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Today we work on some English idioms, that are worth knowing. Native English speakers often use idioms because they help shorten a conversation. You can explain a lot with a relatively short idiom. The list of English idioms is always growing, but you don’t need to know them all. You need to know the ones that are being used today, the most popular ones, the tricky ones that are not obvious when you first hear them. So do you want to avoid that tricky moment when someone uses an idiom and you’re completely lost?
✔Lesson transcript: https://adeptenglish.com/lessons/english-idioms-red-rag-bull/
As an English language learner, you can expect to come across idioms a lot, especially in everyday conversations, or newspapers, where people are trying to say a lot in a short amount of time. So you definitely need to work on them to level up your English fluency.
Lucky you, we are here to help you with idioms! We try to cover idioms that are being used right now in the UK, usually idioms we hear on the radio, or TV or read in a newspaper in 2023. So idioms that are worth learning because there is a strong likelihood you will encounter them in conversations.
It’s definitely worth filtering idioms. You don’t want to go on the internet and search for 500 English idioms and start learning them from the top. Idioms come and go. You will find we native English speakers just don’t use a lot of the idioms you find in those 500 list internet blogs any more. They fall out of fashion or they get used less because they are no longer relevant, or they are stuck to a particular age group or generation.
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Today we work on some English idioms, that are worth knowing. Native English speakers often use idioms because they help shorten a conversation. You can explain a lot with a relatively short idiom. The list of English idioms is always growing, but you don’t need to know them all. You need to know the ones that are being used today, the most popular ones, the tricky ones that are not obvious when you first hear them. So do you want to avoid that tricky moment when someone uses an idiom and you’re completely lost?
✔Lesson transcript: https://adeptenglish.com/lessons/english-idioms-red-rag-bull/
As an English language learner, you can expect to come across idioms a lot, especially in everyday conversations, or newspapers, where people are trying to say a lot in a short amount of time. So you definitely need to work on them to level up your English fluency.
Lucky you, we are here to help you with idioms! We try to cover idioms that are being used right now in the UK, usually idioms we hear on the radio, or TV or read in a newspaper in 2023. So idioms that are worth learning because there is a strong likelihood you will encounter them in conversations.
It’s definitely worth filtering idioms. You don’t want to go on the internet and search for 500 English idioms and start learning them from the top. Idioms come and go. You will find we native English speakers just don’t use a lot of the idioms you find in those 500 list internet blogs any more. They fall out of fashion or they get used less because they are no longer relevant, or they are stuck to a particular age group or generation.
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