Each language has phrases or sentences that cannot be understood when you study it word by word. Even if you know the meaning of each word of the phrase, the meaning of the phrase stay confusing. That's the definition of an idiom
In English, native speakers use a lot of idiomatic phrases everyday. These idioms can be proverbs, informal phrases or common phrases.
If you want to speak English, or you want to learn English you should spend sometime to learn idioms or to learn about idioms because they are very important in your English learning.
If you study formal English, I mean English grammar and formal phrases, and after that you go to the US maybe you cannot understand one phrase.
To learn this type of idiomatic phrases in English you should be a good listener, you should spend all your time listening to English. You should listen to one English idiom more than 40 times to have it in your brain.
You can't find English idioms if you study grammar or if you study English at schools.
The only way to learn English idioms is to listen to native speakers and whenever you hear a phrase that is not understandable (and you understand each word individually) you open your book and you see the meaning. When you hear this same phrase another time, you may understand it, and then you will learn to use this idiom.
Learning English idioms takes a lot of time because there are thousands or millions.
You will never learn all English idioms, but you should know at least 500 American expressions, the most used ones.
Don't open your book to look for idioms and to learn them, open it only when you hear a weired expression
And now I will give you an example of English idioms, an American expression that is used a lot by native speakers:
Above and beyond: it means more than is required
Let's put it in phrase: His efforts were above and beyond! It means that he had done all what he had to do, AND he has also done an additional work.
If you don't have a book of English idioms, or you don't know which book to choose, I advice you to don't waste your time looking for English idioms books because I just selected some ones for you:
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Showing posts with label english idioms. Show all posts
Sunday, June 20, 2010
American expressions
Each language has phrases or sentences that cannot be understood when you study it word by word. Even if you know the meaning of each word of the phrase, the meaning of the phrase stay confusing. That's the definition of an idiom
In English, native speakers use a lot of idiomatic phrases everyday. These idioms can be proverbs, informal phrases or common phrases.
If you want to speak English, or you want to learn English you should spend sometime to learn idioms or to learn about idioms because they are very important in your English learning.
If you study formal English, I mean English grammar and formal phrases, and after that you go to the US maybe you cannot understand one phrase.
To learn this type of idiomatic phrases in English you should be a good listener, you should spend all your time listening to English. You should listen to one English idiom more than 40 times to have it in your brain.
You can't find English idioms if you study grammar or if you study English at schools.
The only way to learn English idioms is to listen to native speakers and whenever you hear a phrase that is not understandable (and you understand each word individually) you open your book and you see the meaning. When you hear this same phrase another time, you may understand it, and then you will learn to use this idiom.
Learning English idioms takes a lot of time because there are thousands or millions.
You will never learn all English idioms, but you should know at least 500 American expressions, the most used ones.
Don't open your book to look for idioms and to learn them, open it only when you hear a weired expression
And now I will give you an example of English idioms, an American expression that is used a lot by native speakers:
Above and beyond: it means more than is required
Let's put it in phrase: His efforts were above and beyond! It means that he had done all what he had to do, AND he has also done an additional work.
If you don't have a book of English idioms, or you don't know which book to choose, I advice you to don't waste your time looking for English idioms books because I just selected some ones for you:
In English, native speakers use a lot of idiomatic phrases everyday. These idioms can be proverbs, informal phrases or common phrases.
If you want to speak English, or you want to learn English you should spend sometime to learn idioms or to learn about idioms because they are very important in your English learning.
If you study formal English, I mean English grammar and formal phrases, and after that you go to the US maybe you cannot understand one phrase.
To learn this type of idiomatic phrases in English you should be a good listener, you should spend all your time listening to English. You should listen to one English idiom more than 40 times to have it in your brain.
You can't find English idioms if you study grammar or if you study English at schools.
The only way to learn English idioms is to listen to native speakers and whenever you hear a phrase that is not understandable (and you understand each word individually) you open your book and you see the meaning. When you hear this same phrase another time, you may understand it, and then you will learn to use this idiom.
