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Tuesday, 20 September 2011

I wake up early in the morning, to catch my flight 7.10am. The Taxi driver send me sms that he will come 10 minutes late. I replied him that's ok, meanwhile I take a bath. Make a taxi booking in advance is really helpful.

Of course, there's additional charge for the advance booking service, but it's more convenience than stopping taxi on the street.

"Sir, I'm already in the lobby" , a sms text from taxi driver. After take my warm apple tea , grab my back pack then lock th

I can't make another account. the site always ask me the following quastion : what does Englishclub help you learn.please help me how can answer tis quastion.let me add that i try a lot of grammatical and correct sentences.Thank to everybody.

When you are in love, you lost your mind because it flies wher the other person is. When you are in love, you just think of that person, you just live for him/her, you just want to have fun with them and love them. 

Today, I sing, "Every breath you take" by the police. I love this song because it express how a man can love a woman, how a man can give away his life for the love of his life. I would like to love someone that deep, give away everything for that person. 

I want to love someone with

Hi everyone, as you know I work as a teacher and this is a profession that no many people value as it should be. Today, I have a concern and it is about how parents are managing the relationship with their Children. I am twenty-five years old and my mom and dad have been there always. They have been there for supporting me , for advicing me. If they have to ground me, they do it, it I was sad, they would console me, if my marks at school were great they congratulated me and if I failed they made

Dear My EC friends,

I will go to Jakarta, my home town for a business trip 26 Sept - 30 Sept 2011.

But I have free time after office hour.

Is there any EC friends in Jakarta want to meetup ? maybe we can have a coffee at Plaza Senayan or Senayan City.

Cheers,

Ardian

Have you ever written a letter to yourself? Last week, on Sep 17th, my university asked me to write a letter to myself. The office of the Registrar would then keep the letter in a box confidentially for four years when I am supposed to finish my program. Then, after graduation, they would give the letter back to me. So, I could write inspirational letter or could mention my goals and dreams. I found this idea very fascinating.

The reason that I love this idea is, in fact, I wrote a contract wit

I am afraid I have been too busy to post much here lately.  Even so, I would like to let everyone know about a good source of English language videos (VOA) that do provide useful information in an easy to follow format. 

If you live in some areas of the world you can receive VOA (Voice of America) broadcasts directly. Voice of America offers English language instruction programs in many countries.  This one is from the Cambodia area.

https://www.youtube.com/user/KhmerSpecialEnglish?feature=mhum#p/p

Hello sisters and brothers,

Today Tara reminded us that September 21 is the day for peace. She asked us to share a quote about peace. There are a few quotes that i like so much that i could not decided for one. So i downloaded my favorite 7 ones. I hope it won't bother you with them.

You can share your favorite quote too and send it to Tara's blog : here is the link.

http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/share-a-quote-for-peace

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind. It takes more courage

I have been a English teacher for 4 years and this year has been really hard. My studentrs seem to not liking the classes and the activities that I make are worthless to them. Besides, they aren't good at my classes: they get up and talk, they make fun of their classmates and they say that learning English is a waste of time (and if you have read my previous blog, you know what I think of that).

I try to be as creative as I can: work in groups, make plays, listen to music and have lots of fun wi

Did you know that today, September 21, is International Day of Peace? Some people call it Peace Day. It's wonderful that a club like MyEC has people from so many countries. There are sometimes arguments about race, religion or politics in the chat room, but for the most part MyEC is a very peaceful place. I have learned so much about different countries from all of you! 

Another thing I love about MyEC is hearing the different English accents from all over the world. Many of you have tried using

Please . write your captions  for it. Thank you.   :)

     Through my study to English, I've studied phonetics which is of great importance for learning the correct way of speaking the English language. One of the most significant things I've learned is assimilation. Assimilation is something which varies in extent according to speaking rate and style; it's more likely to be found in rapid, casual speech. Assimilation in most cases affects consonants.

Types of Assimilation:

1-A final consonant with alveolar place of articulation is followed by an ini

Hello everyone. 

Today, I would like to write about something that is awark for me. Wasting time. First at all, I would like to ask how do we invest time. I mean, when you study or work are you investing your time? And when you play video games and watch t.v. so you waste it. I don't think so. I think time is a thing that you cannot either invest it or waste it. The time can be only spent. 

You spent time doing the this you are due to do or you like to do; so you spend time when you're working,

  It was a beautiful Thursday evening in Manila, Philippines. On that day, I was traveling on a bus on my way home together with my family. My sister and I were chatting about the things we accomplished. The bus driver turned on the TV and switch to a news channel. I remember how the first tower was hit by an airplane. It was unbelievable as I thought. It was like an action movie being commercially aired. The reporter kept on narrating the news and as I observed, all people on the bus were sho

Dear EC friends,

Better late than never !!! I wrote this post more than 3 weeks ago and i forgot to post it. So here it is. I hope you will enjoy this little Turkish tour.

Today, everything is quite here, it's the third day of Bayram holiday and most people are with their family, relatives or friends. So i was thinking about something interesting i could do on my own and, all of a sudden, an idea came to my mind. Why wouldn't i go to the the open air « mini city » museum to make pictures of som

No one promised that LIFE would always be FAIR.

People are IMPERFECT, we make MISTAKES and bad DECISIONS

You may have been HURT by OTHERS in the PAST,

But the IMPORTANT part is how you

CHOOSE to deal with that HURT.

Failing to let go of the PAST and holding to GRUDGES

and ANGER can only cause HARM in your LIFE.

CHALLENGES and TRIALS are the PROOF of how BETTER,

MATURE and STRONG we are as a PERSON.

by: Raquel B. on Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 1:09pm

I was standing alone when I saw a woman who was looking at me as I looked at her. I smiled at her but I noticed she was crying.

She was yelling but I heard nothing. People around her were laughing and enjoying with one's company but it seemed like no one noticed her.

I was shocked because she was bleeding, she was begging for help but she said nothing. She was dying... my heart was in pain as I looked at her. I did not want her to see in that

"Tabe Marche" is festival's name in my city.
There are many kinds of food shops in a "Tabe Marche".

I went there with my friends.
I bought the fried chicken and soy sauce yakisoba.
The fried chicken's taste was salty.
Salty fried chicken and soy sauce yakisoba are rare.

And I bought spicy vegetable curry.
Curry was too hot for me !
But it was very delicious !

Do you think that boy should or shouldn't cry.

In my personal opinion, I think  boys can cry when they feel like crying. Of course, I would say that boys should not cry in public. They rather do it in private, buy yes, us as boys can cry.

Sometimes, we cry because we feel blue and we can show our feelings. Sometimes, people feel happines or are nostalgic so it would be good to cry. Some people cry because they are heart-broken. 

I like to cry once in a while, because when I cry I feel relief and