(YouTube link)Flula Borg is German... ...s German buts lives in Los Angeles and finds that English idioms make no sense. If you are at work, be warn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/20/the-proof-is-in-the-pudding/(YouTube link) The dialogue in this short fil... ...The dialogue in this short film may sound like English , but it is mostly fake. Commenters who've taken English as a second language say this is what our languag... .... It may sound to you like someone who is mocking English...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/13/fake-english/Have you ever wondered if George Washington, Ben F... ...e, after all, they were originally members of the English colonies. As it turns out though, Americans th... ...nt closer to the British of that time than modern English people do. While dialects vary throughout both co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/13/did-early-americans-have-a-british-accent/English may be an idiosyncratic language, but it is actua... ...ore positive than negative words in the English language: Led by the University...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/02/english-a-happy-language/The BBC News Magazine recently posted an article a... ...an article about "Americanisms" creeping into the English language (meaning British English in this case). That article brought many response... ...hearing the phrase "that'll learn you" - when the English (and more cor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/20/50-disliked-americanisms/When hearing a language that you are not familia... ...st sound like real words but aren’t. For native English speakers this series of video clips demonstrates... ...further what their language may sound like to non English speakers. In addition this article explores what... ...tp://blogs.howstuffworks.com/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/14/what-does-english-sound-like-to-foreign-ears-2/On one hand, you have to feel for someone who is working in a language they don't know. On the other hand, these are too funny to not pass along! In some cases, you kind of know what they are trying to say, but the w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/09/20-fortune-cookie-fortunes-that-dont-make-any-sense/Imagine the classroom of the future, where student... ...Technology has developed Engkey, a robot to teach English to youngsters.The 29 robots, about 1m-high with a... ...ian woman, are controlled remotely by teachers of English in the Philippines - who can see and hear the chi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/engkey-the-english-teacherbot-in-korea/(YouTube link) How cool is this? We don't pos... ...wnload, but the dictionaries are $5 each. So far, English to Spanish and Spanish to English are the only dictionaries available. It works wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/17/word-lens/How well do you use apostrophes? Test yourself with this simple 10 sentence quiz. You can check each answer as you go, which may improve your performance on the later sentences. Yes, I guessed all of them correctly, even...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/19/the-apostrophe-quiz/