Learning English Slang

Americans love their slang. It is unusual to get through even one normal conversation without at least one idiom or slang phrase coming up.  Idioms, or slang expressions, are words or phrases that you cannot figure out from the actual word choice. They often mean something completely different from the normal use of the words, [...]

Posted in Building Vocabulary Skills, English as a Second Language, ESL, slang, vocabulary games on February 19th, 2009
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Who Do You Know That Would Make A Good Blogger?

There are people in my life that I’m secretly convinced would make a smashing success out of blogging.  Like a friend of mine who lives off the grid.  She and her husband have a self-sufficient farm, complete with various farm animals. They have one daughter who is two years old and they all share a [...]

Posted in Building Vocabulary Skills on February 7th, 2009
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