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What does the expression play hardball mean?




What does the expression 'savvy' mean?




What does the expression 'the bottom line' mean?




What does the expression 'number crunching' mean?






What does the expression 'put on the map' mean?






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- I think thanking not enough to say for you teacher for this lesson ..
– but you have all my respect sister ..
– that was helpful for me ..

Saturday, September 12th 2009

you are making me change my decision that to travel to Europe
but now I’ll travel to Toronto to complete study …

if you advice me to do , which collage is better in Toronto

I hope you answer me about that teacher

sultanslife.1990@Hotmail.com

Saturday, September 12th 2009

Thanks for the lesson. You are so beautiful too.

Saturday, September 12th 2009

    thank you so much for the lessons i’m a student and i really don’t like english very much but your lesson are really helping me understand properly. PS. i like your outfits

    Saturday, September 19th 2009Reply to this comment

Thank you for the lesson , I’am a newbie .

Sunday, September 13th 2009

really u are cute and ur teaching is too cute… I love it.

Monday, September 14th 2009

you are amazing. i hope i can be in your class

Monday, September 14th 2009

May be you have small mistake in the quiz knowledg[E]able.

Tuesday, September 15th 2009

THANK YOU FOR THIS LESSON

Wednesday, September 16th 2009

Thank you, for your presentations.
is very useful.
I would like to know the pronunciation of the Irregular Verbs.
Could you help me?

Thursday, September 17th 2009

Valen, thank you for the lesson . Is it possible to say: “If our competitors don’t comply we are going to have to play hardball?

Thursday, September 17th 2009

Greattt…Thank you…
you wrote ” We Hired Makr because he is computer savvy.” why not ” We hired Mark because he is “A” computer Savvy.?
Thank you.

Thursday, September 17th 2009

    “Computer-savvy” is an adjective, not a noun, which is why we cannot use “a” before it. Hope that helps!

    Monday, November 16th 2009Reply to this comment

Great lesson. But I like you much more than any lessons.

Thursday, September 17th 2009

Thanks teacher,
ur teaching is perfect, i like to see ur lessons more and more.

Sunday, September 20th 2009

I did´t understand what Tweak means. Can you explaine the sentence again, please.

Tuesday, September 22nd 2009

Tweak means to retouch a report, to alter it so that it will be better understood or be more concise

Tuesday, September 22nd 2009

i feel very happy when i know this webside.Anyway i want to say thanks to all teacher who teaching all lesson.i will go to this webside to learn every day.

Wednesday, September 30th 2009

FIRST U ARE SO BEAUTIFUL… ALSO UR TEACHING IS REALLY VERY VERY GOOD! I ALSO LIKE UR HAND WRITTING TOO MUCH & SPECAILLY THE LETTER “F”. U WRITE “F” IN DIFFERENT STYLE THAT’S THE REASION I LIKE UR WAY OF TEACHING….. BYE-BYE.. TAKE CARE…! (:-)

Friday, October 2nd 2009

Thanks a lot. It will help me to increasing my English knowledge.
You are so Beautiful.

Sunday, October 4th 2009

Dear Valen,
how are you dear i hope you will be fine healthy, Dear i am very happy that i found such as a wonderful teacher you are gorgeous the way you are teaching i love it so much and i appreciate your feeling that you provide for us such kind of wonderful lessons and i like it very much and i will learn English from you dear. when you read my message you will known how my English is week anyway if there is mistake please forgive me
thanks for your hard word and you doing good job.
i want to contact with you dear all the time and i need your help regarding to learn English. this is my email address seacalm@yahoo.com if you get my message please reply me by your mail address i’m looking forward you
cheers Ahmad

Monday, October 5th 2009

excelent
thank you

Thursday, October 8th 2009

nothing to say
thank you!!!

Thursday, October 8th 2009

Thanks for your excellent lecture!

You are also so beautiful..

Vinh.

