Daily Life & Community Vocabulary
Explore the vocabulary used for everyday situations — shopping, food, housing, clothing, and transportation — for learners anywhere in the world.
One domain, several areas of vocabulary
Daily life brings together several connected areas of vocabulary.
This section includes language for shopping and buying, food and eating, housing and where you live, clothing and how it fits, and transportation and getting around.
Daily Life & Community is a domain grouping, not a single vocabulary list. Each topic explores its vocabulary as a connected system, showing how words relate to and differ from one another, rather than as an alphabetical glossary — and each is written to stay useful wherever you happen to be, since prices, customs, and systems all vary from country to country.
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These five topics explore different areas of Daily Life & Community vocabulary. They can be explored independently, in any order.
How these lessons work
Vocabulary becomes more useful when related words are learned together.
Each topic in this domain explores its vocabulary as a connected system rather than a list of isolated words. You’ll typically encounter a concept, the vocabulary connected to it, useful distinctions between similar words, natural word combinations, and realistic examples of the language in use — though the exact shape adapts to what each topic actually needs. Prices, customs, and rules for everyday situations like these vary between countries, so each lesson focuses on the vocabulary itself rather than any one country’s way of doing things.
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