Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS I love teaching slang and idioms for a couple of reasons. First of all, you hear them all the time in movies, TV shows, and in everyday conversation. Secondly, using slang and idioms makes your English conversation sound more natural and less like a textbook. Today, we’re …
411 – Slang & Idioms Using GET
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSGet is quite an interesting word in English, don’t you think? In addition to having several different meanings, like become (it’s getting cooler outside) and buy (I got a new watch), the verb get is used in a lot of different idioms and slang expressions. For today’s English …
301 – 6 Slang Expressions & Idioms Using OVER
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSOver! Let’s learn 6 slang expressions and idioms that use “over.” Here are the example sentences. To get the details of this English lesson, you need to listen to the podcast or the check the transcript for the details: I am so over this cold weather. I am …
291 – Using Like as a Modifier in Casual English
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS As you know, we use the word like as a verb to talk about our preferences. We also use Like in a variety of other ways in casual, English conversation. For today’s English lesson, I’d like to show you a few different ways that we use like …