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Read newspapers. Read online news. Read short stories. Read articles. Read all kinds of sign boards. Read magazines, books and novels. Have you developed your reading habit yet?

Reading skill is essential. Reading is beneficial and feasible activities.

When I first started my secondary school, I used to borrow English story books from the library. On the way home, in the school bus, I took out and read it. As I recall, I was not really reading it, not to mention that I did not even understand it.

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Stop translating while speaking

English is not the language that can be tracked by translation. However, practicing it in four different common ways is the core point. Listening is the most distinct one amongst all. So while speaking, non native speaker think a lot of their own language, and this without doubt make English very tough and kind of hardship to be properly spoken. Fluency would be impossible by keeping translating while speaking English. Translation itself is complicated task though for experts so what about learn

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About
Hello! I'm Andrei from Ukraine. My country is in East Europe. Usually there is snowing in the winter and hot during the summer. I live in city, but I like nature.
I'm IT-analyst in retail company. I want to tell about the life of an employee in Ukraine.
I'm looking forward to beginning dialogue with many people.

Anyway...

When I come first I take the key at the reception and open the door to the room of our department. After a night in our small room is stuffy.  So I open a window at once.

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My City

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My name is Shane, and this is my city. I live in Sydney, Australia. Sydney is famous for its beautiful harbour, Harbour Bridge and Opera House. Sydney is on the eastern coast of Australia between the cities of Newcastle in the north and Wollongong in the south. There are many beaches to visit and I love spending my time down at the beach. I especially like the beaches where there are not many people.

The view from the Botanical Gardens to the city centre and harbour is amazing. The Botanical Gard

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What The Hell Was I Thinking?

Half of this piece was written during the earlier part of 2012. When I received the news that my father was dying, I decided to finish it before his passing. He left this planet on October 22 2012. This one is dedicated to him. The writing was very hard for me to even think of posting here. But, it's time for me to move on from the grief and begin living again. My next blog that's posted will be much more humorous.

What The Hell Was I Thinking?

Many years ago, I was out for a wild night on the tow

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Speak English even in Dream

English has always been my passion ever since I was a child. How was that possible? A mystery I could not fathom. None of my family member speaks English. Neither my friends. Not even my neighbours. Once, when I was about nine or ten years old, I tried to practice my English with a distance cousin. I uttered a few sentences that I picked up at school to her. Hopefully she would answer me back in English. Instead, she laughed at me.

Finally, I had the opportunity to practice my speaking at Seconda

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HELP!

I have to write a self certification letter of originality. Can someone help me how to write it?

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Is it just a new year according to the calendar?

or is it really a new year in your life?

How can it be a new year if you enter it with the same habits, same character and same fault without changing anything within yourself.

I will change myself for the better.

How can we change ourselves for the better ?

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Living in a strange city

    After many years conditioning, We have been developed an unshakable faith that we must have been stayed with families on new years eve.But things can go wrong as unexpectedly,there are some instances when you missed your family so much and wanted to buy a ticket and go on the day that you had planed.However,if you were in china,i am sure you won't do those things as you anticipated,even though you are going to buy an air ticket you have to queue for hours for getting the ticket,even more tim

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Listening is Vital and Challenging

To my husband’s credit, I watch a lot of movies and documentaries mostly in English for the past 2 years. It has become our habit to watch 3 to 4 movies everyday. These 2 days we have been watching Granada Television’s 7 Up Series broadcasted by BBC. It has eight episodes spanning 49 years. It’s a very interesting documentary about the lives of 14 British children since 1964, when they were 7 years old. I am sure some of you are aware of this documentary.

The challenge of watching this documentar

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Chinese Spring Festival is coming.

Chinese Spring Festival is the biggest festival in a year in China. This year, the festival begin at Feb 9th.(two days left.)

According to the wikipedia, the "Year" pronounced as "Nian" in Chinese Pinyin, was a monster in ancient times in China. The monster appeared and broke into villages to hurt people at the end of a year. In the beginning, people didn't know how to prevent YEAR from entering, and then, at another end of a year, when Year appeared again, a burned bamboo (cracker) just blew up

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Self Introduction

This topic seems easy but I am always speechless whenever people ask me to tell about myself. Too much information came rushing into my mind at once. I am not sure what exactly they want to know or which information should I tell them first. Thanks to Tara Benwell for outlining some ideas on this topic. To start practicing my writing, I wish to write at least 300 hundreds word a day. So, let’s give it a go.

When I was born my eldest sister named me Asnida Darwis after a famous female singer durin

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Wordless Wednesday ( Feb.6th, 2013 )

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The best matched caption is submitted by Prostomolotova Galina.

The girl says: " I definitely will stand out of the crowd as I'm decorated in blue, and all other people are wearing orange!"

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The most amusing caption is submitted by bright - rubies. 

" Be careful ... I wanna a queen face not a bat man face."


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The most profound mea

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Overwhelmed

My membership has just been approved this morning after impatiently waited since yesterday. Now, I am like a child with a new toy :-)

I am hyperventilating at the moment. Not from running but from overwhelmed that I am here and I can't wait to start practicing my writing. While browsing what I can do here, some members started to sent me messages and I am struggling to chat with a few people at the same time. The need to reply to all of them and the feeling to know more about this site make me th

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Surprise!

My birthday was on Sunday, So I and my friends decided to celebrate it on Monday. Yesterday, when I went to college everyone hugged me.

After taking lectures we went in market to celebrate my birthday. My friends prepared a surprise for me. They decided to bring a cake for me. We were total eight in number. Two of them held the responsibility to keep me unaware of that surprise. Rest of the five were separated in group of two and three. I was waiting for them. I saw them coming with cakes. Yeah C

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I Feel Good

hi my friends ^^

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Arena   Award Description
fxb Top 5 Finish by  Worth1000  Entry finished in the top 5

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I am so happy today and I would like my friends to share me the happiness and pride. I got the first medal ever in my life today after a stunning victory in Photoshop competition. I was trying along last year to win and finally my dream came true by wining worth1000  Photoshop contests.

this my work 

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My Life to Live

A note from the author: I composed this about four months ago. Some of my English Club friends have seen it already. It's a symbolic writing and is still unedited. For the serious learners and people that I haven't had the pleasure of meeting yet; Please just read "deeply" and know that English has many levels of comprehension.

 

My Life To Live

As an average farmer with an occupation that consisted of brutal labor and small yields, my way of life wasn't easy. Summers were short and hot. Winters we

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Heart or mind

Sometimes, the mad people have far more sense than the logical people. This truth was shown rather clearly during one of competitions at the Seattle Olympics; there were nine mentally disabled contestants. All of them stood on the start line for racing hundred meters running. The race began by a shouting of pistol. The participants set out, but one of them could not jog, he stumbled and fell down then started crying on the track. The eight participants heard his crying and looked back at him. Th

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