Wylcomenetwork.com istudycards Popular Expressions were especially developed to help native as well as non- speaking persons learn the meaning of some of the most frequently-used and familiar expressions in British, Australian and American English. Each expression has been translated into standard English.
Popular expressions are popular because they are used throughout the language. They are the primary reason that television, radio, music, movies, newspaper and magazine articles, jokes, puns and riddles are so difficult to understand, even after studying a language for years. Why are popular expressions so difficult? That question is not at all hard to answer. They are so difficult because they are idiomatic which means that they are expressions whose meaning is not predictable from the usual grammatical rules of a language or from the usual meaning of its constituent elements. How do you literally or grammatically explain the following popular expressions in English: to arrive in the nick of time, to drive someone up the wall, to squirrel away money, to take someone down a peg or two, to pig out or to dog someone. Although Americans, Australians and Brits speak English, culturally speaking they are very different. No where is this more evident than in informal speech. If you are a speaker of American English, how do you understand the following British and Australian expressions: as near as makes no odds, as nice as ninepence, as soon as say knife, as different as chalk and cheese, to be a bean-feast, to win one's blue, to become a blue at Oxford, to dip one’s soldiers into soft-boiled eggs, to give someone beans, or to eat beetroots? Other than living in the country where the language is spoken, memorization is the only way that these type of idioms are learnt. These expressions are ignored at one’s peril; that is, to say that these idiomatic expressions are important is one of the great understatements. The expressions in Englishbegin.com and Idiomatic Expressions.com istudycards Popular Expressions are required for anyone who hopes to understand, and speak, English as it is actually spoken and understood. istudycards Popular Expressions were especially developed to help native as well as non- speaking persons to learn the meaning of some of the most frequently-used and familiar expressions in British, Australian and American English. Each expression has been translated into standard English.
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