Idioms, or set expressions, replacing a long description with a vivid image that everyone can understand, make speech lively and emotional. LiveOnEnglish offers 10 of the most beautiful English idioms to remember. The British and Americans simply adore fixed expressions and insert them into conversations literally...
Are you salty about my playlist? (“Does my music annoy you?”) an acquaintance asks his friend, smiling. The five of us sit at his house and play board games, eat snacks and drink cider, more like lemonade. He is from California, works and films in Washington...
English teachers all over the world never tire of arguing that there is no need to be shy about your accent. But this does not mean that you cannot improve yourself or try new things. If you've always wanted to speak like Lady Mary of Downton Abbey or Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's, go for it! Choose with which ...
Homonyms—the same word with different meanings—are something that can make English difficult. How to distinguish them from each other, says Grammary. What is the same word with different meaning? Homonyms are defined as the word...
Ivan Rubtsov spoke in a column for the Habr website about his experience of learning English and shared things that worked and didn’t work for him personally. He recalled that the process of learning a language is very individual, and one can never say that any one method is correct...
Sometimes Russian speakers, speaking in English, sound very rude. This is usually due to the fact that they very literally translate phrases that are pronounced normally in Russian, but do not sound very good in English. On his YouTube channel, Justin shared four moments when Russian-speaking...
An English-Russian culinary dictionary to help housewives who want to cook according to the recipes of English-language sites and books. Lifehacker has decided not to stop at translating common ingredients like vegetables and fruits. The article contains only those terms that will help you follow the recipe exactly and cook ...
Lingualeo's teachers have made an excellent selection of podcasts for preschoolers, schoolchildren, and teens with varying levels of language proficiency. Language learners won't lie: listening is the hardest skill. But it is important to master it, since the process of listening is 45% of the total time of communication between people. Gadgets and the Internet help turn the training process into a fun ...
Do you like games? We think every English learner wants the learning process to be easy and fun, like a favorite game. We also believe that learning English is fun, so today we offer you 10 sites with collections of free online games for learning ...
Many consider idioms to be the highlight of any language, because they are unique, peculiar, although sometimes they can be confusing. Idioms are stable turns of speech, the meaning of which is not in the individual words of which they are composed, but in the history of the origin of these expressions. AT…