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The great adventure happened one warm  evening in the central square of Budapest called Blaha Lujza Square. I was standing at the bus stop when a foreigner turned to me and asked one of the most frequent questions, 'Excuse me, do you speak English?'

I wasn't a beginner that time. First I had learnt English by myself for a year by the help of a self-teaching book and the CDs belonging to it. I had a pretty good vocabulary and a basic grammar kowledge. Finishing my one-year-program I admitted a cou

Before I get started off I wanna admit that how wonderfully this world had been created .. No matter what religion you follow .. what god you believe in ... We all instinctively are humans .. We might have different types of shapes and sizes .. Thoughts and beliefs .. Hobbies and interests .. A compilation of words reflected in me  and they were spinning around my mind dramatically when I was watching a documentary film that capturing the most splendor natural scenes around the globe .. unfortun

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...One

Nikita's 9 Letters to Captain X...Two

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...Three

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...Four

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...Five

Nikita's 9 Letters to Captain X...Six

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...Seven

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...Eight

Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...Nine

Addition: Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...Series 4

             Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...Series 3

             Nikita's 9 letters to Captain X...Seri

Dear Captain,
Guess who I met today! Guess! Hehehe!

Our gerocomium came a new old grandpa. I know him! It has been a coon's age since he moved away. I've never expected we would meet again and meet at such place.

He is an artist. He writes essays, he plays music, he is a green thumber. His calligraphy is excellent, his landscape painting is dazzling. My chess skill is learnt from him!

He was my neighbor. When I was nine, he moved away for work to another city. I always wanted to mention him to you,

Greetings!

I will share Keynote lessons with other teachers or members of EC who wish to do so.

Mr. Miner

Greetings!

I use Apple's Keynote application to teach English to my students. Some students take lessons one to one, and others take lessons in small groups.

I present the lessons that are on an iPad via a small wifi called an "AppleTV" to HDTV screens. The ATV links to the iPad wirelessly, and to the HDTV via an HDMI cable.

I create the presentations on my Apple iMac. I use DropBox to move the lessons from My computer to the iPad. I usually create my own lessons but I also use the lessons offered

Dear Heart,

It's my duty to inform you that our nervous system becomes overwrought , when you allow your self to feel hurt by every small thing will happens.

Stop it.. now

Your Brain

Dear Brain,

If you don't allow your self to feel emotions , it can make you sick

Sorry i can't stop feeling and u can't stop figure out logic,

Your heart

  MY  beloved  country is full of light and outgoing and hospitable people.

truly when i meet  it was so curious for me ,as u know nearly we r all  in our life 've heard  concerning the most popular drawings by famous painters which is  the sold over million dollars .i m so curious person with regard to substantial things over the world so always surfing on google  & researching  kinda interesting informations 

today 1 of my native  site  i saw a great information regarding current content so decided to translate & demonstrate the pics in here ,i m sure u r  also willing

I guess lot of EC members know who is our beloved noaslpls. You'll recognize her 'cause there is always a crazy cat-face looking at you when you chat with her, or you read some of her great post and comments...

So I want to dedicate 2 blog posts to her, because I've been picking some cats that wanna be the next noas' profile picture! LET'S EVERYBODY TO SUGGEST NEXT NOAS' PICTURE!!
THESE ARE THE FIRST PARTICIPANTS. VOTE FOR ONE!:

Yeah, there are lot of applicants (or I should say 'applicats'??) for being next noaslpls' cat.
THEY WANT YOUR VOTE TOO!:

Dear Captain,

It seems everything is fine again. But there are often different kinds of questions in Nkita's simple brain. And I'd always love to hear your views about them. Hehehe.

Captain, you still haven't answered me why you like calling me little wild flower. I am really curious. I sometimes think I am a mild flower too. How's Kaili and Jackie? Are they taller now? You told me Jackier was almost as tall as Nikita. Does he have a little girlfriend now? Is he rebellious?

Grandpa Liu's grandson c

Hello guys.

I'm going to share the list of funny GIFs for movies where actors type faster.

1. The best GIF

2. Work hard at work. Are you doing the same way?

3. Do not do like her

4. Did you watch this cartoon?

5. Oldschool typewriter

If you want to type as fast as they do, invest your time in typing practice online.

Here is a list of practice typing websites:

1. Ratatype typing practice

Easy-to-do lessons for beginners

2. Sense-lang

It was near midnight when I started writing this blog. It was raining cats and dogs, and normally the best time to hit the snooze button. Unfortunately, I drank a bucketful of coffee in the meeting today, so now I am wide awake. That's really ironic, isn't it?

For the past few weeks, it's been raining nearly everyday and tonight it's no exception. While I was grappling for things to write, suddenly this rain reminds me of my Jakarta's visit early this year. It was spur of the moment decision to g

As I finished all my English courses and chatting with friends is not enough for my writing I decided that I need to write more. That’s why I decided to make my blog. I was thinking what about it could be. As I don’t like difficult and controversial topics, I decided to choose something neutral. What about movies? I like watching different movies, except horror movies 9but sometimes it could happen too). I like different stories that it has. So I would like to write about movies, which I watch a

Come my tear to help me
My cheek has been dried
Do something
Except weeping what I can do
We don't do anything
Come my tear to help me
Very long time that has been finished our bygone story
One who goes never come back again
My heart wants weeping till resurrection

There are many foreign words in the English language. In the era of the Internet and market globalization, different languages easily get in touch and frequently borrow words from one another. 

English has many words from Arabic, Russian, Polish etc., and here are some of the commonly used ones: 

http://saundz.com/which-words-has-english-taken-from-other-languages-and-how/

Read more language stories on our English pronunciation blog. 

Dictionary method

There are three stages of knowing new words. If you recognise a word by reading, it is in your passive vocabulary. If you can translate the word into English, it is already in your active vocabulary. And at the third stage you are able to use it in a sentence while speaking to a foreigner.

If you are at elementary level, your first dictionary is the vocabulary list of your English textbook you started to learn from. These lists usualy can be found at the back of books. When you

Not that I'm saying that this is perfect,but then nothing ought to be perfect anyway.
So I suppose there will always come that time when you need to lie about a certain thing, another when will you feel the urge to take what isn't yours,another when your feelings will be so messed up you will end up breaking someone. Another when you will be too helpless to stand by those you promised to always be there for. Another when your weakness will win over your optimism. And another when you will fall an