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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Tips to Practice Your Pronunciation for Free

Try to practice your pronunciation with google translate help. follow the instruction below or you can do some think like the following tips:

  1. Go to google translate site (www. translate . google. com).
  2. set the language from english to english.
  3. write your sentence that will practice to speaking up.
  4. speak up slowly by reading the sentence in the translate box.
  5. check your speaking (your pronunciation) by clicking "listen" button.
  6. repeat your practice until your pronunciation same with google translate pronunciation.
Try this sentence:
My name is Tatan. I have Motorcycles. I have two Motorcycles. I have automatic transmission Motorcycle. I have manual transmission Motorcycle. My Motorcycle have the same color. my Motorcycle color is black. I like block color.

have a nice practice! And good luck!

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

As, Because and Since (reason)


As/because/since + clause + clause
Clause + As/Because/Since + clause

1.       Because is used when we give the reason for something
Because I was ill for six months I lose my jobs
If the reason is the most important idea, we put it at the end  of the sentence
Why am I leaving? I am Leaving because I am fed up!
2.       As and Since are used when the reason is not the most important idea in the sentence, or when it is already known. Since is more formal.
As- and Since-clauses often come at beginning of then sentence.
As it’s raining again, we shall have to stay at home;
Since he had not paid his bill, his electricity was cut off.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Off someone

Slang English From englishbaby

1. Definition = kill someone

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

Here’s some advice: if anyone ever says he’s going to off you, start running. To off someone means to kill someone.

Recently, a rumor spread the over internet that Zach Braff had committed suicide by swallowing too many pills. When Braff says he wouldn’t off himself with pills, he means he wouldn’t kill himself that way. He jokes that he’d do it by banging himself over the head with pots and pans instead.

Killing is one of those things that isn’t very pleasant to talk about directly. So a lot of different words, or euphemisms, have been developed to refer to it indirectly. Someone could say he’s going to take you out, do you in, take care of you, or terminate you. It all means the same thing. Run.

Some of the most colorful euphemisms for killing were developed by (who else?) gangsters in the 1930s. To put someone in cement boots doesn’t mean to provide someone with unusual footwear. It means to weigh someone down with concrete after killing him, so that when he’s tossed underwater his body won’t come floating back up to the surface.

Examples

Zach Braff makes a joke about the rumor someone spread that he’d killed himself. But gossip can be hurtful. Has anyone ever spread a false rumor about you?

“My brother said he’d off me if I ever touched his iPhone again.”

“He may be a criminal, but he would never off someone for no reason. “

“I can’t believe Omar got offed on The Wire. He was my favorite character.”

“Don’t move or I’ll off you.”