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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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Marilyn Manson

In the end we're all Springer guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

Idioms to Learn Today

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

glad rags

[glad rags] {n.}, {slang} Clothes worn to parties or on special occasions; best clothes. * /Mrs. Owens put on her glad rags […]

howling success

[howling success] {n.}, {informal} A great success; something that is much praised; something that causes wide enthusiasm. * […]

Lord Woolton, British politician

One of the principle troubles about inflation is that the public likes it.

Idea Hamsters

[Idea Hamsters] People whose idea generators are always running.

come off second best

[come off second best] {v. phr.} To not win first but only second, third, etc. place. * /Our home team came off second best […]

loaded for bear

[loaded for bear] {adj. phr.}, {slang} Ready for action; prepared and eager. * /Frank liked the new merchandise and as he […]