also known as interrogative pronouns, are used when forming questions in ...

Affricates: What Are They and How Do You Pronounce Them? When learning a language, one of the most frustrating parts to get correct is the pronunciation. This is true whether you are in an online ...

Language Careers Are you thinking about what degree you should study at university? You are probably a little worried about this decision since we all want to find the right balance between doing what we ...