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Learn English with Pictures and Video

This is how it works: Select a topic videoLearn new words through picturesWatch them come to life through videoTest what you've learned at the end through a video quiz Here […] EnglishClass101

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

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What American English sounds like to non-English speakers

In this remarkable and fully rockin' video, an Italian singer (Adriano Celentano) performs a rock piece whose lyrics are gibberish intended to sound like English. Entitled "What English Sounds Like […] 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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Albert Einstein

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

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Quizzes on idioms starting with K

URT

[URT] "Urban Terror"; A mod for Quake III

be set on

[be set on] or [upon] {v. phr.} To be determined about something. * /Tow is set upon leaving his Chicago job for Tokyo, […]

sell short

[sell short] {v.} To think (a person or thing) less good or valuable than is true; underestimate. * /Don't sell the team […]

George Jean Nathan

U.S. drama critic I drink to make other people interesting.

ba-donka-donk

[ba-donka-donk] or [badonkadonk] {n.} {ebonic} An extremely curvaceous female behind. Women who possess this feature usually […]

beat the band

[beat the band] {adv. phr.}, {informal} At great speed; with much noise or commotion. - Used after "to". * /The fire engines […]