Introduction

One of the keys to speak like a native is the ability to use and understand casual expressions, or idioms. American English is full of idioms. You won't learn these expressions in a standard textbook. But you will hear them all the time in everyday conversations. You'll also meet them in books, newspapers, magazines, and TV shows. This blog will help you understand asnd use idioms better. It contains over 300 of today's most common idioms.

Idioms add color to the language. Master idioms and your speech will be less awkward, less foreign. You'll also understand more of what you read and hear. Often a student of English tries to translate idioms word-for-word, or literally. If you do this, you can end up asking, "What could this possibly mean?" This is why idioms are difficult: they work as groups of words, not as individual words. If you translate each word on its own, you'll miss the meaning and in many cases end up with nonsense.
As an example, let's take one of the idioms presented in this blog: "out of this world". This expression is often used to describe delicious food. If you have a party and you serve a delicious chicken dish, your American friend might tell you, "This chicken is out of this world!" Start translating the expressions word-for-word and you'll have to ask yourself: "what world is it in?" and "why is she even commenting on the chicken being in a world, any world?"

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To learn from the songs, however, you must do more than read the translations we have provided for you. You must master the songs in the original, paying atention to how the sounds make the words, how the words make the thoughts, and how the thoughts reflect British and American cultures.

However, these songs also provide examples of an informal spoken English that one rarely finds in textbooks. Indeed, within these songs you will find informal expressions, vocabulary, and even grammatical structures which will help you to understand everyday spoken English.

We recommend that, after satisfying your natural curiosity to read what the songs say in your own language, you read through a whole song in English as you listen. Don't jump from the English to the Spanish translation, worrying about every unfamiliar word.

Instead, try to understand as much as you can form the English alone. This will help you become familiar with the "flow" of English. You can figure out unfamiliar words later with the help of our translations and your own dictionary. Good luck and have fun!

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