Grammar tips and writing guides
September 8, 2026
Duolingo is free but shallow, Babbel is structured but pricey, and GrammarMama corrects what you actually write. A three-way, honest breakdown — including price.
September 8, 2026
Both apps teach a structured curriculum. GrammarMama also corrects what you actually write, tracks your real mistakes, and runs a proper vocabulary trainer — at a third of the price. Here's the honest comparison.
August 7, 2026
The final four B2 lessons: contrast linkers beyond although and however, shortening relative clauses down to a to-infinitive, referring precisely to a group with all/none/both/neither, and using past forms to talk about the present unreally. With these, the whole English B2 curriculum is live.
August 5, 2026
Four more B2 lessons: advanced phrasal verbs with multiple meanings and three-word chunks, joining ideas concisely with participle clauses, adding formal emphasis with inversion, and spotlighting information with cleft sentences.
July 21, 2026
Five more B2 lessons: judging the past with should have and needn't have, placing actions precisely on the future timeline, emphasising duration before a past point, arranging services with the causative, and the trickier gerund/infinitive patterns.
July 17, 2026
Four more B2 lessons: reporting what others said or believed (passively and directly), adding extra detail with non-defining relative clauses, and drawing confident conclusions about the past.
July 14, 2026
B2 is open — four new lessons that take you into upper-intermediate English: the third conditional, mixed conditionals, wish / if only, and the passive across every tense.
July 10, 2026
The English B1 curriculum is complete — 22 free lessons, from the past simple vs present perfect all the way to phrasal verbs. The last six cover both/either/neither, question tags, so/such, linkers of reason and contrast, phrasal verbs, and modifying comparatives.
July 6, 2026
Four more B1 lessons are live — defining relative clauses (who/which/whose/whom), reported speech for retelling what someone said, gerunds vs infinitives after verbs, and as...as comparisons for equal things.
July 3, 2026
Four more B1 lessons are live — the past perfect for sequencing two past events, modals of possibility (may/might/could), modals of deduction (must/can't/might), and the present and past passive.
July 1, 2026
Four more B1 lessons are live — the second conditional for imaginary situations, future time clauses, a full review of will/going to/present continuous, and the present perfect continuous.
June 29, 2026
B1 is open — four new lessons that sort out the present perfect vs past simple confusion once and for all, bring back the past through *used to*, and introduce the zero and first conditionals.
June 28, 2026
The A2 curriculum is now complete — 28 free lessons covering everything from the past simple to relative clauses, all organised in one learning path.
June 26, 2026
Four new A2 lessons on building more precise English — the right article (a, an, the, or none), prepositions of movement, relative clauses with who/which/that, and too vs enough.
June 25, 2026
Four new A2 lessons on past tenses and polite requests — the past continuous for background actions, the present perfect for life experiences and ongoing situations, and can / could / may for asking politely.
June 23, 2026
Four new A2 lessons on the small words that carry a lot of meaning — have to and must for obligation, should for advice, be able to for ability beyond can, and the infinitive of purpose for saying why.
June 20, 2026
The A2 path keeps growing — four new lessons on will for predictions and decisions, the present continuous for arrangements, adverbs of manner like quickly and well, and verbs + -ing for what you love doing.
June 18, 2026
The A2 path just grew again — four new lessons on possessive pronouns, reflexive pronouns, quantifiers like few and a little, and be going to for plans and predictions.
June 11, 2026
The grammar curriculum just grew — four new A2 lessons on comparative and superlative adjectives, countable and uncountable nouns, and some/any/much/many.
June 8, 2026
A clear, level-by-level path through English grammar — free, no login, and starting with the Past simple.
May 14, 2026
ChatGPT is a powerful tool, but it's not a learning system. We break down the key differences: who tracks errors, manages vocabulary, and builds a long-term language learning program.
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April 19, 2026
Looking for a Duolingo alternative? GrammarMama offers deep personalization and a structured approach — let's break down the differences and who each suits.
April 18, 2026
Looking for a Grammarly alternative that actually teaches you a language? Here's why GrammarMama is the smarter choice for real learners.
April 3, 2026
Moving to Germany without speaking German — sounds like a plan. How I survived for years without the language, and why I eventually had no choice but to learn.
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