By Translation, Vocabulary

www.yolango.comIt's a free site for intermediate to advanced English learners. Helps you practice by watching captioned videos on a whole variety of topics - music videos, movies, science, art, sports. Nice feature is that you can click on the captions and get a word-level translation into...

www.yolango.com It's a free site for practicing English by watching videos. For early-intermediate to advanced English learners who want to practice comprehension & vocabulary. Inspired by S. Krashen's 'comprehensible input' theory, they've gathered a bunch of videos...

Hi mulberry, WELCOME TO THE FORUMS ! Do you happen to know if this is a translation? "Snowdrop" isn't part of my vocabulary, and I spent many years in snow country. "Snowflake" is common, but doesn't seem to fit your phrases. The gauk I know is spelled...

Hi Velimir. I appreciate your agreeing comments. In part, I also agree with what you said. I must disclaim. I have no higher ambition in the learning of English than to achieve a respectable fluency and to use English properly. In all my professional and personal life, I have this philosophy...

Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! But I'm trying to be happy. I'm pulled into a debate over "the very English standard" in a Chinese translation forum. A "sensible" lad who crammed in China's New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages, including those in nytimes.com, economist.com,...

"Slang is mostly made by lively, imaginative people, who are not afraid of being different from others or of breaking the accepted rules of grammar and speech. It has been called 'the plain man's poetry' and is valuable because it gives new life to old ideas. Naturally it occurs most in...

Cso.huang wrote: Recently, I read some news on the site of CNN/VOA/BBC in order to improve my english. I am trying to comprehend the news in simple English sentence to learn some skill of vocabulary usage. Also, I am insisting on writing some english article to improve my written english. I...

Miche wrote:Hi, JT. I can see you don't like rules much and I agree with you. Rules are too restrictive, hamper one's "feeling" the language and deprive him/her of the pleasure of speaking the language. That is a major problem with English learners in my country - they can recite mile-long lists...

Exactly! Selecter wrote: Anonymous wrote: I personally have a funny way to remember a vocabulary--I try to remember it as a picture. For example, if vocabulary is a new word for me, I focus my eyes on the whole word, then I close my eyes and force myself recall the whole word together with...

Anonymous wrote:I personally have a funny way to remember a vocabulary--I try to remember it as a picture. For example, if vocabulary is a new word for me, I focus my eyes on the whole word, then I close my eyes and force myself recall the whole word together with its shape, then I open eyes...