The Voice of America website has some excellent stories that you can use to listen to American English. I especially like the series titled Words and Their Stories. This series has stories with idioms, phrasal verbs and stories that describe American culture. Keep this in mind though: the narrators who read the audio tend to
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Voice of America has a great online idiom dictionary that you can use to learn to pronounce and understand American Idioms. This dictionary even has dialogs that you can listen to. That means that you hear each idiom used by American English speakers in context. American Idiom Dictionary with Audio Listening to dialogs is a
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Here are two common idioms that you will hear when you are listening to people speak American English. Bring Home the Bacon In American English a person who brings home the bacon is the person who earns the money for the family to live on. For example, if my father works hard to support my
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There are lots of sites on the web these days where you can find idioms with audio files. Click the link to find a comprehensive site that features 423 English idioms. This is a great tool for practicing your American English pronunciation! Practice American English pronunciation with Idioms. Related posts When O is Pronounced With
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Randall Davis, the professor who created the well known ESL-lab website has a new site called EZ Slang. This site features American English audio dialogs that include common idioms and slang phrases. Each dialog is recorded by American English speakers in an everyday conversational style. If you can mimic the dialogs it will really help
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I am currently teaching a class in spoken English to a group of teachers from overseas. One area of spoken English that they are very interested in are idioms. Last week in class I organized the class into small groups and assigned each group an idiom. Once they had studied and understood the idiom they
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