The quickest route to learning a language is through a solid grounding in the basics. So you won't find a lot of endless drills. This book features a step-by-step approach to learning English based on the way people naturally acquire language. With an emphasis on everyday language, this book gets you speaking and understanding English right away. You learn the most essential structures, to allow you to communicate in English almost immediately. Through a series of inter-connected "steps", you will progress in a logical way to more common concepts that govern how English is spoken and written. Along the way you will acquire hundreds of carefully selected vocabulary words that are most frequently used in everyday English.