Learning English idioms takes a lot of time because there are thousands or millions.
You will never learn all English idioms, but you should know at least 500 American expressions, the most used ones.
Don't open your book to look for idioms and to learn them, open it only when you hear a weired expression
And now I will give you an example of English idioms, an American expression that is used a lot by native speakers:
Above and beyond: it means more than is required
Let's put it in phrase: His efforts were above and beyond! It means that he had done all what he had to do, AND he has also done an additional work.
If you don't have a book of English idioms, or you don't know which book to choose, I advice you to don't waste your time looking for English idioms books because I just selected some ones for you:
Sunday, September 27, 2009
english words: gonna, 'll, em
Hi, today we are gonna talk about one of the differences between written English and spoken English.
When we use the future, in written English we use will and going to.
Example: Alan will go to the school, he is going to meet his friends.
But in spoken English, we say: Alan’ll go to school, he’s gonna meet his friends.
This difference is usually ignored by students who have never learned English with the rights method, they thing that written English and spoken English are the same, but they are completely different and those students are completely wrong!
Another difference is the use of em instead of them.
Example: he talked with them à he talked with’em
When students hear this phrase, they usually don’t understand it, that’s really strange!
That’s why I advice you to learn spoken English and then go to the written English as our children.
So that’s it, see you later!
B.N. JOHN (bnjohnbn@gmail.com)
http://fastest-english.blogspot.com
english words: gonna, 'll, em
Hi, today we are gonna talk about one of the differences between written English and spoken English.
When we use the future, in written English we use will and going to.
Example: Alan will go to the school, he is going to meet his friends.
But in spoken English, we say: Alan’ll go to school, he’s gonna meet his friends.
This difference is usually ignored by students who have never learned English with the rights method, they thing that written English and spoken English are the same, but they are completely different and those students are completely wrong!
Another difference is the use of em instead of them.
Example: he talked with them à he talked with’em
When students hear this phrase, they usually don’t understand it, that’s really strange!
That’s why I advice you to learn spoken English and then go to the written English as our children.
So that’s it, see you later!
B.N. JOHN (bnjohnbn@gmail.com)
http://fastest-english.blogspot.com
Friday, September 4, 2009
Americans use Idioms
Like everyone else in the world, Americans use a variety of idioms daily.
As mentioned in the previous article, idioms are groups of words where if you look to each single word you will understand nothing.
To speak English better, you should learn idioms because they are very important in English speaking.
While there are millions of American idioms, just hundreds of them are used daily.
So, you need to be more familiar with these hundreds, and all is going to be fine.
English speaking is full of idioms; you need more repetition to learn a lot of them.
If you learn many idioms, you will be powerful, everyone will appreciate you speaking, everyone wants to listen you and you’ll become popular!
Idioms are never taught in English schools, that’s one of ht raisons schools are terrible!
You can’t find English idioms in English schools; you can only find them using real materials like TV…
To help you, I will teach you many idioms through the next articles, and remember: “be patient”
You can see my best article about American Expressions
Americans use Idioms
Like everyone else in the world, Americans use a variety of idioms daily.
As mentioned in the previous article, idioms are groups of words where if you look to each single word you will understand nothing.
To speak English better, you should learn idioms because they are very important in English speaking.
While there are millions of American idioms, just hundreds of them are used daily.
So, you need to be more familiar with these hundreds, and all is going to be fine.
English speaking is full of idioms; you need more repetition to learn a lot of them.
If you learn many idioms, you will be powerful, everyone will appreciate you speaking, everyone wants to listen you and you’ll become popular!
Idioms are never taught in English schools, that’s one of ht raisons schools are terrible!
You can’t find English idioms in English schools; you can only find them using real materials like TV…
To help you, I will teach you many idioms through the next articles, and remember: “be patient”
You can see my best article about American Expressions
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