Learning an language involves a combination of skills and information, and gradually, the language starts to make sense, and you can understand bits of what you read and hear. Speaking and writing the language is a lot harder, and takes considerable courage at first. As well as the structure of the language, you need the building blocks, the words to understand when something will happen, for instance, and to be able to say what you need to say.

This site is an easy and quick reference to useful words in several languages, with links to help you get further with the language more quickly.