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Interesting English Lessons

Learn British English online with Linguaspectrum (~100 lessons). Check an example video about "confusables" from Linguaspectrum channel. * /They're homophones, there, their, they're and they're easily confused :)/ Linguaspectrum

English Slang

English-slang.com is an ESL learning collection with an accent on slang and idioms We hope it will grow into a resource useful for those learning or teaching the language as […] www.english-slang.com

My Fair Lady - Why Can't The English?

"Why Can't The English?" lyrics from the movie "My Fair Lady": Henry: Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter, Condemned by every syllable she ever uttered. By law she […] www.english-slang.com

Rude Americans - Do you speak English?

From time to time overseas we always tend to see American tourists not bothering to learn the countries' language but instead being frustrated with locals not being able to speak […] www.english-slang.com

Slang is

"very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid and ephemeral than ordinary language" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary) - learn ~600 slang expressions

An idiom is

an expression "whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements… or from the general grammatical rules of a language"

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(1903-1975) English criticeditor No one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

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Lessons on American and British English differences.

make or break

[make or break] {v. phr.} To bring complete success or failure, victory or defeat. * /Playing the role of Hamlet will make […]

take on faith

[take on faith] {v. phr.} To lend credence to something due to one's confidence in the source, rather than based on evidence. […]

alive with

[alive with] {prep.}, {informal} Crowded with; filled with. * /The lake was alive with fish./ * /The stores were alive with […]

give as good as one gets

[give as good as one gets] {v. phr.} To be able to give back blow for blow; defend yourself well in a fight or argument. * […]

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If the shoe fits, it's not on sale.