Wednesday, October 14th 2009

Thank you very much.You are a great teacher and so beautiful too.And this website is really wonderful and we are in need for such websites.We are waiting for more interesting and important lessons.
And i have a questions: Why didn’t you say ” A savvy computer”? is it because “savvy” is an adjective without a noun?i’m waiting to the answer.

Friday, October 16th 2009

    Yes akram, you are right. The expression “computer-savvy” is an adjective so we don’t use A.

    Monday, November 16th 2009Reply to this comment

thank you so much teacher, my english is not good so I cant hear clearly what you sad, can you speak slowly please! Thanks teacher!

Thursday, October 22nd 2009

    i agree with you but i want something like lyrics or like we see in the films in the bottom of the screen the english words that help us to know what they say

    Monday, October 26th 2009Reply to this comment

it’s my first comment in your wonderful site but i want to suggest new idea for ur website and ur videos
and if you do it
belive me the people who watch ur lectures will be increasing more and more and more
i suggest for all the teachers in this website to make an english text contains ur english talking cause more of us can’t hear you clearly i mean text like lyrics and accompany your videos as we see in films translation in the bottom of the screen
i’m really need it and i think that every one sign in ur site need it and can’t hear u clearly

Monday, October 26th 2009

    I read your opinion. but…
    I don’t think so. (just opinion)
    I think hearing is more important to students than reading.
    If we can read, not listen to, what teachers say, we may not try to listen to teacher.
    and then, we can’t make our hearing ability more powerful.
    so I think it is better to let it be.
    how do you think ?

    Friday, October 30th 2009Reply to this comment

    I also strongly disagree with this proposal. If you can’t hear clearly you should hear this video again and again.

    Friday, May 14th 2010Reply to this comment

i had posted a comment from a short time but i don’t find it now :(
generally i only suggested to accompany ur videos in the engvid site with english texts like we see in the bottom of the film’s tv screen cause i and i think that more of us can’t hear you clearly
the reason of that not from u but because more of us weak in the english language and log in ur site to improve it

Monday, October 26th 2009

hi mam i’m thank ful to u.i’m ganing lot of from ur lectures.u r superb.when will ur new lectures come

Thursday, October 29th 2009

Nice Stuff, Thanks

Thursday, October 29th 2009

hi,i want to thank u for your great teaching,it’s really helpful,i spend most of the time on this site,it’s really useful to English students,i’d be glad and would thank you if u nice teachers get familiar us with more and more common idioms,slang and necessary vocabulary

sincerely yours;
Sarah

Friday, October 30th 2009

HI , thanks for everything you do for us ,you are very helpful ,but there is a problem > when you speak please make us understand sometimes we don’t catch-up all the words you say ,anyway you are doing good job , and i hope you will do a lesson just for speaking because my moth stuck in here . waiting your reply !

Monday, November 2nd 2009

Hi Valen,
Your lessons are really really helpful to me to improve my english language skills.
And you looks pretty cool while teaching that puts me in a joyful mood and never feel boared.

Thanks alot mam , thankyou verymuch…..

Friday, November 6th 2009

Thanks teacher,
ur teaching is perfect, i like to see ur lessons more and more

Monday, November 9th 2009

really helpful.thnx valen.

Wednesday, November 11th 2009

Thank you Valen…..Your Class & You both are nice

Thursday, November 12th 2009

thank you very much, this lesson is so helpful for me…

Sunday, November 15th 2009

Hello,thanks Valen, it was so helpful.

Thursday, November 19th 2009

Thank you teacher Valen,..i have also an example of idioms,..”bring home the bacon”,.which means “to win”

Thursday, November 19th 2009

Dear Valent,
Do you know if all the expressions you mentioned are used in USA also ??? I don’t want to use them with this guys in order to show off I’m aware of business expressions and discover that they are looking at me with a question mark at their forehead !!!!
Thanks a lot for showing a lot of passion during your English classes.

Monday, November 23rd 2009

hi
please give me good book for reading for improve me lunguage
think you

Saturday, November 28th 2009

hi,
it is my first time and iam really excited .I have figure out alot of things that i used to make mistakes.

thanks

Monday, December 7th 2009

your accent is too fast and it’s amazing.. we just having trouble understanding.. as far as i know it’s something to do with liason or word connection.. i wish i could talk as far and as clear like you .. can you teach as your technique on that??? what do you think??

