A Word A Day!! Come Let's Learn

Hello to All who glance thru this thread,

Let me start with my story

I was in India from my childhood till 6 months back where i never had a chance to speak in English. School - very rare, College - Never, Office - very rare (only while interacting with other state ppl/clients)

And i need to stress on this, I never watched English movies a lot while i concentrate more on our regional languages. That's a big minus:thumbsdown I came to US few months back after when i really had interest to speak English with proper accent. My DH used to watch all upcoming movies almost every week.When he asked me to come with him for movies i was never interested since I haven't watched much. Also I used to wonder how ppl are watching Batman kinda movies when it is so unrealistic.Then i got used with the fantasy by slowly watching one Eng movie a day which helped me a lot in learning new words and how Americans interact with each other.

I started noticing and learning new words, Idioms and phrases by watching few English series and movies.
When i started watching English series, I really learned a lot more. For every new word (which i nvr heard) i used to pause, then google search and relate it with the situation so that i can't 4get in future. This way i started learning.

For Ex: I nvr knew the last little finger is called as "Pinky finger" which i started noticing in serials and now i cud hear ppl saying it everywhere.

Ppl might think these are all small concerns but it does really matter to ppl who don't know this.

After started reading books I have got much more to learn.
Now that I have updated all new words in xl sheet so that i can refresh whenever i need. Almost I have crossed tracking 400+ words which i nvr used in my life or nvr knew the meaning of those words.

Here in IL I could see most of the ladies are very fluent in English and it feels good to see the well-versed conversations.

So why can't we discuss a new word each day that we knew and share our knowl to our friends. It will be very useful not only to me but everybody who come across this thread. Whatever the word is don't ever think it is only u but others might know it already. Always feel free to share ur knowledge which will inturn cherish urs:thumbsup

Not only words u can share idioms, pronunciations too..Also you can share the sources from where you learnt. Thanks for your time hugsmiley


PIE IDIOMS: (Idioms using Pie)

1. If something is very easy we could say "It’s as easy as pie"
2. If someone is very drunk we could call "He got pie eyes" or "pie-eyed"
3. If someone is involved in lots of activities we could say "To have a finger in many pies"[TABLE="width: 243"]
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@SaiSakthi

Thanks for the welcome sissy!! I will probably continue in the other thread as @gauri03 and @Aria suggested..

 

@Srama

:rotfl SRK is just the abbreviation of my first and last name With ur super happiness we can rock the EM thread. Hoping to join EM soon. Bye for now :wave