clever comma

It isn't easy holding complex sentences together (just ask a conjunction or a subordinate), but the clever little comma can help lighten the load.

Everyday Idioms - made easy

Idioms in cartoons

Famous English Proverbs

Proverbs in great cartoons

 

Fiasco!

 gee, it was good...

Stories of when things go wrong. Really wrong. When you leave the normal realm of human error, fumble, mishap, and mistake and enter the territory of really huge breakdowns. Fiascos. Things go so awry that normal social order collapses.

Cheer this holy season!

For  all the English learning fans: Cheer this holy season! 
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Santaland Diaries

The diaries are about David's two Christmas seasons working as an elf in Macy's department store on New York's Herald Square. When it was first broadcast, it generated more requests for tapes than any story in Morning Edition's history except the death of Red Barber (http://www.thisamericanlife.org)