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04 07 2009

Linguee.de

Posted by Christine in Dictionaries, Vocabulary/Phrases, tags: Dictionary, Linguee, Phrases, Words

According to its authors’, you can use Linguee.de to “search for words and expressions in many millions of bilingual texts in English and German. Every expression is accompanied by useful additional information and suitable example sentences.” I looked up the phrase “thank you for your” and came up with some nice examples…

20 06 2009

It’s a dog’s life

Posted by Christine in Audio, Language, VOANews.com, Vocabulary/Phrases, tags: Audio, Idioms, Phrases, VOANews, Vocabulary

Read the VOANews.com’s report on dog-related expressions and listen to the MP3 file.

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