chicken-run123
29-11-2002, 03:45 PM
Well, English has been broken into many parts. There are British English, American English, Australian English, .... As the language has been developed on too many parts of the world, there are thousands of slangs using in English Speakers' conversation.
For me, still in the gap between English as Second Language speaker to English speaker, I use slang nearly every hour when I am at school. Instead of say " Hi", "Hello" to my friends, I usually use " What's up, dude?" or "What's up, buddy?". This seems to be far less formal but very friendly when I meet some one on the campus. In this thread, I would like to introduce you into world of American slang. Notice that, most America use slang everyday, regardless of who they are. And slangs are even used in the media. e.g: CNN uses Nuke for Nuclear Weapon,
Sometimes I use slang with my professor. e.g: "it is so cool" to show my hapiness when my professor helps me solve a hard but interesting homework problem.
For those who are preparing for TOEFL this is very helpful. As I experienced, there are so many slangs that are used in the listening part. The reason why is TOEFL listening conversations or lectures are taken from real situations around US university campuses, where slang is popular as hell :)) .
Hope your guys enjoy this.
As I know here, at least Sharky, Dactanhan, Phuong Nam, Admin can help us build up our slang vocabulary from Australian English. Guys, please join us!
Well, here you are, the very basic slangs in the US:
- cool: excellent; superb. ( American can live with out any slang but this. Because it is so cool)----->this is extremly abused in America. People try to be "cool" anytime any where.-0------->
"Dave's ESL Cafe is totally cool!"
- awesome: great and impressive.
"Dave's ESL Cafe is truly awesome!"
- bitch [offensive] (2): complain.
"Stop bitching and finish your homework!"
- bull: bullTừ Vi Phạm; lie.
"That's a bunch of bull!"
- bullTừ Vi Phạm [offensive]: lie; honesty.
"I don't like people that bullTừ Vi Phạm me"
-chicken: coward.
"Don't be such a chicken!"
-crap [offensive] (1): something worthless.
"My furniture is a bunch of cheap crap."
-crap [offensive] (2): excrement.
"Yuck! I stepped on dog crap!"
-crap [offensive] (3): falsehoods and lies.
"I've had enough of your crap."
- dirt: extremely bad person.
"My ex-boyfriend was dirt."
- dude: a male.
"That's really cool, dude!"
- geek: someone who works too hard, is more intelligent than usual, and is slightly unattractive.
"Bill Gates is kind of a geek."
- hot (1): popular.
"Brad Pitt is really hot now."
hot (2): y.
"Wow! Cindy Crawford is really hot!"
-I.D.: identification.
"If you want to order a beer, you'll need your I.D."
-megabucks: a large amount of money.
"It takes megabucks to live in Japan."
- nuke (1): nuclear weapon.
"This world had too many nukes."
-pee: to urinate.
"I always have to pee after drinking beer."
- piss: to urinate.
"My dog pissed on me!"
-pissed (off): angry; upset.
"I'm really pissed (off) at you."
Souce: http://www.eslcafe.com/slang/list.html
for more slang, please go to:
http://www.eslcafe.com/slang/list.html
For me, still in the gap between English as Second Language speaker to English speaker, I use slang nearly every hour when I am at school. Instead of say " Hi", "Hello" to my friends, I usually use " What's up, dude?" or "What's up, buddy?". This seems to be far less formal but very friendly when I meet some one on the campus. In this thread, I would like to introduce you into world of American slang. Notice that, most America use slang everyday, regardless of who they are. And slangs are even used in the media. e.g: CNN uses Nuke for Nuclear Weapon,
Sometimes I use slang with my professor. e.g: "it is so cool" to show my hapiness when my professor helps me solve a hard but interesting homework problem.
For those who are preparing for TOEFL this is very helpful. As I experienced, there are so many slangs that are used in the listening part. The reason why is TOEFL listening conversations or lectures are taken from real situations around US university campuses, where slang is popular as hell :)) .
Hope your guys enjoy this.
As I know here, at least Sharky, Dactanhan, Phuong Nam, Admin can help us build up our slang vocabulary from Australian English. Guys, please join us!
Well, here you are, the very basic slangs in the US:
- cool: excellent; superb. ( American can live with out any slang but this. Because it is so cool)----->this is extremly abused in America. People try to be "cool" anytime any where.-0------->
"Dave's ESL Cafe is totally cool!"
- awesome: great and impressive.
"Dave's ESL Cafe is truly awesome!"
- bitch [offensive] (2): complain.
"Stop bitching and finish your homework!"
- bull: bullTừ Vi Phạm; lie.
"That's a bunch of bull!"
- bullTừ Vi Phạm [offensive]: lie; honesty.
"I don't like people that bullTừ Vi Phạm me"
-chicken: coward.
"Don't be such a chicken!"
-crap [offensive] (1): something worthless.
"My furniture is a bunch of cheap crap."
-crap [offensive] (2): excrement.
"Yuck! I stepped on dog crap!"
-crap [offensive] (3): falsehoods and lies.
"I've had enough of your crap."
- dirt: extremely bad person.
"My ex-boyfriend was dirt."
- dude: a male.
"That's really cool, dude!"
- geek: someone who works too hard, is more intelligent than usual, and is slightly unattractive.
"Bill Gates is kind of a geek."
- hot (1): popular.
"Brad Pitt is really hot now."
hot (2): y.
"Wow! Cindy Crawford is really hot!"
-I.D.: identification.
"If you want to order a beer, you'll need your I.D."
-megabucks: a large amount of money.
"It takes megabucks to live in Japan."
- nuke (1): nuclear weapon.
"This world had too many nukes."
-pee: to urinate.
"I always have to pee after drinking beer."
- piss: to urinate.
"My dog pissed on me!"
-pissed (off): angry; upset.
"I'm really pissed (off) at you."
Souce: http://www.eslcafe.com/slang/list.html
for more slang, please go to:
http://www.eslcafe.com/slang/list.html