von Camila Otálora | Donnerstag, Mai 28, 2020 | Get informed
Afraid of your English getting rusty? No need to worry! While there are certainly more obstacles around at the moment with interaction reduced to a minimum due to social distancing, we hope to provide you with some ideas & resources to stay motivated.Here is what...
von Camila Otálora | Mittwoch, Mai 20, 2020 | Practice, Practice Vocabulary
Idioms are an integral part of a language and English is no exception (according to Wikipedia, English has approximately „twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions“). As we have pointed out on our Idiom of the Week posts, these expressions are used in a...
von Camila Otálora | Mittwoch, Mai 20, 2020 | Get informed
The goal of Idiom of the Week is to showcase some of the many commonplace idiomatic expressions found in the English language in order to help you understand them better. This week, however, we have chosen a more unconventional expression to show you: “I’ll burn that...
von Camila Otálora | Montag, Mai 4, 2020 | Get informed
This week we’ll look into four idioms which share a common origin: baseball. These are most prominently used in American English, although they have spread to other varieties of English mostly through cultural osmosis. The prominence of these idioms in American...
von Camila Otálora | Montag, April 27, 2020 | Get informed
For something to have a silver lining is a common English idiom to express that a certain negative occurrence can also have a positive side to it. This idiom likely originates from John Milton’s 1634 masque Comus which contained the lines, Was I deceiv’d, or did a...