Learning English Idioms

By Kris Ramonda on AppTrack Ninja.

Metaphor through pictures

Idioms can be hard to understand, even after you learn what they mean. You can learn that a sitting duck means a person with no protection against attack, and still wonder: what do ducks have to do with it? When an idiom seems to make no sense, it is hard to remember. Pictures can help learners remember the meaning of new words, but idioms, with their many parts and the metaphors inside them, need pictures that are crafted with special care. Research shows that pictures work in both directions: the right picture keeps the meaning in memory, and the wrong picture can keep a mistake there inste…

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