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English Baby!

A visually appealing, dynamic, "hip" site that teaches English using real-world situations. Very slick, very cool, very fun!!

Netlingo

If you can't understand the text messages your American friends are sending you, go to Netlingo to get a comprehensive list of text acronyms and their meanings.

Contemporary Topics

This website contains information about each Contemporary Topics book and the series. There are also valuable student and teacher resources to expand classroom use of the books. The Student Resources section is divided into three levels. Each level has ideas for projects and links to interesting and relevant websites.

AmeriSpeak

An entertaining collection of American idioms, sorted into categories such as Advice & Life Lessons; Aging & Dying; Body Functions & Health; Character Traits; Crazy; and many more!

BuzzWhack

This website is dedicated to clarifying the techno-speak and jargon of modern life. Read the definitions or nominate your own word. Don't you want to know what YOYO, zombience, and document polish mean? Well, look them up on this site!

Slanguage

Find out how different cities in the United States and around the world are described by their locals. For example, you probably already know that Nashville is the "Music City" or "NashVegas" and that tall building downtown is called "The Batman Building."

Common American Slang Expressions

More than 280 slang expressions, sorted alphabetically. Try to guess the meaning before you click the box to check if you were right!