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    Copyright © 2004 by Language Success Press

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or
    by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and
    retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher.

    First Edition

    ISBN 0-9725300-3-7
    Library of Congress Control Number: 2004102958

    Visit our website: www.languagesuccesspress.com

    Bulk discounts are available. For information, please contact:

    Language Success Press


    2232 S. Main Street #345
    Ann Arbor, MI 48103
    USA

    E-mail: [email protected]
    Fax: (303) 484-2004 (USA)

    Printed in the United States of America

    The author is very grateful to the following people for their


    collaboration and advice while preparing this book and CD set:
    Vijay Banta, Jacqueline Gillett, Thomas Gillett, Marcy Carreras,
    John McDermott, Natasha McDermott, Cat McGrath, Patrick
    O'Connell.
    ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    Amy Gillett has taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in
    Stamford, Connecticut and in Prague, Czech Republic. Her essays
    and humor writing have appeared in many publications, including
    MAD Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Family Circle.
    Amy majored in Slavic Languages and Literature at Stanford Uni­
    versity and holds a Master's degree from Stanford in Russian and
    Eastern European Studies.

    Amy has studied and worked abroad in many countries and speaks
    several foreign languages, including Russian, Czech, French, and
    Italian. She is also the author of Speak English Like an American
    for Native Spanish Speakers, Speak English Like an American for
    Native Russian Speakers, and Speak English Like an Americanfor
    Native Japanese Speakers.

    ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR


    Manny Jose is an illustrator and graphic designer who has been
    doodling and sketching for as long as he can remember. He is
    from Toronto, Canada and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
    For more of Manny's illustrations, visit www.mannytoons.com.
    ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    Amy Gillett has taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in
    Stamford, Connecticut and in Prague, Czech Republic. Her essays
    and humor writing have appeared in many publications, including
    MAD Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Family Circle.
    Amy majored in Slavic Languages and Literature at Stanford Uni­
    versity and holds a Master's degree from Stanford in Russian and
    Eastern European Studies.

    Amy has studied and worked abroad in many countries and speaks
    several foreign languages, including Russian, Czech, French, and
    Italian. She is also the author of Speak English Like an American
    for Native Spanish Speakers, Speak English Like an American for
    Native Russian Speakers, and Speak English Like an Americanfor
    Native Japanese Speakers.

    ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR


    Manny Jose is an illustrator and graphic designer who has been
    doodling and sketching for as long as he can remember. He is
    from Toronto, Canada and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
    For more of Manny's illustrations, visit www.mannytoons.com.
    If you already speak some English and now would like to speak
    more like a native, you've found the right book. One of the keys
    to speaking like a native is the ability to use and understand casual
    expressions, or idioms. American English is full of idioms. You
    won't learn these expressions in a standard textbook. But you will
    hear them all the time in everyday conversations. You'll also meet
    them in books, newspapers, magazines, and TV shows. This book
    will help you understand and use idioms better. It contains over 300
    of today's most common idioms.

    Idioms add color to the language. Master idioms and your speech
    will be less awkward, less foreign. You'll also understand more of
    what you read and hear. Often a student of English tries to translate
    idioms word-for-word, or literally. If you do this, you can end up
    asking, "What could this possibly mean?" This is why idioms are
    difficult: they work as groups of words, not as individual words. If
    you translate each word on its own, you'll miss the meaning and
    in many cases end up with nonsense.

    As an example, let's take one of the idioms presented in this book:


    "out of this world." This expression is often used to describe deli­
    cious food. If you have a party and you serve a delicious chicken
    dish, your American friend might tell you, "This chicken is out of
    this world!" Start translating the expression word-for-word and
    you'll have to ask yourself: "What world is it in?" and "Why is she
    even commenting on the chicken being in a world, any world?"

    Here's another example. Let's say you're on a tennis team. Your


    team has won every single game for the past six months. You could
    tell your friend this without using an idiom: "Our team is lucky

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