USA Learns - And You Can, Too

http://www.usalearns.org/

I just found out about this site - at a meeting where I learned more cuts may be coming to my school.

Cuts... I am so sick of them!

(What are cuts?



Cuts are when money is cut away from a budget, like slices of cheese are cut away from a block of cheese. Right now, a lot of cuts are happening in California because we are having a lot of budget problems.)



So... back to English... learning it... and free things.

USA Learns is free. And it's great. And it's brought to you by the U.S. Department of Education.

Right now, I wish the US Department of Education could share some money with the California Department of Education - but that is another story.

USA Learns offers you three programs for learning English.

-- English for All
-- Putting English to Work
-- Stories from http://www.cdlponline.org/

I know from experience that these are three excellent programs.

Each programs has videos to watch and exercises to do.

The program will keep track of your scores so you can watch your progress.

What is progress?

Progress means when you move in a positive direction toward something good, positive, something you want.

Progress - when the pro rhymes with bra or ma- is a noun.

Progress - when the pro rhymes with low or sew - is a verb.

At least, that's how we say it here in California, in the USA.

In the UK, in Australia, in Jamaica, in South Africa, in India, in Kenya, in many other places, it's different. I can only tell you the USA Great State of California way.

I know... crazy, crazy English. It makes you crazy, doesn't it?

Yeah, me, too.

But not this website.

It will not make you crazy.

It will help you.

For free!

To learn how to use it, click on Introduction.

A helpful brunette will explain everything to you in English or Spanish.

What is a brunette?

A brunette is a woman with brown hair.

If we say a blonde or a brunette, we mean a woman with yellow hair if she's a blonde or a woman with brown hair if she's a brunette.

Is it always a woman?

Yes.

If we want to talk about a man, we say a blonde man or a man with brown hair.

Why?

Well, since you asked me, I will give you my idea.

I think in this culture and in about one million other cultures, a woman's appearance is very important.

For a man, his income. For a woman, her appearance.

Do I like this? No. But I think this is true.

So when we use appearance words, we are often talking about women. And when we use money words, we are often talking about men.

That's how the world is, right now.

It's a world in a recession, with lots of budget cuts in the Great State of California.

It's a world with a crazy language called English that many people speak and many people want to speak and some people don't want to speak. And so they don't.

But others do.

It's a world with a wonderful free website that helps people learn English.

It's a world with many wonderful people speaking all kinds of many wonderful languages, many of them a little crazy.

Why?

Well, since you asked me...

;-)))

because people are crazy.

People are not logical.

People move and marry each other and take over countries or are taken over by other countries and trade things with each other and do all sorts of other things that make languages change and people change, too.

That is life.

We can complain about it.

Or we can live it.

Or... and is this true for almost everybody? We live while we complain, some a little, some a lot.

Have some fun while you do that, will you?

It's important.