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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

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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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fork over a lot of money

[fork over a lot of money] {v. phr.} To pay an excessive amount of money often unwillingly. * /"According to my divorce […]

take at one's word

[take at one's word] {v. phr.} To believe everything (someone) says; to act on what is said. * /If you say you don't want […]

Don Marquis

(1878-1937) U.S. humoristpoet Bores bore each other, too, but it never seems to teach them anything.

Idioms to Learn Today

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Idioms to Learn Today

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run for one's money

[run for one's money] {n. phr.} 1. A good fight; a hard struggle. - Usually used with "give" or "get". * /Our team didn't […]

stem the tide

[stem the tide] {v. phr.} To resist; hold back something of great pressure or strength. * /The way to stem the tide of […]

Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.