Yiddish
Check out today’s Teatime Titbit: Wonderful Wednesday Words. Yiddish When listening or reading particularly American English you may often come across Yiddish words. ‘Yiddish is a Germanic language, originally spoken by the Jews of Central…
Colloquial, idioms & slang
Short.
Check out today’s Teatime Titbit: Wonderful Wednesday Word: Short. The prefix ‘short’ is a clever tool for your English toolkit and here are 7 ways you could use it in your daily work: In the…
24 1/2 phrases for agreeing & disagreeing.
Check out today’s Teatime Titbit: Speak like a native: Do you have discussions in English at work? Do you often feel you’re language is somehow limited to a few phrases? Then this post might just…
Slang up your Friday
Check out today’s Teatime Titbit: Slang up your Friday. A bit of fun on Friday – 5 slangers (made-up word) and a vid to go. Have you ever heard of the following 5 slang words/phrases?…
Getting to grips with ‘get‘ 2.
Getting to grips with ‘get‘ 2. If you were to take the time to read and digest (etw (geistig) verarbeiten)) the ‘to get’ definition on the Oxford Advanced English Dictionary http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com website, you would probably…