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, [...]
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Origins of English Idioms
August 22nd, 2011 
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Posted in ESL Studies, Learn English Language, Uncategorized 
Tags: English Idioms, Learn English 
No Comments »English Learning Videos For ESL Students
August 8th, 2011 NYLLC 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. You can find them everywhere: on [...]
English Dictionaries For Beginners
May 9th, 2011 NYLLC All students who just started learning the English language experienced this at least once: you see a word you don’t know, you find it in the dictionary and the translation does very little to clarify the meaning of the word. Before you venture on conversing freely in the lexicon of intellectual complexity and academic erudition, [...]
Meetup: Groups for ESL Students
March 28th, 2011 admin New York is a great place to be an ESL student. You are fully immersed into American culture, exposed to the English language and get to see with your own eyes everything that makes New York one of the most exciting cities in the world. But as welcoming and densely populated as the city is, [...]
English Idioms: A Piece of Cake or A Can of Worms?
March 24th, 2011 admin English idioms are one of the most difficult topics for any ESL student to master since they are not translated literally and cannot be understood from the individual meanings of their elements. If your new smart phone cost you an arm and a leg, it does not mean that you actually had to amputate your [...]
Your New Favorite Facebook Apps
March 13th, 2011 admin It’s hard to find a website as time-consuming and addictive as Facebook. The seemingly never-ending saga with the privacy issues aside, it’s a really great resource for staying in touch with your friends and family, spying on your exes, networking and meeting new people. Or, if you happen to bored, you can easily kill an [...]
How To Increase Your English Vocabulary
March 11th, 2011 admin Do you dislike reading because a lot of words are unfamiliar to you? Do you often find yourself at loss for words not due to emotional duress but simply because you don’t know how to say what you want? Don’t worry – many people, and even native speakers, are no strangers to this phenomenon. Fortunately, [...]
Posted in ESL Studies, Learn English Language Tags: English Vocabulary, ESL Student, Learn English 8 Comments »10 Benefits of ESL Classes
November 25th, 2010 admin We all know that learning English is important for living in the United States of America. However, finding ESL classes means so much more to those that need them. The differences from one country to the next can be vast. Each country has very specific laws, routines and customs. ESL classes fulfill a very important [...]
Should English be Standardized?
November 25th, 2010 admin Today we are all part of a “Global Village”. The Internet continues to have exponential growth, as even more people are becoming aware of this “Global Village” on a personal level. People correspond with others from around the globe on a regular basis, products are bought and sold with increasing ease from all over the [...]
Bilinguals Wanted
November 10th, 2010 admin Two major factors fuel the increasing demand for bilingual professionals in the U.S. First, Hispanics now represent over twelve percent of the U.S. population; their spending power has more than doubled in less than 20 years. Since customers often prefer to do business with someone who speaks their language, companies need bilingual employees to communicate [...]