Saturday, December 12th 2009

hi,
your videos have been very helpful and i am really greatful for it. i had seen the videos on youtube and from there i got the address of this awsome website. God bless you! i have taken the notes and really learnt a lot. i am also a good reader of english fiction and read many books both classic and modern fiction. i also helped me in a great way. i want your help regarding improving my vocabulary skill. i will be greatful and obliged if you reply me. any ways thank you very much, you and other teachers of engvib are doing a great job.

Saturday, January 9th 2010

hi,
not he is computer sawy, but he is a computer sawy.

Monday, January 25th 2010

Hi!
I can’t thank you enough. This lesson is a big help for me to deal with business people.

Tuesday, February 2nd 2010

thank you so much for you efforts Jesus bless you

Friday, February 5th 2010

hi valen thanks for perfect lessons can you give us a lesson about passive and active voice

Thursday, February 11th 2010

Thanks a lot Valen I hope helping me in this.

what does (sale pitch) mean?

Tuesday, February 16th 2010

Some times is really very hard but thank you.

Thursday, March 4th 2010

dear Valen
You are an exellent english teacher
I appericiate your courses
your are so beautifle which made the coures more attractive
thank you for your effort, We don’t know how we reward your helf

Thursday, March 18th 2010

HI
YOU CLASS VERY NICE AND VERY USEFULL

Thursday, April 1st 2010

Dear Valen ESl
i don’t know what i want to say thank you
Thank you very much.You are a great teacher and so beautiful too.We are waiting for more interesting and important lessons.
And i have a questions: Why didn’t you say ” A savvy computer”? is it because “savvy” is an adjective without a noun?i’m waiting to the answer.

Thanks & Regars
SHAJIR JAGAYIL
ETISALAT-UAE

Thursday, April 1st 2010

That”s very very good
Idon”t Know how I thank you

Sunday, April 4th 2010

tnx…very helpful..keep up the good works!God bless

Saturday, April 24th 2010

All of your classes are very well organized and great; keep up the good work.

Sunday, April 25th 2010

Btw, is it possible to change this icon thingy? LOL.

Sunday, April 25th 2010

Hi!
We really can`t thank You enough! Your lessons are very usefull! And your teaching way is very interesting! Thank You so much for Your website!
May God bless all of You!

Sunday, May 2nd 2010

Great Leason.Love it!

Monday, May 3rd 2010

I PRAY FOR YOU EVERY DAY
THANKS YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR CLASS.
ITS VERY INTERESTING. I DON’T KNOW ABOUT THIS SITE BEFORE. I AM TOO LATE I THINK SO.

Monday, May 3rd 2010

SAlaam and hello to my respected teacher Valen. I have boosted my confidence in english. Miss Valen has a very good method of teaching. Thanks to http://www.engvid.com for this .

Saturday, May 15th 2010

thank you for lessons and you are beauty enough

Sunday, May 23rd 2010

Dear Valen you and your teaching method are attractive.Thank you so much & have a nice day

Sunday, May 30th 2010

GREETINGS FROM COLOMBIA, THANKS TEACHER YOUR CLASSES ARE VERY USEFUL.

Friday, June 11th 2010

Hello dear Teacher,
Thank you so so much for your good teaching, your are prosperous teacher, i like to listen to your class, wish and hop i liked to attended in your class & one of your student,
regard

Friday, June 18th 2010

your lesson is good. it is easy to understand. thank you

Saturday, June 19th 2010

thanks for all lessons (MOrocco)

Thursday, June 24th 2010

Dear Valan,
Thank You for your lessons. They are very useful. But I have a small question,-Can we say, ” At university we were playing hardball” or else ” We worked as playing hardball”?? I’m confused.please reply.

Monday, June 28th 2010

THANKS A LOT!

Sunday, July 4th 2010
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