So you are in a party at someone’s home or out with friends in a club. You are dancing, or just sitting and watching your friends dance. It’s a lively rhythmic tune and you start clapping your hands in time with the music. Not bad, not bad at all… But have you ever tried snapping … Continue Reading
Here is a romantic song that you may like. Let’s listen to it once just to enjoy it, and a second time, more carefully, to try and understand it better. You can then test your listening comprehension with the interactive quiz in the English Gym below.
This is a rather common mistake among learners of English. There is a subtle but clear difference between “approve” and “approve of”…
In Hinduism, an avatar is a material manifestation of a deity or god, when the Hindu god comes down to earth in a bodily form. The term is most often associated with Vishnu and his two avatars or incarnations, Rama and Krishna. In Hindu sacred texts, Vishnu is usually described as having dark complexion of … Continue Reading
Here is an old Sinatra song about life and hope and being young at heart, a good tonic to start the days and the weeks with.
Following up on your comments on Brigitte’s post (the changing Iranian society), especially the comments by Reza and Monique, here is an excerpt from the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The father, the indisputable head of the family, is against her daughter going to school downtown and the daughter is exasperated. The mother, however, … Continue Reading
Are cats our pets or our masters who kindly give us the honour of entertaining them in our homes, and what about their nine lives? The myth that cats have “nine lives” has been around for a long time. Even Shakespeare refers to the nine lives myth in his play Romeo and Juliet. There is … Continue Reading
This is a rather confusing issue. I’ll try to explain the difference as clearly as I can…