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Hawaii Advanced English
Resources for Continuing to Improve Your English
NPR delivers breaking national and world news. Also top stories from business, politics, health, science, technology, music, arts and culture. NPR is National Public Radio and is a wealth of material for listening to everything in English. There are thousands of podcasts and radio programs that will help you with new vocabulary, grammar and of course, intonation and stress for pronunciation.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It has hundreds of video presentations in English with Russian or English subtitles (if you want) and also an interactive transcription that you can follow along with also. It’s a great resource for the same reasons I mentioned about NPR.
You can join or start a practice group for any level of English (and many other languages as well) for free here. Most are non-native speakers like yourself trying to improve their English.
Thousands of podcasts for endless hours of learning, practicing and listening.
Quizlet makes simple learning tools that let you study anything, for free. It’s the vocabulary app we’ve been using in class and it is also completely free for students. There are many ways to practice and test yourself about English or any other subject efficiently.
News Websites
English Learning Websites
Rachel’s English - www.rachelsenglish.com and of course her YouTube Channel for helping with your pronunciation and intonation.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
What does the term "inside baseball" mean?
According to Wikipedia the metaphor "inside baseball" means:
The phrase "inside baseball" refers to a detail-oriented approach to the minutiae of a subject, which in turn requires such a specific knowledge about what is being discussed that the nuances are not understood or appreciated by outsiders.[1]
The term is typically applied to discussions of science, technology, entertainment, business, law, politics, or related subjects of which the public has some general knowledge, but whose inner workings do not need to be known in order to understand the concept as a whole. For example, a film critic may write a movie review using insider jargon, or information which regular movie goers would have little knowledge of or even interest in (such as citing the director's previous themes expressed in their movies in relation to the one being reviewed, because of the director's fascination with a particular school of filmmaking).
Its derivation is from a style of baseball play that emphasizes using small, unexciting tactics rather than more dramatic efforts.
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
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