English video lessons by great nice characters, professional speakers and famous authors by the world of English blog, that is to say english-culture.com.
Learning English takes time and patience. This video lesson explains how to learn English and why it is important to have some English skills. There are many aspects to English – grammar, spelling, pronunciation, word definition and keep always well in mind that repetition and perseverance are the mother of all skills!
Enjoy living in the moment but remember that learning English will prepare you for the future in order to reach our ending point of non return, because as T.S. Eliot said: “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from; or otherwise: the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
Language is “the infinite use of finite means.”
Wilhelm von Humboldt
We all live in a small unique world, that’s why we need at least one sole common language.
Carl William Brown
The limits of my language are the limits of my world.?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is no such thing as ”the Queen’s English.” The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!
Mark Twain
English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway.
Author Unknown
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
Samuel Johnson
A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.
George Mikes
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
Hilaire Belloc
Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.
E.M. Delafield
People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would never dream of telling you the truth.
George Mikes
We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any.
Russell Baker
A futuristic and surrealistic thinker is an artist who can enjoy both the deep sorrow of the real death in life and the feeble pleasure of an unreal life in death.
Carl William Brown
Imaginative literature in the service of rebellion, or satanism, quickly sinks into exhibitionism or obscurity. Imaginative literature as the expression of a deeply apprehended truth, poetry which interprets to a man the myth of his own age, can in the hands of Dante, of Shakespeare, of Cervantes, of Camoes and of Goethe, help to raise the level of a whole civilization.
J. M. Cohen
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston S. Churchill
Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.
Carl William Brown
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them….I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon’s teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
John Milton
