The ESLPod Blog (page 171)
- Language & Terms
Home Away from Home
The expression home away from home means that the place you are describing is as comfortable as your own house, somewhere you can feel “at home,” and it is usually where you spend a lot of your time.
- Life in the United States
What a Font Says About You
A font is the size and style of printed letters and words, like these:
- Language & Terms
Urban Dictionary
We often get questions about slang words listeners see in the newspaper or (more likely) hear in movies, TV programs, and songs. The problem with slang is that it keeps changing. Words that were…
- About ESL Podcast
ESL Podcast in Malaysian Newspaper The Sun
Thanks to Bill from the University of Malaya for mentioning ESL Podcast in a recent article that appeared in the daily national newspaper, The Sun, in Malaysia. We always appreciate our listeners and…
- Life in the United States
Shoe Store and Bakery?!
We’ve all seen places where two business are run out of the same storefront (outside view or entrance to a store). There are a lot of strange combinations and sometimes it is difficult to see how the…
- Discussing the Episodes
How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?
Last week we published an episode called Mending a Broken Heart about someone who is sad because their boyfriend or girlfriend has left them. Most of us have experienced this at some time in our…
- News and Current Events
Heart and Mind and…Toe? Goooooooool for Espana!
Americans on average don’t watch much professional soccer on television. However, soccer is popular among Spanish-speakers in the U.S. If you want to watch a game of soccer on television, you usually…
- News and Current Events
Headlines: Drilling for Oil
Following up on Lucy’s post yesterday about the cost of traveling and oil, there was a headline today in the New York Times (paper edition) which read “Bush to Seek an End to Ban on Oil Drilling.” I…
- News and Current Events
Trouble for the Airline Industry
The airline industry (business) is in trouble all over the world, and the U.S. is no exception (the same as everyone else).
- Language & Terms
What Does “Fair Enough” Mean?
QUESTION : Keisuke from Japan wrote us an email and asked, “What does “fair enough” mean? I saw people saying it many times in movies but I didn’t understand exactly what it meant.”
