Everything English - English Language

This group is about Everything English, starting with the English language, and going on with English (both British and American) culture, tradions and history to English food and wine (yes, also in Britain you can find vinyards!) to English art and travel.

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English Language

featured lens Learn To Speak English

Learn To Speak English - English is the economically most important language in the world. there are other languages that have as many or maybe even more speakers, but when it comes to the economy, English is the leading language. To learn to speak En...

featured lens Learn English

Learn English by listening to MP3 audio files prepared by Pimsleur. There is nothing more easy to learn English than using these language audio books! English is a world language, and if you want to be able to communicate with people anywhere on the...

featured lens Pimsleur Method

The Pimsleur Method is named after Paul Pimsleur,  (1928 to 1972) who was an authority in the field of applied linguistics with a Ph.D. in French and a master's degree in psychological statistics from Columbia University. At Ohio State Universit...

featured lens Learn English Language

To learn the English Language is a lot easier than you think! You can learn English in a few weeks. With the Pimsleur method you will be speaking and understanding English in a short time. This can be achieved with little effort. Just listening to th...

featured lens Pimsler - Pimsleur

The Pimsler Spanish Learning System is extremely easy to use and brings results fast.  Pimsleur has developed a system that lets you learn by just listening to the audio and your brain does the rest! By the way: You got here by using the search...

English Politics

featured lens Winston Churchill Biography

Winston Churchill won The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953. He was born on 30 November 1874 at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire and he died on 24 January 1965 28 Hyde Park Gate, London He studied at  Harrow (1888) and Royal Military College, Sandhurst...

American Politics

featured lens Martin Luther King Biography

Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize 1964. He did most probably more for the end of racial discriminaton than any other man. Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later changed his n...

featured lens Hillary Clinton Biography

Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 26, 1947 at Edgewater Hospital - Chicago - Illinois. She was raised in a Methodist family in Park Ridge, Illinois. During the 1992 presidential campaign, she observed : "Our lives are a mixture of different...

featured lens Thomas Jefferson Biography

  Thomas Jefferson  Third President of the United States 1743 - 1826 Born: April 13, 1743 in Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia. Died: July 4, 1826 in Monticello in Virginia on the 50tz anniversary of the Declaration of Independence...

English Literature

featured lens Agatha Christie Audio Books

Agatha Christie Audio Books are a great way to enjoy the special charm and the British touch of Christie's so well written detective stories. Having a skilled narrator read the adventures of Miss Marple to you makes the stories even beter than when y...

featured lens Audio Books Free Download

Audio Books Free Download - The Free Audiobooks offered by almost all online audio book stores are a lot of fun: You get audios for free because the store wants to provide its customers the possibility to test the system of their shop, the compatabil...

featured lens Top 10 Audio Books

There is certainly more tha one top 10 audio books list, but here's mine: I love audio books and am constantly travelling with at least two or three on my MP3 player. I use audio books to learn languages and I'm using audio books to simply relax. Wh...

featured lens Charles Dickens Audio Books

Charles Dickens audio books are an excellent way to get to know this classic author with his epic novels. His books provide a great study of the conditions in which people lived in his time: In the 19th century, when Britain was the major economic a...

Jobs - Work at Home

featured lens Job Interview Questions and Answers

"Job Interview Questions and Answers" can make THE big difference. It can decide if you get that coveted job or if fail the interview and get coldly rejected! Preparing well for a job interview is a MUST. I'll try to help you prepare by rec...

featured lens Teacher Jobs

More Teacher Jobs are going to be offered over the next two decades. But already now there are many very interesting postions open. We list dayly the best open positions for teachers in the U.S.A. Bookmark this page and consult it once a day, you're s...

featured lens Work From Home

To work from home is a great way to earn money. You spend time with your family, don't have to comute anymore, and you decide the working hours. If you start off the right way, you can reach incomes that are mulitples of normal employment jobs. That...

English Music

featured lens Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse is an upcoming British Jewish soul, jazz and R&B singer and songwriter. Amy received her first guitar at age 13. By age 16, she was singing professionally. Some people compare her voice with the voices of  Sarah Vaughan and Mac...

featured lens Queen Rock Band

The Queen Rock Band was founded in 1970 in London, initially there were Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor and one year later John Deacon joined the band. They are considered to be one of the most accomplished and refined rock acts to ever...

featured lens The Beatles Lyrics

My first record ever was "Hey Jude" by "The Beatles". Their music has been with me throughout my youth, and it was great!   The Beatles are most likely the most famous pop band of all times. The band members were John Lennon, P...

featured lens Karaoke

Karaoke - singing like the stars! Using a Karaoke machine, you can actually perform just like the big stars. The prompter screen feeds you the text to your song, and the music track delivers the background music. Great fun, in bars, at parties and eve...

featured lens Guitar Tabs

Guitar Tabs make reading music and playing it on the guitar much easier than the conventional musical notation that leaves a guitar player alone to develop his own cord technique. Especially beginners love the ease with which guitar tabs can be put in...

UK Travel

featured lens 10 Places to See in the UK Before You Die

The UK may be small, but it's full of a variety of amazing places stretching right from John O'Groats to Lands End, Belfast to St Davids. It has a wealth of history, culture, wildlife and it's own unique eccentricities. Here are some of the most iconi...

featured lens Slough, Berkshire, England

Slough is a town in the county of Berkshire in the south-east of England, approximately 20 miles to the west of London. Slough suffers from an "image problem" courtesy of an infamous poem about Slough by Sir John Betjeman and the antics of the ficti...

featured lens The Last Drop, Edinburgh

The Last Drop is a traditional Scottish pub in the centre of Edinburgh's historical Old Town, to be found at 74/78, The Grassmarket, near The Royal Mile. It is a place of wooden beams, a friendly atmosphere, fine ales and quality food. The...

British Railway History

featured lens Brunel's Great Western Railway

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Great Western Railway was designed to be one of the fastest of its time. The railway was built on a wide gauge of 7 feet known as "broad gauge", designed to increase speed and passenger comfort, and it was jo...

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