6 British English Rain Expressions that You Might Hear

Last Friday night, it started raining and it continued to rain right through the whole of Saturday until the early hours of Sunday! I hadn’t seen as much rain as I had last weekend.

You’re probably thinking:  “What is she talking about? It always rains in the UK!” You’re right, but it is very rare to have non-stop rain over a period of over 24 hours.

how to say zero

To most of Business English learners, how to say zero in English is very important to avoid misunderstandings, especially on the telephone or in video conferences. As a non-native speaker, you might say the figure zero as a plain zero which is absolutely fine, but often an English native speaker will use a number of ways to say zero depending on where they are from. So understanding what they mean is important.

Idiom "busy little beaver"

"Blunder" meaning

Blunder meaning. Have you ever heard someone say mistakes are good?  
Oscar Wilde once said: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. 

Idiom "built like a tank"

What Is a Schwa?

The schwa is a vowel sound that appears in unstressed syllables and kind of sounds like "uh." It's also been called the murmur vowel, the indeterminate vowel, the neutral vowel, the obscure vowel, and the natural vowel. This scene from "The Princess Bride" will help you understand the schwa.

'I couldn't put in down'

You're talking to your friend about a book that you recently read. It was a really good book,  so you stayed up late every night reading. You say this to your friend to explain why.

I couldn't put it down.