by Thandi Ngwira Gatignol
"I like reading and teaching English and I have found your site Learn English With Africa very useful and interesting."
As a learner or curious visitor, we always encourage you to play an active role through creativity and adventure. Additionally, you are constantly challenged so that you can continue to improve your speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.
We teach in a colourful and pleasant way through rich stories, vivid emotions and striking imagery. These include comprehensive vocabulary and grammar lessons, short stories, poems, quizzes, varied audio and original video content. You will equally find dozens of creative and original charts to help you understand concepts in a quick and easy-to-remember way.
Let’s have a closer look at what you can get.
Later on, I discovered more short stories in the weekend editions of the Malawi News or Nation newspapers. They were highly entertaining and often morally-based. Above all, they provided us with a lot of vocabulary and useful expressions that enabled us to read more books and improve our English fluency.
Indeed, stories are a great way of learning languages in general. They allow us to discover new words and worlds. In fact, they are a clever way of meeting and studying grammar in context. Besides, they allow students to build their autonomy and self-confidence as their language skills improve.
Our short stories are set in Africa and in the diaspora and are all an interesting read. Some of them also come with vocabulary or grammar charts, a reading comprehension or vocabulary worksheet to facilitate understanding.
We have beginner (A1-A2), intermediate (A2-B1) to advanced levels (B1-B2). You can also buy short stories as a paperback or e-book >here<
Khama is a good boy. He works very hard at home and at school. However, he has no friends. One day, Khama finds a strange bottle. It is a glass bottle. How does Khama react? What about his friends, classmates and family? Read ‘The Mysterious Bottle’ to find out.
‘Sometimes what people show is not what we see’. This is the end sentence of this captivating intermediate short story about a woman who is intrigued by her neighbour. When the neighbour disappears one day, hard lessons are learned. Read the ‘Possessive Wife’ and learn more about Possessive Adjectives and Possessive Pronouns.
The line between myths and legends is very thin. Do you know the difference? Embark on a mythical and thrilling journey with us and discover the secrets of Nyami Nyami, the river god of the Zambezi and learn more about describing stories.
Learn more about ADVERBS OF PLACE with this beginner short story! It is fascinating and fairly easy to read. If you love nature and talking about travelling then this short story will please you! You can also watch a video and download useful vocabulary charts!
With our thorough lessons, you can learn how to describe yourself, your family, your school, your nearest hospital, your city or village. You can also learn how to talk about a famous historical character or an inspirational person. You can equally describe a poster, an advert, a photograph or a drawing. As a matter of fact, why not also learn how to describe the African continent and its landscape? The vocabulary lessons are numerous and the sky is the limit!
Besides, we even provide you with a variety of situations. Hence, you can be more creative and adventurous. In the end, you can show off your newly acquired skills to your friends, classmates, colleagues, family members or teachers through practice!
Finally, we encourage you to check the pronunciation or meaning of new words in a bilingual or unilingual dictionary for phonetic accuracy. Remember—speaking is as important as writing! Once you have mastered a vocabulary field then you can enjoy our compelling short stories that give you insightful glimpses into African culture and how people live on a day-to-day basis.
Make 2026 the year you row your English boat with purpose. Small, consistent efforts and smart choices will take you farther than endless hours of unfocused study.
Khama is a good boy. He works very hard at home and at school. However, he has no friends. One day, Khama finds a strange bottle. It is a glass bottle. How does Khama react? What about his friends, classmates and family? Read ‘The Mysterious Bottle’ to find out.
The line between myths and legends is very thin. Do you know the difference? Embark on a mythical and thrilling journey with us and discover the secrets of Nyami Nyami, the river god of the Zambezi and learn more about describing stories.
Do you know where the name ‘Zambia’ comes from? What does ‘One Zambia, One Nation’ stand for? How many languages are spoken in Zambia? This detailed quiz about Zambia enables you to learn more about this beautiful African country.
We kill boredom with fascinating situations. Often, you actually forget that you are learning boring grammar information (that you need to know anyway), as you are constantly active. You are invited to think, create, correct, imagine situations so that you see how these grammar tools are actually friendly and easy to use.
Thus, you can learn about the Present Perfect Tense through a short story that is called ‘The Perfect Present’. You can know more about Conditionals by immersing yourself in a short story entitled ‘Unconditional Love’.
You will also find more lessons on BE, HAVE, the Present Continuous tense, Modal Verbs, Reported Speech and many more.
Finally, as with vocabulary lessons, you get to see grammar in action in rivetting and unforgettable short stories .
I recently visited Morocco and decided to do a series of 5 grammar lessons revolving around the theme of location. This is the first lesson where you will learn how to describe the location of Morocco using Prepositions of Place.
Learn more about POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES and POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS in this detailed beginner to intermediate grammar lesson. Colourful grammar charts available.
‘Sometimes what people show is not what we see’. This is the end sentence of this captivating intermediate short story about a woman who is intrigued by her neighbour. When the neighbour disappears one day, hard lessons are learned. Read the ‘Possessive Wife’ and learn more about Possessive Adjectives and Possessive Pronouns.
I recently had the privilege to visit Ethiopia and participate in the Great Ethiopian Run International 10km. It was a fun sporting event which drew thousands of participants from all walks of life. Read more about the ‘Africa’s biggest race’ and ‘street party’.
I founded Learn English With Africa in 2015 with the aim of providing authentic learning and teaching materials about Africa. Since then, thousands of people from all over the world have been using this website’s content to perfect their English or learn more about Africa in general.
