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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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Rogers Hornsby

(1896-1963) U.S. baseball player I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

fit

[fit] {adj.} sexually attractive (Afro-Carribean).

Idioms with keep to learn

Flashcard learning set.Check yourself now!Try flashcard test by definitions or by descriptions.Set includes the following […]

green around the gills

[green around the gills] or [pale around the gills] {adj. phr.}, {slang} Pale-faced from fear or sickness; sickly; nauseated. […]

live off someone

[live off someone] {v. phr.} To be supported by someone. * /Although Eric is already 40 years old, he has no job and […]

cheat on someone

[cheat on someone] {v. phr.}, {informal} To be unfaithful (to one's wife or husband, or to one's sweetheart or fiancee). * […]

out-and-out

[out-and-out] {adj.} Extreme; complete; thorough. * /The candidate was an out-and-out conservative./ * /It was out-and-out […]

Garrison Keillor

(1942--) U.S. writer Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.