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On my way to my brother's house on Christmas Day, I checked my phone, and found an email from MyEC's video mod Robbie! As many of you know, Robbie lives in the Philippines. None of us had heard from him since early November when Typhoon Yolanda hit his country. We sent messages and worried and prayed. We also worried about Lynne, another active member of MyEC who has been with us since the very beginning. I cried tears of joy to receive the news on Christmas Day that Robbie was okay. The next

The year 2014 is the year of a Horse according to the Chinese calendar. I am not going to tell you anything about the Chinese zodiac, let ⊱ Mickey ⊰ tells you about that, but I want to share with you some facts and maybe folly facts about horse. We have to admit that a horse is really one of the most elegant and magnificent animals. 

Did You Know?

1. Idioms/Phrases/Proverbs related to horse

A horse plays an important role through out the history of human kind. They had been domesticated for over 50

Listen To News: Chinese Probe Makes Lunar Landing ~ 17 December 2013

Discussion Question: China has been investing a lot of time and money into its space program in recent years. Do you think this sucessful Chinese landing will cause the US to put more focus on  future lunar missions?

  Considering that China always was a counterpoint for  USA, I think so, I think USA will be a a bit jealous of another nation set foot on Moon before some years it has itself. On the other hand, I don't believe USA

  Hello guys, this post I will try to gather all the topics proposed by teacher Tara in her blog "Do You Like Facebook? Let's Blog About It" in just one post. So, first of all, I want to thank teacher Tara for always bring us  supporting activities in order to improve our   ability of expressing our opinions and thus written skills at the same time. Thank you teacher!

  I'll answer the following questions along my text:Do you love or hate Facebook?Explain your reasons; What do you typically use F

Well if you compare now to 100 years ago, we have come a long way. I feel pretty good that we will have flying cars. I predict that the world will have a global economy rather than each country individually, we may even have an Earth president, rather than individual country leader. We will probably have colonies on other planets. TV's would be replaced with halo-gram projectors. The flying cars will get 100 miles per gallon of water, since we won't be using gas anymore -:)

What do you think will

In this blog, I want to share with you a few idioms/phrases related to gold. Did you know:-

1. The Midas Touch

The meaning of Midas touch is to have the ability to be successful, especially the ability to make money easily. The idiom of Midas touch is originated from the story of King Midas. It was an ancient Greek story. King Midas had a lot of gold and good fortune. But he never satisfied with what he had. The more he had, the more he wanted. He stored all his gold in a vault, and he would count

EnglishClub's Facebook page received its 100,000th like yesterday! This is a huge milestone. EnglishClub has been on Facebook since 8 July 2009. You can look through our Timeline to see some other fun Milestones, such as the date EC was born.

Some of EC's members love Facebook. Others hate it. Others liked it in the past, but now prefer other social media sites, such as Google +,  twitter, or even MyEC! Some of our members are denied access to Facebook due to government restrictions. We are happy

This a continuance of my previous blog, Amazing Places in Malaysia - Part I.

In this second part of Amazing Places in Malaysia, I want to introduce to you to three amazing islands in Malaysia.

1. Tioman Island

Tioman Island is a small island in the South China Sea, about 32 km off the sea coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Tioman Island looks like a sleeping dragon. This is because according to a legend, a Chinese princess was on her way to Singapore and decided to stop and rest at a calm and warm water

MY RESPECTS TO ALL GREAT LEADERS,

Hello members,

Today, I woke up with a news about Nelson Mandela who was very unique person, leader, hero and so on, you will also find a lot of tittle for him that he deserved entirely.

Chose whichever title but the fact that after 27 years in prison, he became a leader for his country. What an impressive situation, isn't it ? Can you ever imagine ? How he has a fighting spirit !!!

Let's remember, what words come to our minds, when called Mandela, apartheid and the

When I wrote my blog "Did You Know? - It's The Greek's Flavour", I found out that there were many more English words originated from the Greek mythology. Therefore, I want to share a few more of those words.

