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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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Ronnie Shakes, late U.S. comedian

Where there's a will, there's a dead person.

Prairie Dogging

[Prairie Dogging] When something loud happens in a cube farm, causing heads to pop up over the walls trying to see what's going […]

long

[long] See: [AT LAST] or [AT LONG LAST], [BEFORE LONG], [COME A LONG WAY], [IN THE LONG RUN], [NO LONGER], [SO LONG], […]

take back

[take back] {v.} To change or deny something offered, promised, or stated; admit to making a wrong statement. * /I take back […]

make out

[make out] {v.} 1. To write the facts asked for (as in an application blank or a report form); fill out. * /The teacher made […]

to the wall

[to the wall] {adv. phr.} Into a place from which there is no escape; into a trap or corner. - Usually used after "drive" or a […]

Wallace Irwin

(1876-1959) U.S. editorauthor Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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