Website explaining English idioms Thread poster: RHELLER
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RHELLER
United States
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Jeff Allen 
France
Local time: 15:58
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| English idioms (thanks) & English Tough Stuff poem | Mar 24, 2005 |
Thanks Rita,
this English idioms site looks like a valuable resource.
This reminds me of another resource I saw appear at least 10 years ago on the Linguist List.
After a few minutes of Internet digging, I couldn't find it directly in the Linguist Archives, but found another reference to it:
English is Tough Stuff
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This poem is properly titled "The Chaos", and appeared in Drop
Your Foreign Accent - Engelse Uitspraa... See more Thanks Rita,
this English idioms site looks like a valuable resource.
This reminds me of another resource I saw appear at least 10 years ago on the Linguist List.
After a few minutes of Internet digging, I couldn't find it directly in the Linguist Archives, but found another reference to it:
English is Tough Stuff
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This poem is properly titled "The Chaos", and appeared in Drop
Your Foreign Accent - Engelse Uitspraakoefeningen, by G. Nolst
Trenite (5th rev. ed., H. D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, 1929). It can be found at:
http://www.jokes2go.com/poems/7237.html?21
It's worth the reading, both for native English speakers as well as for non-native English speakers. After you get through reading through it, and laughing as you try to pronounce everything, then you have to go back and memorize how to pronounce all the words.
Jeff
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Williamson
United Kingdom
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Flemish to English
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Thanks a lot. Is there a website with their French/Spanish/German equivalents. Might come handy when interpreting.
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Thank you Rita - what a cool site!
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| thank you Rita | Mar 24, 2005 |
very useful indeed
thank you once again!
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Thank you Rita for the idioms link.
And to Jeff.. that is evil.
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Edda Emery (X)
Local time: 23:58
German to English
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| Both Great Sites! | Mar 24, 2005 |
Thanks Rita. I was relieved to find I knew the meaning of most of the idions (not that I went through everything), but interesting to see the origins of some of them.
Loved the Poem, Jeff! Have copied and pasted it to Word to get rid of the oodles of ads, so the friends I forward it to can read it in peace
Have a good Easter, everyone!
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RHELLER
United States
Local time: 07:58
French to English
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TOPIC STARTER | more complete listing! | Mar 24, 2005 |
thanks ilibon for that site - it looks like a more complete list
In fact, both sites have some slang expressions that may not be appropriate for pre-teens (check before you hand it out to your students!)
and thanks Jeff - I will not show that to my friends who are trying so hard to learn English - they might throw their hands up
-----... See more thanks ilibon for that site - it looks like a more complete list
In fact, both sites have some slang expressions that may not be appropriate for pre-teens (check before you hand it out to your students!)
and thanks Jeff - I will not show that to my friends who are trying so hard to learn English - they might throw their hands up
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throw up one's hands
Indicate or express utter hopelessness. For example, Jim was getting nowhere so he threw up his hands and abandoned the argument. This idiom alludes to a traditional gesture for giving up.!
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Jeff Allen
France
Local time: 15:58
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Jeff Allen
France
Local time: 15:58
Multiplelanguages
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| use bite-size morsel approach with English Tough Stuff poem | Mar 24, 2005 |
Rita Heller wrote:
and thanks Jeff - I will not show that to my friends who are trying so hard to learn English - they might throw their hands up
Rita,
The English is Tough Stuff poem is definitely something to show to language learners in bite-size morsels, couplet by couplet, rather than giving them an entire chocolate Easter bunny to eat in one sitting.
I have usually only given the whole text to folks whose English is good enough for them to have fun reading through it.
Jeff
[Edited at 2005-03-25 21:17]
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Jeff Allen
France
Local time: 15:58
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| more evil than the poem itself would be... | Mar 25, 2005 |
Dan Larsen wrote:
And to Jeff.. that is evil.
Real evil would be to challenge readers of this forum to write out the entire poem in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols.
Jeff
[Edited at 2005-03-25 21:16]
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Edda Emery (X)
Local time: 23:58
German to English
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| Poem without ads | Mar 28, 2005 |
Thanks Jeff for those sites. My eldest son is currently visiting an English tutor to help him with his writing skills in his final year of high school, and I've sent it to her too. She loved it!
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