Did You Know? :-

1. Morphine

The word morphine, the drug that make someone in a dream-like state, was originated from Morpheus. Morpheus was the Greek God of Dreams. He had the ability to take human form and appear in people's dreams as suggested by the word 'morphe'. 

The Dream World of Morpheu

Interesting Facts In Easy English: "Serendipity" Is Difficult To Translate

Discussion Question: What word in your language is difficult to trasnslate into English, and why?

  What first came to my mind when thinking about this question was the Portuguese word "saudade". Without a shadow of  doubt that word is the hardest word to translate into English. It is always mentioned when touching topics related to difficult words to translate into another language, mainly English.

  You know, "saudade" is

Poly: (Many)

Polygamy means a system of marriage whereby one person has more than one spouse. Polygamy can be of two types. One is polygene where a man marries more than one woman, and the other is polyandry, where a woman marries more than one man. In Islam, limited polygene is permitted; whereas polyandry is completely prohibited.  Mostly, in societies other than Muslims' a polygamist (a Muslim) is unacceptable. It is allowed being a polygamous if one can keep justification in fulfilling the ri

 Root Word ~ phon: voice, sound

Struggling to be a good phonetics student

  What makes me to move ahead in the process of learning a second language is the possibility of not only speak it, but also speak it phonetically correct.

  That's why I'm giving more importance to the English phonetics through the  study of IPA chart sounds for some time now.

  It's like I wanted to have all the phonemes highlighted to the maximum in my voice when talking to other persons.

  This way, I intend to get rid of c

As you may have noticed by now, I like to share the origin of certain words or phrases. I found that the origin of those words or phrases to be fascinating. In this blog, I want to share with you another collection of the origin of certain words based from Greek myth.

Did You Know? :-

1. Narcissist

A simple meaning of narcissist is a person who is in love of themselves. Freud introduced the concept of a narcissist to psychology, a person with an exaggerated sense of uniqueness, obsessed with the dr

A root word is the basic form of a word without a prefix or suffix. Every word has or is a root word. Compound words have two roots. The root word provides the basic meaning of a word. In English, root words have origins from a variety of languages, such as Latin or French. Prefixes (parts of a word that come at the beginning) and suffixes (parts of the word that come at the end) are added to a root to change the meaning and word form. It  useful to learn the meanings of common roots in English

Sera's blogs about the amazing places on Earth inspired me to introduce to you amazing places in Malaysia. These places may not be classified as amazing places on Earth by some, but to me, they are beautiful and amazing. 

In the Part I of this topic, I want to introduce to you three natural and amazing places in Malaysia. 

1. Gunung Mulu National Park

Gunung Mulu or also widely known as Mulu Caves is located near Miri, Sarawak. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Gunung Mulu National Park encompasse

Suddenly I found myself staring at my laptop with a nothing to write. The most dreaded thing had happened to me. Am I finally hitting my writer's block? OHMY! What am I going to do? Scour the net to find articles to read? Find more obscure facts to write in 'Did You Know?' series?. The easiest answer is sleep and more sleep. LOL

I never think of myself that one day I will enjoy writing, especially writing in English. Though I read a lot, I never dream that I will find one coherent thought and sen

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

Hey, don't get me wrong or try to put words into my mouth - I didn't mean that you don't need to study English hard. I mean that you don't need to speak or write a perfect or too polished or flawless English. I know you have reason to be fluent in English, but it really takes a lot of time and effort to be so. You should be proud of your English if you can understand what I just said or what I mean by saying that. 

Be proud of your English

I can tell you have already learned English so hard and fo

It's been a while since I write anything. My work load seemed to be getting heavier, and by the end of the day, my mind was just too tired to do anything else. But I realised that I really missed writing, and trying to come up with coherent English sentences. Trying to make sense some flitting ideas and putting them into a sentence, and then a paragraph was a challenge that I never thought I will ever enjoyed. 

So I thought, what the heck, and took long and deep breath (instead of drink, LOL. I d