My fellow Buckeye, Alice from Ohio has been teaching up some slang. She wrote:
More American Slang Cheesy (adj.): Cheap, tacky. "A cheesy pick-up line", "A cheesy song", etc.
A pick-up line is something that you say to someone so that they become interested in you romantically.
The cheesiest pick-up line that I've ever heard someone actually use is
Has anyone ever told you that you have beautiful eyes?
What is the cheesiest pick-up line that you have ever heard?
Please remember that our sensitive ears can't handle overt sexuality. :)
I learned something interesting from my Russian student the other day. In English, hypochondriacs are people who are extremely worried about their health. Frequently these people are coming up with some horrible new disease that they are most assuredly dying from. However, the equivalent word in Russian means someone who always pretends to be sick, but is not really sick at all. That way the person can stay home from work with a valid excuse.
How is the word hypochondriac or its equivalent used in your culture?
What have you found to be the best way to learn phrasal verbs in English? Tell us your success stories and your failures. Do you learn phrasal verbs randomly? Or do you group all the phrasal verbs that include put, for example, in the same group and learn all of them together? ( e.g. to put on, to put out, to put up with...) Do you include a sample sentence with each different meaning of a particular phrasal verb? What method do you actually use to learn the meanings? Do you have flash cards that look like this, for example? Or do you use an entirely different method?
He puts out the cat. (=to place outside or allow to go outside)
He puts out the campfire= (to extinguish)
He puts out the trays of cookies. = (to set out on a table to be served to guests)
He puts out the lights. = (to flick off the switch)
"You're going too fast!"
"You need to get over one lane!"
"You're not supposed to drive over that white line on the side of the road!"
"Don't run over that pedestrian!"
"You see the red light, don't you?"
In English, if someone insists upon telling you how to drive, we call that person a back seat driver.
Give us the phrase you use in your native language, and translate it into English for us.
This is an interesting article about the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami. There are a few grammatical errors. For example, this author always confuses "to lie" and "to lay."
<a href="http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/01/tsunami-ghosts-strange-hauntings-in-the-wake-of-japans-big-disaster/">http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/01/tsunami-ghosts-strange-hauntings-in-the-wake-of-japans-big-disaster/</a>
Since it's getting to be that time of year, share some of your favorite holiday songs with everyone on italki. Here are a few of my favorites:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXzJqRXLI08">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXzJqRXLI08</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Xecxu-Au0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Xecxu-Au0</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_MGWio-vc&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_MGWio-vc&feature=youtu.be</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRP8d7hhpoQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRP8d7hhpoQ</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14mFabPxk80">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14mFabPxk80</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFBIJgkj_-g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFBIJgkj_-g</a>
