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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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on one's coattails

[on one's coattails] {adv. phr.} Because of another's merits, success, or popularity. * /Bob and Jim are best friends. When […]

show one's hand

[show one's hand] {v. phr.} To reveal or exhibit one's true and hitherto hidden purpose. * /Only after becoming Chancellor […]

Abraham Lincoln

(1809-1865) U.S. President Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Idioms to Learn Today

Learn/refresh your knowledge against this set!Then check yourself by running flashcard test by definitions or by descriptions.

Quality ESL Lessons

About 200 video lessons authored by Jennifer (an American teacher). The levels are from beginner to advanced. Enjoy different […]

Prutkov Kozma

Kozma Prutkov - a collective pseudonym for the group of Russian writers - Alexey Tolstoy and Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, who […]

Idioms with call to learn

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

greasy spoon

[greasy spoon] {n.}, {informal} Any small, inexpensive restaurant patronized by workers or people in a hurry; a place not […]