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Language Yum Yums: Slang Course: The Great Flyover and a Small Geography Lesson
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English Language Learning: Where every course is dessert. Saturday, April 2, 2011. Slang Course: The Great Flyover and a Small Geography Lesson. This term refers to any part of America between New York City and Los Angeles, but mainly in reference to the American Midwest (see below). Essentially what this term means is that the Midwest of the country is sooooooo utterly boring with no tourist attractions, that it is land one simply flies over from NY to LA or LA to NY. Be safe: Don't use it, know it.
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Language Yum Yums: Vocabulary Course: Foreign Origin English Word of the Day: Pell Mell
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English Language Learning: Where every course is dessert. Monday, April 4, 2011. Vocabulary Course: Foreign Origin English Word of the Day: Pell Mell. In a topsy-turvy manner; chaotic; disorderly. I actually used this wonderful vocabulary gem today in spoken English, so I felt that I had to share it with all of you! Here is what I said mid-afternoon in a conversation with a colleague:. Suddenly looking out the window) "Wow! I just saw a policeman run all pell mell. Out of the F building*! American Cultur...
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Language Yum Yums: April 2011
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English Language Learning: Where every course is dessert. Thursday, April 14, 2011. Reading Course: Dying Languages. Q: What happens when the last two people on Earth who speak a language decide they hate each other and won't speak to each other? A: You need anthropologists. To rush to the scene and attempt to save the language from extinction! Read the following article. And test your reading comprehension by answering the following questions:. Which language is about to die out? B How long ago? Yummy l...
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Language Yum Yums: March 2011
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English Language Learning: Where every course is dessert. Thursday, March 31, 2011. Phonetics Course: Do Ya Wanna Sound 'merican? However, my accent has changed through the years because I have lived in many other places including London, Hamburg, Chicago, Las Vegas, and Bozeman. (Bozeman? Where's that you say? It is today's homework assignment to find out where in the heck Bozeman is located. But do that after this lesson of course. That is why it's called homework! For example in this screen capture fr...
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Language Yum Yums: Vocabulary Course: Rain, Rain, Go Away...
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English Language Learning: Where every course is dessert. Friday, April 8, 2011. Vocabulary Course: Rain, Rain, Go Away. Quiz: Do you know how to complete the ancient but still popular nursery rhyme, 'Rain, rain, go away'? Answer at the bottom of the post. It's raining again in Chicago. I sound like a broken record. This spring. However, today it is not really raining, but more like something people in London call mizzle. Which is somewhere between mist. But it is a nice fantasy to have, right? You only ...
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Language Yum Yums: American Culture Course: Mad about Baby Bald Eagles
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English Language Learning: Where every course is dessert. Thursday, April 7, 2011. American Culture Course: Mad about Baby Bald Eagles. Mama eagle keeps her eaglets warm. I like to read Huffington Post. Because it links to many quirky. News stories that tend to. By giant media outlets like CNN and MSNBC. Yesterday, I learned about the Decorah Eagles, which The Raptor. Is broadcasting from Decorah, Iowa on ustream.tv. By yesterday evening, news about the Decorah eagles had spread like wildfire. Odd in a p...
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Language Yum Yums: Reading Course: Dying Languages
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English Language Learning: Where every course is dessert. Thursday, April 14, 2011. Reading Course: Dying Languages. Q: What happens when the last two people on Earth who speak a language decide they hate each other and won't speak to each other? A: You need anthropologists. To rush to the scene and attempt to save the language from extinction! Read the following article. And test your reading comprehension by answering the following questions:. Which language is about to die out? B How long ago? Yummy l...
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Language Yum Yums: Vocabulary Course: What's Your Story?
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English Language Learning: Where every course is dessert. Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Vocabulary Course: What's Your Story? Seems like a simple vocabulary word until you ask four native English speakers in a room what story. Means To your shock, you realize that you heard four different answers. The English language is rich in vocabulary, and one word can have many different but similar meanings. Let's look at four main definitions of story. 1 a report/article found in a newspaper/magazine. To go on televi...
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Language Yum Yums: Resources Course: Foreign Language Translator Apps
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English Language Learning: Where every course is dessert. Monday, April 11, 2011. Resources Course: Foreign Language Translator Apps. Let us sing for you. The article, Lost in Translation? In USA Today ranks. Several translator apps for your smartphone. According to the reviewer, Google Translate. Is the way to go. Considering that Google Translate. Was the only free app reviewed and it is the best, all I can say is ' Sweet. This makes me wonder if you would be served tofu 1) with singing accompaniment.
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Language Yum Yums: Proverbs Course: April Showers and English Settlers
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English Language Learning: Where every course is dessert. Friday, April 1, 2011. Proverbs Course: April Showers and English Settlers. A cool picture of it raining in Chicago will be here by the end of the day, Okie-dokie? Come back and lookie real soon! Hello dear Yumers, and how is life treating you on this fine Friday, the first of April? As we say here in the States: TGIF. The now warming sun's rays and you are instead forced to gaze at with a steel grey sky. April showers bring May flowers. This prov...
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