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LEARN ENGLISH ONLINE. REALLY USEFUL GRAMMAR AND LEXICAL TIPS. PRONUNCIATION. Cliche Finder. Have you been searching for just the right cliché to use? Are you searching for a cliché using the word "cat" or "day" but haven't been able to come up with one? Just enter any words in the form below, and this search engine will return any clichés which use that phrase... Over 3,300 clichés indexed! What exactly is a cliche? This is Morgan, creator of the Cliche Finder. Or, you might like my crazy passion project: Spanish for Nerds: Learning Spanish via Etymologies! Back to cliches... if you would like to see some other Web sites about clichés?

© S. Special thanks to Damien LeriAnd to Mike Senter Morgan's Web page. Visuwords™ online • Visual Dictionary, Visual Thesaurus. Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes. (Photo: Dustin Diaz) How much more could you get done if you completed all of your required reading in 1/3 or 1/5 the time? Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement—period. This post is a condensed overview of principles I taught to undergraduates at Princeton University in 1998 at a seminar called the “PX Project.” The below was written several years ago, so it’s worded like Ivy Leaguer pompous-ass prose, but the results are substantial. In fact, while on an airplane in China two weeks ago, I helped Glenn McElhose increase his reading speed 34% in less than 5 minutes.

I have never seen the method fail. The PX Project The PX Project, a single 3-hour cognitive experiment, produced an average increase in reading speed of 386%. It was tested with speakers of five languages, and even dyslexics were conditioned to read technical material at more than 3,000 words-per-minute (wpm), or 10 pages per minute. The Protocol 1) Trackers and Pacers (to address A and B above) Movie Trailers: Free EFL / ESL Listening exercises. How to Teach Yourself Anything in Less Than Three Months. Self-education can be wonderful and frustrating at the same time. If you go about it correctly, you can teach yourself anything in just a few months. Poorly applied, however, self-education can be a stressful nightmare. I’d like to share my tips to achieve the former and avoid the latter. My self-education has been fairly extensive.

I taught myself how to program computers, create graphics (3-D and 2-D), how to design web pages and blog. Self-education is good for just about any branch of knowledge or skills you want to acquire. Learn a new language. Learning something in only three months takes a bit more than casual trial-and-error. Know the end. This website is supported, in part, by affiliate arrangements (usually Amazon). Debate is fine, flaming is not.