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01 Mar

The second anniversary of LEfF

Terry Lee

Hello, my friends! How have you been? I am excited to announce that today is the second anniversary of LEfF (Learning English from Friends). This is my 277th post. Time does fly, don’t you think?

Over the past two years, I have done my best to share my experiences learning new expressions. Most of the expressions that I have written here are the ones that would not be taught in English as a Second Language class but still used by many American people. I really hope my blog has been a helpful resource for all of non-native English speakers out there.

 

Let me start with talking about top five most popular posts.

1. black sheep

2. I really appreciate it

3. native American vs native to America

4. bun in the oven

5. what is your brownie point?

I would like to congratulate all of the friends who taught these top five posts (Brian, Jeff, Andrew, Jean, Alex, Sangeetha and Ari). Speaking of these five, I just realized that my sister-in-law has a bun in the oven. It’s been five months. Let me take a moment to congratulate her and her husband!

LEfF has gotten about 85,000 page views (3,541 per month and 117 per day) in two years and they are from 170 countries. That means LEfF got attractions from almost 90% of the earth. That is amazing, isn’t it? Here are some of the country names that I have never heard of : Djibouti, Guernsey, Martinique,… The list goes on and on.

How about top five countries? Here is the list.

1. United States

2. United Kingdom

3. South Korea

4. Canada

5. Japan

Hey, I have another interesting statistic. Do you know what is the number one browser people have used to get to LEfF? It is not Internet Explorer. It is Firefox. Thank God! Please stop using Internet Explorer. It is horrible. Chrome is the third browser but not far behind IE. You can use Chrome. 🙂 In fact, it is my default browser and I like it a lot.

What else? Oh.. it shows that readers use 105 different languages. My analysis is that people do want to learn new English expressions online.

Thank you all for your visits and support! Because of you, I am so happy to come back to my desk to write new interesting expressions. Don’t worry! It will keep updated. There are so many out there that I still do not know or have never heard of. It is like going down the rabbit hole every day.

Please share new posts with your friends so that many people get to have a chance to learn new ones.

See you soon!

 

01 Mar

The first anniversary of LEfF

Terry Lee

Hello! Hello, my friends and readers out there! Wow! I cannot believe it has been already a year. On March 1, 2010, I decided to take an action on my idea of sharing my experience of learning English from friends. You know what is one of the things most people are not good at. It is an execution of an idea. Well, to be boastful a little here, I think it is safe to say that I am an executer. Also, the other thing people are not really good at is being persistent. Once I decided to do something, I usually do not quit easily. It is so easy to not act on ideas and quit if it does not work well. Why don’t we all try to be changed?

I started with the expressions I just learned at that time and, believe it or not, this is 192nd post. Looking back to March 1, 2010, I was too naive or optimistic because I thought this would not go on and on and on. Apparently, I was totally wrong. In fact, this will never end.

Let’s go on a time machine trip back to the birth of LEfF, shall we?

Here are my first five posts.

1. Pay the piper

2. rob Peter to pay Paul

3. Don’t throw stones when you live in a glass house

4. That’s BS

5. if you’ve got the stones!

Out of these five, I still use one expression frequently. Can you guess what it is? What.. You can’t? That’s BS. Haha.. that’s right. That is the one I still use often. Also, I do remember that there was a controversy over the expression, “Don’t throw stones when you live in a glass house.” If you want to find out what that is, I encourage you to read that post and its comments. It is a very interesting conversation we had back then.

Now, I would like to share some analysis of my blog with you.

During the last year, there have been 33,711 page views (2,810 per month and 93 per day on average). Based on Google Analytics, the views are from 142 countries. As of now, there are approximately 190 countries in the world. That means I got traffics from around 75% of the world. Pretty amazing, isn’t it?

Here are top 5 countries from which I got most of the vitists.

1. United States

2. South Korea

3. United Kingdom

4. Canada

5. Japan

Now, I found another interesting fact. Can you guess what are the most popular expressions? Here are top 5.

1. black sheep

2. bun in the oven

3. I really appreciate it

4. Who is Terry

5. words to describe weather

I personally am surprised by the fact that black sheep is the most popular one so far. Do not know why? I tried to google for “sheep” to find out whether my blog post is on the first page or not. It is not. But, when I tried “black sheep,” my post is actually on the first page. Maybe, people search for the phrase, black sheep, a lot?? It is always interesting to find out how people do engage in specific behaviors. Apparently, people want to know who the heck this guy, Terry, is, right? 🙂

Well, I am very happy to celebrate the first anniversary of LEfF. I would like to spare some time to thank my friends, Andrew, Phil, Kelly, Ari, Jean, Carol, Jake, Patrick, Alex, Jessy, James, Mark, Kara, Julie, Patty, Mike, Jason, Stan, Pete, Ashika, Byung, Emmie, and Clarissa. I feel like I am doing my acceptance speech for Academy Award. So, let me stop here. It gets boring. 🙂

Hope you have laughed a lot, reading my posts for the last year! Remember to come back! I promise I will not disappoint you.

Thank you so much for your interest!

Terry

from Pittsburgh