Easy Email Vocabulary in English: Easy English

We have talked a few times about emails. Emails are very important. Email is a common way for people to communicate (talk to each other). It’s good to know easy email vocabulary in English. Here are some of the basics. We know this easy email vocabulary will be helpful! But you can always send us an email to tell us if it worked!

Inbox

Your inbox is where all of your emails arrive. It’s like a mailbox for your email. Each time you get an email, it goes to your inbox. You can see each email you’ve gotten in your inbox… until you delete (get rid of, throw it out) it, of course!

Are you getting the Bespeaking newsletter in your inbox?

For example:

• I sent you the email yesterday. It should be in your inbox.
• Her inbox was full, so she had to delete a lot of old emails. Then she had more space.

Spam

Sometimes we get emails that we don’t want. Some of these emails are spam. Spam are emails that are sent to a lot of people. They are not important emails. Spam often has a lot of advertising. They are sent from companies trying to sell you things. Just like your inbox, there is a spam folder. Your email will send spam there so you don’t have to see it. Spam can be very annoying!

For example:

• If you haven’t received the email, please check your spam folder. Sometimes they end up there.
• I’m sorry I didn’t see your email. It looked like spam to me.

Phishing

Phishing has nothing to do with the band Phish (sadly). Phishing is very dangerous. Phishing is when people try to steal information from you through email. They may ask for your bank information. Then they can steal your money. Or they may try to steal your identity (pretend to be you). It’s important to see if you know who sent you an email. If you don’t know who sent it, don’t click a link. That is a common way for people to steal information from you.

For example:

• I keep getting phishing emails. I can tell because their spelling is very bad. And I don’t know who they are.
• Our IT department sends us fake phishing emails. They want to know if we click phishing links. They’re trying to keep us safe.

Signature

Our last easy email vocabulary word is important. You can sign an email like a letter. When you sign, it’s called a signature. The signature is at the bottom of the email. It says who the email is from. At work, you may have your job title in your signature. Adding your signature at the end of an email is very polite. It tells someone what your name is.

For example:

• There was no email signature, so I don’t know if this is from a real person.
• When I got a new job, I changed my signature. It has my first and last name and my job title.

Did you find this easy email vocabulary helpful? Did you learn something new? Let us know in the comments below!