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-Your English Tutor

International Hand Gestures

Learning a language doesn't always only involve words...maybe you use hand gestures in your home country that have a very different meaning in different countries. The video above shows this, so does the article you can read here.

Did you ever make a big mistake with body language or hand gestures? Tell us about it in the comments below or by email! (tutor@virtualingua.de) If you are a student with us already, this counts as a tutored exercise, if not, test our tutoring for free!

Happy Valentine's Day

Here is a song that fits the day: It had to be you
Enjoy!

Frank Sinatra & Harry Connick, Jr. - It Had To Be You

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It had to be you, it had to be you
I wandered around, and finally found
The somebody who
Could make me be true,
And could make me be blue
And even be glad, just to be sad
Thinking of you

Some others I've seen,
Might never be mean
Might never be cross,
Or try to be boss
But they wouldn't do
For nobody else, gave me a thrill
With all your faults, I
Love you still
It had to be you, wonderful you
It had to be you

English learning games

Practice your vocabulary with some online games. Click here to visit a site with crossword puzzles you can work on for free.
Have fun!

Üben Sie ihren Wortschatz mit online Spiele! Klicken Sie hier um eine Seite zu besuchen worauf Sie kostenlose englische Kreuzworträtsel für Anfänger machen können.
Viel Spaß!

Introductions in English

Watch a video about introducing yourself, study the phrases and introduce yourself!

Below the video window on the page the link sends you to you can read the transcript of the video. During the video there are also subtitles during the conversation.

Schauen Sie das Video an, lernen Sie die Phrasen, die man auf Englisch verwendet, um sich vorzustellen, und schließlich stellen Sie sich vor!

Auf der Seite, die Sie über den Link erreichen, können Sie den gesprochenen Text im Video mitlesen. Während des Videos gibt es während des Gesprächs auch Untertitel.

Als Tutoraufgabe schreiben Sie eine kurze Vorstellung von sich selbst und schicken Sie es an tutor@virtualingua.de! Wenn Sie bei uns schon lernen, ist diese Aufgabe eine fakultative Tutoraufgabe, sonst können Sie unser Tutoring einmal kostenlos testen!

Free eBooks!

You can download free eBooks in English from Project Gutenberg.
There are thousands of books available and they are really free, with no memberships or registration required.

Go here and start reading:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! Here is a traditional song that is often played and sung on New Year's Eve.

Listen to it and read about it by clicking the links below.

Auld lang syne


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Information and lyrics in German from Wikipedia
Information and lyrics in English from Wikipedia