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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

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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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Mel Brooks

(1926--) U.S. comedian If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

bent

[bent] {adj.} 1. dishonest or corrupt, 2. homosexual (mildly derogatory).

give a hang

[give a hang] or [care a hang] {v. phr.}, {informal} To have any interest or liking; care. - Used also with other words in the […]

shoot the works

[shoot the works] {v. phr.}, {slang} 1. To spare no expense or effort; get or give everything. * /Billy shot the works when […]

G.K. Chesterton

(1874-1936) One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

nutcase

[nutcase] {n.} An insane person.

swear off

[swear off] {v.}, {informal} To give up something you like or you have got in the habit of using by making a promise. * /Mary […]

the works

[the works] {n. plural}, {slang} 1. Everything that can be had or that you have; everything of this kind, all that goes with […]