Englishan is an English learning site for students, teachers, and anyone who wants to write and speak the language with more confidence.
Everything published here is free to read, and the practice material is free to download.
Why Englishan Exists
Most learners do not fail at English because they lack material. They fail because the material answers the wrong question.
A dictionary gives a meaning but not the situation the word belongs to. A grammar book states a rule but rarely explains why the rule bends when it does. A word list hands over fifty items without showing how a single one behaves in a sentence.
Englishan was built to answer the question a learner actually arrives with. When someone looks up two words that keep getting mixed up, they want to know which one to use in the sentence they are writing right now, not a pair of definitions that leave the choice unresolved.
That principle decides what goes on every page: the rule, the reason behind it, and sentences a learner could use without changing a word.
How We Teach
We show words rather than only defining them. A great deal of vocabulary here is taught visually, because a learner who sees the object beside the word remembers it long after a written definition has faded. This matters most for concrete vocabulary, where a picture settles in one second what a paragraph struggles to explain.
We write examples that earn their place. An example sentence is written for the word it illustrates. Recycling one sentence across unrelated entries teaches nothing, and learners notice.
We give teachers something to hand out. Printable practice and a worksheet generator exist because a lesson needs material, and preparing it from scratch takes time most teachers do not have.
We build the occasional tool. Where a task is better solved by a tool than an article, such as filtering five-letter words by the letters already known, we build the tool.
Who Reads Englishan
Learners work through vocabulary and grammar at their own pace. Students prepare essays, letters, applications, and comprehension answers for school and examinations. Teachers take practice sheets and visual material into the classroom. Parents teach younger children at home. Writers arrive looking for a sharper adjective or the difference between two words that are easily confused.
Writing for that range means one thing in practice: explanations stay accessible to a beginner without becoming shallow enough to insult an advanced reader.
How Our Content Is Made
Lessons are written by people who understand the point being explained. Grammar and vocabulary content comes from Julian Mercer, whose teaching background shapes how each rule is introduced and which examples are chosen. The word game material is written by Amelia Wright, whose puzzle editing decides which words belong in a grid and which would frustrate a player rather than test one.
Meanings, spellings, and parts of speech are verified against established dictionaries rather than against other websites. Where British and American usage diverge, we mark the difference instead of presenting one form as the only correct answer. Where a word is ordinary in speech but out of place in formal writing, we say so.
Published pages are revisited. Explanations get rewritten when they prove confusing, examples get replaced when they fail to land, and broken links get repaired.
When We Get It Wrong
We would rather be corrected than stay wrong in public.
If you find an inaccurate meaning, an unnatural example, a grammar explanation that misleads, or a download that fails, send us the page address and the exact wording involved. Reports that quote the sentence get resolved fastest, and corrections affecting accuracy come before anything cosmetic.
The People Behind Englishan
Julian Mercer, Founder
Julian Mercer founded Englishan.com and has taught English for more than a decade. He holds a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics, works across grammar and vocabulary, and specializes in visual vocabulary, the area of the site where words are taught alongside images.
His particular interest is the relationship between imagery, language, and word recall, which is why so much of the vocabulary published here is built around pictures rather than definitions alone.
Amelia Wright, Word Games and Puzzles
Amelia Wright writes the daily word game challenges at Englishan.com. She holds an MA in Linguistics and brings five years of puzzle writing and editing to the grids she builds.
A committed Wordle player with a long-standing interest in how words behave under pressure, she has a sharp instinct for what players will recognize, overlook, or second guess. Her puzzles favour familiar vocabulary and inventive turns, and they aim for the kind of win that feels properly earned.
We name the people who write these lessons on purpose. Anonymous content asks readers to trust explanations with nobody standing behind them, and anyone learning a language deserves to know whose judgment they are relying on.
Get in Touch
Questions, corrections, and suggestions reach us at contact@englishan.com or through our contact page. You can also follow Englishan on Facebook, Pinterest, and YouTube.
Reader questions decide much of what gets written next. When the same question arrives repeatedly, or a lesson leaves something obvious unanswered, that becomes the next piece of work.
FAQs
Yes, every lesson and download on the site is free, with no account or subscription required. Advertising covers the running costs, which keeps the material open to learners who could not pay for it.
Grammar and vocabulary content is written by Julian Mercer, the founder, who has taught English for more than a decade and holds a master’s in Applied Linguistics. The word game challenges are written by Amelia Wright, who holds an MA in Linguistics and has spent five years writing and editing puzzles. Both are named on the site so readers know whose explanations they are following.
Yes, the practice material is intended for classroom use and may be printed and given to students. Crediting Englishan is appreciated wherever the format allows it.
Both, with the difference identified where it matters. Spelling, punctuation, and parts of grammar diverge between the two varieties, and each is correct in its own setting. Lessons covering a point of divergence say which form belongs where.