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This game is not intended to embarrass, but rather to identify more with the members through automatic sincere revelation. I hope it does not exceed the red border but remain within the limits of respect. I will choose some members and ask him/her a question. After s/he answered, s/he will choose another member and ask a question. IF no one asked you a question but would like to participate, you may start and ask the member you have chosen ...... like this

I hope that you like it.

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Blood Group Experiment - RESULTS!!!

Hello guys,

here I am with my Blood Group Experiment and the RESULTS!!! I hope you all are eagerly waiting because the day and hour I promised to publish the answers has come :-) Thank you all for participating in this experiment, I do appreciate it and I am glad that we all could have had fun like this.

However, let me firstly say one important thing. I personally don't believe that blood group determines personality. As Mr. Bob mentioned in his comment, this is something people believe in Japan

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A True Story

I remember one time about 30 years ago when I was visiting England on business. I was with a client one day and he was driving up the motorway M1. I remember as we were driving, I looked to the left and saw a service area where they offered petrol and had a restaurant and facilities for motorists.

At the entrance to the service area was a large sign that said:
NO FOOTBALL COACHES ALLOWED

What a strange sign. Now I knew that Football for them is what we call Soccer in America. I’m not s

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I LOVE YOU Challenge

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I LOVE YOU…. 

                Are words which we often hear from our loved ones, from our friends, from our kids, from our colleagues and from our superiors.  These magic words somehow captivated our hearts and made us feel special and valued.

                When a man utters those words to his girl, it means that she is precious to him.

                When a kid utters those words to his mom, it means that mom is very special to him.

                When a friend utters those words to his friend,

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Travelling on your own is more exciting

It is said that travelling is an investment in yourself. In fact, it should be! Just think over that when you travel it's like you try to shape your desires to find imaginary, unknown and exotic and so, being able to reach your personal fulfillment. At the end of your travel time, you reach to the pleasing conclusion you grew up inwardly more than you could have planned. But, if you travel according  to someone else's plan, like a tourism company, are you r

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Blood Group Experiment - join us!!!

Hello guys,

are you into experiments? If yes, then I am here with one for you. Some days ago one girl was talking in the chatroom about blood group and effect of it on personality and it sort of motivated me to start this research. Are there any prooves? Hard to say. 2347006125?profile=originalSo what about to try it right here and right now. Let us try to find out, if people with the same blood group will react the same way on below mentioned questions or not. It is easy. All you need is to know your blood group and fresh

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Dialogue: In the Restaurant

This is a 3 part dialogue. We have the Person A, Person B and the Waiter speaking in this dialogue.

Waiter:  Good evening. We have a table for two over by the window or you can have a booth over here.

A             What would you like to do?

B             Let’s sit over here.

Waiter:  Can I get you something to drink while you check out the menu?

A             Thanks, I’ll have an iced tea.

B             I would like the House Coffee.

Waiter:  Great, I’ll be back with your drinks and take your food ord

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A Corpus Study using Ngram Viewer

You may know that corpus means body. A corpus of literature means a body of literature and is mainly used to indicate the words in that literature.

There are many Corpus studies to compare changes in language and to study how often a word is used. I have been using a tool from Google (Ngram Viewer) to compare words and their change in usage over time. I think you might enjoy using this Ngram Viewer tool which gives instant results based on the books that Google has scanned into their Google Books

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National Day in Japan, February 11

I'm blogging again because today we have a national holiday in Japan.  Today is National Day or National Foundation Day.

Some people think that the origin of National Day dates back to 1946 when the new Japanese Constitution was approved by US General Douglas MacArthur on February 11.  It was no coincidence that the Constitution was approved on this date because it had been considered to be the founding day since the first known written history and had religious and national significance.

This hol

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Dialogue: Missed Flight

A:  What can I do?  My connecting flight may be gone because we landed so late.

B:  When we come into the terminal, just ask the people at the arrival gate.

A:  I don’t speak Korean and they may not understand me.

B:  No big deal, I’ll translate for you.

A:  Please tell her I’m supposed to connect to JAL-422.

B:  She says you can’t make it. They already departed the gate. So, please go to the ticket counter in the next part of the building.

