In the last few years the use of online translation tools has risen dramatically as more and more translation websites pop up on the internet such as Google Translate and FreeTranslation just to name a ...

Hey ABA friends! When you live abroad, you often start to find that you miss the food from your own country or perhaps treats that are not even just native to your country, but perhaps ...

What’s new ABA family? So I think it’s fair to say that we have all been in situations where we have had to talk to people that we didn’t know beforehand. This could be because ...

What’s up everyone! We all know that in every language, there is a variety of words to mean the same thing sometimes, otherwise known as synonyms. The English language is no stranger to this and ...

Hey! Would you like to hear a joke? An old woman took a package to the post office to mail and was told it would cost $3.95 for fast delivery or $2.30 for slower service. “There ...

What’s new everyone? As we have mentioned in previous blog posts, “must” and “should” serve for obligations and suggestions/advice. In today’s blog post, we are going to look at their structure in negative form and ...

As I’ve mentioned before, idioms are fun. And they can be learned in groups. Often a certain word or phrase will appear in a few different idioms with related meanings. Today we’re going to look ...

The monarchy or the royal family in the United Kingdom have always been renowned for their impeccable manners and protocol but how does one manage to act in such a way that is not only ...

Prepositions are one of the most difficult aspects of English grammar because sentences in other languages which use one preposition, can have 3 or 4 different translations in English depending on the context. Today we ...