By: learnenglishny | 2011-09-28 | College As you already know, there are over 15,000 idioms in the English language and you’d better learn at least some of them. But as you encounter an idiom after idiom, you have to be at least slightly curious how they were originated and became widely used. Some of them were coined by the great writers, others came from the Bible, and a lot of them came from French and Latin. read more
By: borg exvw | 2011-10-10 | K-12 Education Every language has its mother tongue, and you can learn stories as well as histories from your mother tongue, and there are also many phrases, as well as idioms in your mother tongue, so it is very important for you to learn the idioms of a new language. read more
By: Linguarama | 2011-02-21 | Reference & Education Idioms refer to phrases where their common meaning cannot be understood simply from the meanings of the individual words. They are cultural elements of speech and can prove a barrier to those who are speaking a non-native language. Five common English idioms are given below, together with their meanings, origins, and examples of their use in everyday use. read more
By: vong chang | 2012-12-19 | Painting Four Treasures of Study:Chinese people have called writing brushes, ink sticks, paper and ink slabs the four treasures of the study since ancient times. With such special materials and tools, consisting of brushes of different types, ink and pigments of different textures, xuan paper, silk and various kinds of ink slabs, all of them play important roles in Chinese painting and should be well-pre read more
By: Alan Poly | 2011-11-29 | Leasing I Year loan obtain economics with the borrower on online loan request form as a replacement of manufacturing paper appliance. read more
By: Grace Rimando | 2010-08-30 | Language Learning English is a hard mission with non-English speaking people. But when living in a country speaking English, you must use English as well as a native language to integrate with the environment, take jobs and take care of your relatives. To do so, the best way is taking part in English courses with qualified instructors and tools for learning vocabulary, grammar, idioms and sentence structur read more
By: mann | 2009-07-18 | Tutoring Use this page as a starting page to improve your English. English tenses and important grammar rules are explained with follow-up quizzes. read more
By: Martina | 2010-11-11 | Reference & Education The necessity of learning the English language to survive in the labor market but also to communicate in any situation has meant that many are now not only the admirers and lovers of the idiom but also of Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. read more
By: Calvin Johnson | 2010-04-04 | Politics "The U.S. House of Representatives has issued an apology to black Americans for the institution of slavery." In 2008 it is hard for Americans, who don't know the slave history of their own country to understand why an apology was necessary. read more
By: CharlotWilson | 2011-03-22 | Reference & Education These word databases can be used for machine language translation, formulas to rank collocation, most used priority word lists, word grouping tendencies and other linguistics research. read more
By: Michael L Wilson | 2010-04-03 | Language ESL students often mess up when they use idiomatic expressions. The word "get" is an example. Let's see how you can get down and learn! read more
By: learnenglishny | 2012-01-05 | Language Watching movies and videos in English is a great way to improve your ability to understand spoken English and pick up the pronunciation. Since it might be difficult for you to understand most movies and TV series, you can start with watching videos made specifically for the ESL students. read more