Princeton Review Vocabulary Minute Podcast

Hi all, A while ago, we have introduced a couple of great (and free) English learning podcasts, including the ESLPod. Have you started listening to any podcast yet? If you haven’t, there is one more reason for you to do so. Recently I discovered The Princeton Review (yes, the one who published a couple of [...]

Wordnik – a new kind of dictionary

Today I learned about Wordnik http://www.wordnik.com/about from The daily post at WordPress.com. Even though the definition here is mostly from other dictionaries, Wordnik has a number of advantages over traditional dictionaries: it – gives many examples (which is always good if you want to better understand a word) from major news media and project Gutenberg, [...]

English saying – 1

Today we learn a way of saying in English: Haste makes waste. “Haste” is used to describe an unnecessarily quick action or a thoughtless, rash, or undue speed (su voi vang). “Waste” has many different meanings. Here it means a  neglection (waste of opportunity), or anything unused, unproductive,  or not properly utilized. This tells us [...]

Merriam-Webster online and word stories

Just in case you don’t know it, the online dictionary Merriam Webster once in a while has a very interesting post about various topics about words. Recently there is a Top 10 words with remarkable origins. Normally we accept the word as it is. However, words are in fact living things. Think about how our [...]

Học từ vựng thế nào?

Tình hình là mình nghĩ mình nên có thêm các posts bằng tiếng Việt để giúp các bạn mới học anh văn Hôm qua mình mới nói sơ qua về việc học ngữ pháp. Hôm nay mình sẽ nói về vấn đề học từ vưng. Nếu các bạn tìm một chút sẽ thấy trong blog [...]

What is the plural form of…?

Today we’ll try to answer a question, “What’s the plural form of zero?” Now one can argue… zero is zero, nothing, how on Earth can it has a plural form? But it does, when it is used for “nghiệm của một hàm số”, a value at which a function vanish. And strangely enough, zero has [...]

Happy birthday to Jeff and hello to ESL Podcast blog

I am late for 2 days, so Happy belated birthday to Jeff in ESL Podcast!!! (He is one of my favorite podcasters!) (For intermediate and advanced learners) We have learned about ESL Podcast a while ago. Do you know that they also have a blog, the ESL Podcast blog? Apart from some posts with detail [...]

American English color-related idioms

I can’t recall when and how I have this collection of idioms, but I believe you guys will want to know them BLACK black humor : funny way of looking at or treating something that is serious or sad black market : illegal trading of goods that are not allowed to be bought and sold black [...]