Automatic translators and translation dictionaries are easier to access than ever. Many are available online. It seems like a quick search is all you need to translate text from one language to another. Watch out, though — automatic translators sometimes make mistakes. They sometimes translate idiomatic expressions literally. Sometimes when there is more than one […]
Category: Idiomatic Expressions
Idioms from Transportation: What do they mean and where do they come from?
Correctly using idiomatic expressions makes you sound more like the natives no matter what language you are trying to speak. Learning them can be tricky, though, because you often can’t guess the meaning of an idiom from the words. Trying to remember idioms as random sets of words is not very interesting or productive. The […]
Nautical Idioms in English, Part 2: What Do They Mean and Where Did They Come from?
Correctly using idiomatic expressions makes you sound more like the natives no matter what language you are trying to speak. Learning them can be tricky, though, because you often can’t guess the meaning of an idiom from the words. Trying to remember idioms as random sets of words is not very interesting or productive. The […]
Nautical Idioms in English, Part 1: What Do They Mean and Where Did They Come from?
Correctly using idiomatic expressions makes you sound more like the natives no matter what language you are trying to speak. Learning them can be tricky, though, because you often can’t guess the meaning of an idiom from the words. Trying to remember idioms as random sets of words is not very interesting or productive. The […]