A:  OK, here’s the ticket counter. How can I get to Tokyo ton

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Hello Jack,

thank you for your last email, it was full of awesome jokes as usual. I must share something I experienced yesterday! I don't want to spread any rumours but I am still shocked! Yesterday on my way home from work near Liverpool, just few kilometres before I reached home, I had to stop my car and helped two people. They had problem with the tyre and none of them was able to deal with it. When I came closer, I realised it was my neighbour and some woman. However, it was not his wife!!! H

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Writing challenge: Weather chat.

Afro: Hello, Tiana, how are you and how about the weather over there?

Tiana: Oh, thanks, I am good and it is sunny right now but it rained last night.

Afro: You had rain! OMY, here we have winter though it is mild right now. But, we had several cold waves in this year. And, during cold wave, we really suffer a lot, specially poor people who practically have no warm clothes at all!

Tiana: Really sorry to hear about it. Anyway, how many seasons do you have in Bangladesh?

Afro: Here we have six differe

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Yes, second day was exiting! I woke up hearing the chirping of unknown birds. Were they really unknown..lol they may be our sparrows! Well, Malaysia is not  so far away from us. So, there are some similarities. 2347003866?profile=original

After waking up, I took sometime to observe the surroundings. I pulled the curtains which were dark maroon colored. Then, looked out the balcony towards the horizon. I could see the nearest river side,  paved front road, open yard, tress, cloudless blue  sky ..beautiful!2347004054?profile=original

Then, we went down

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Writing Prompt ~ British Vs. American Spelling

You must have noticed the differneces between Brtitish English (BrE) and American English (AmE). They are both popular English, and Brits and Americans can understand each other very well,  but it may not be so easy for learners of English to handle the differences between the two, such as spelling or grammar differences. 

You may not be so sure if you are speaking BrE or AmE - chances are you are speaking the mixture. If you really want to make sure

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When I got a call from you on EC for chat I didn’t miss the opportunity to gain access to you.  When we got chatted for a while you generally accepted me as your friend whereas I was already got ready and wishing you to get ready for the same.  I liked you very much and I was thinking to get a chance to get together with you in real.  You got a shock when I told you about this.  I was afraid of your getting angry with me.  And you stopped seeing me on EC. I was not used to get ignored by you so

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Cambridge Exams and your CV

I’d like to give you my feeling on Cambridge Exams for English. This is about your Curriculum Vitae. I look at it from a very practical point of view.

In this life, you are always going to need a piece of paper for something. Your driver’s license is made of paper (or plastic). It’s a document that says you can drive a car. The car even has its own piece of paper with the car registration, that shows the car can be driven.

With regards to your education and your future, if you are looking for work

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First day in Langkawi

We arrived in Langkawi at 11 am in 2nd January,2015. It was sunny and glorious! We started our journey one day before from Dhaka. We stayed at Kl airport almost whole night and tried to get some sleep in a couch. But when I steeped out from the aircraft to the ground of Langkawi; my face and mind started smiling in a wink! And, we started taking photographs.2347003910?profile=original

Not only me, I found, everybody was glowing and smiling. Anyway, after checked out we took a taxi. Our hotel was near of the airport. It was

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Weather Challenge Conversation

Belle: Hi Dear How are you?
MB: Fine, I'm eating some nuts after Clubbing!
Belle: Ok, Why have you been in the PUB?
MB: I'm with my friends and had some drinks.Does my voice sounds I am drunk?
Belle: No your voice sounds hot and manly, sometimes husky! What makes your voice like that and why you keep coughing.

MB: I am feeling cold its negative twelve or almost here. So most of the time I have colds.

Belle: I don't know the degrees, but I am dying feeling cold since January 27. I felt my room had

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From my point of view talking about weather is the best way to break the ice. Last week I made a new friend her name is Kasenia and she is from Russia and as you might guess I talked about wheather to break the ice and initiate our conversation.

Bruno: Hello ksenia, nice to meet you.

Ksenia: Hello Bruno nice to meet you too.

Bruno: So ksenia where are you from?

Ksenia: I am from Russia, and you?

Bruno: I am from from Brazil, I am Brazilian.

Ksenia: Cool I love Brazil.

Bruno: It is great to know that, a

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