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As many of you know, we have a NEW Dictionary App on MyEC. We've experimented a bit over the past few weeks to find a good place for it. The best place seems to be where it is right now, on the bottom left.

When we first added this Dictionary it got in the way of the main chat room. Thank you for your feedback. When we removed the Dictionary, many of you were very unhappy! We're glad you liked it. We looked for a better solution.

The new placement does not get in the way of the main chat room, or

Many groups on MyEC use Audioboo to embed sound files on MyEC. Audioboo recently made some changes. To embed on MyEC, you must do the following: 

1. Record your audio. Click on Embed. 

2. Choose "More Options". 

3. From the More Options section, choose "Flash". Copy the code. 

4. Click on the Media box and paste the embed code.

Here is the Audioboo video tutorial. Please note the change to embedding Audioboos. 

Have fun! 

We all have certain words that send us to the dictionary over and over. Sometimes it's a spelling problem. For example, I have trouble spelling the word "definitely". Other times it's an irregular verb that causes the problem. No matter how many times you read the rules, you still have trouble remembering. Are there certain words that you avoid because you don't want to use them wrong? For me, it's "lay" and "lie". Let's get these words straight once and for all! 

Your Task

1) Review EnglishClub.

If you're on twitter, give this fun tool a try. I was sad to see my interestingness so low! Fortunately, @EnglishClub gets an "interestingness" rating of 100%. In other words, you should follow @EnglishClub.

I burst into tears when I saw the Academy Film Festival gave the best foreign language award to an Iranian movie called “A separation.”

I do not know why I cried so much. Maybe because I felt we are really forgotten. No one sees us even in the weather forecast of the International news. The meteorologist usually skips over Iran. Not so many people know us. To my surprise, when I took my Canadian citizenship oath, the citizenship officer asked me where Iran is. “Is it Iraq?”

Moreover, when I show

I recently came across a wonderful blog post by English language teacher Chiew Pang. Chiew is a famous blogger in the international English language teaching community. He interviews teachers and shares lots of great resources. His recent post "Know your photos; know your camera" on the ELTPics blog was full of great tips and ideas for teachers. I asked him to rewrite it for English learners so that I could share it with all of you. I was so happy that he agreed! If there's one thing I've learne

Correcting Commas: Example Sentences

1) In a list:

Home, Learn English, Teach English and MyEnglishClub are main menu of EnglishClub.com, and MyEC, My Page, Blogs, Photos, Videos, Chat, Forum, Members, Groups and Invite are submenu under the MyEnglishClub main Menu.

2) Between 3 or more adjectives or adverbs:

Most of MyEC's members are very helpful, hilarious and nice to each other.

3) With two adjectives:

Robbie always writes attractive and colorful blogs.

4) With numbers:

On MyEC there are 116 star me

Winning caption by Anele: "Life is not always a bed of roses .......sometimes it's a bed of stones and rails...."

Here is a taste of some of the things we do on MyEC for those who have not yet joined this club. I grabbed a few examples from the past week! Imagine what we've done over the past few years...

WRITING CHALLENGES

Each month I post a writing challenge on my blog. In 2012, we're concentrating on common errors that I noticed writers making in 2011. This month we're practising using commas properly. Check out Robbie's model example! (The instructions for this month's challenge are here.) Writers are g

HI

I really love music. It makes me feel good & relaxed. Not only me I think every person on this Earth is music addicted. Music can bring two souls together.

I love to do singing too. I don't want to be a singer, it's just my hobby. But I was planning to perform something on cultural festival, so I asked my sister that how's my voice? Do I sing good or bad. I got a negative reply from her. It made me sad. But I didn't listen to her and I practice daily to do good in my singing, So I can perform.

I

My sincere thanks to Teacher Tara who have shared her idea about the infographic and inspired me to create this photo challenge.

Hi guys, do you interact with many friends at MyEC and know their personalities very well? Should your answer be an "yes" I would love you to take part at the challenge and tell us about them.

The Rules:
1 - Select one of your friends and describe her/him personality (You are only allowed to write five positive personalities). This link will help to describe their person

Once in a while someone have done a useful upgrade to us. Well, it's not like all other upgrades have been non useful though, and probably I didn't mean also, that all those times when I have logged in, and here haven't been any new features and upgrades added. The ones responsible, just are siting idly doing nothing... :P But maybe they actually are doing that, and maybe there have been only meaningless upgrades too. So just in case, I actually felt the need to emphasize the fact, that this tim

  My country, the Philippines, is celebrating Women's Month. I would like to take this opportunity, to dedicate this blog to the fantastic females of MyEC. Here is my participation for February's writing challenge.

Correcting Commas: Example Sentences

1) In a list:
Nadiyah is known for moderating photos, inviting everyone to join in the photo challenge, and helping new members to be familiar in EC.
Nadira is a chat moderator, a teacher, and a good friend.

2) Between 3 or more adjectives or adverbs

I love infographics. An infographic is a visual representation of information. It is a great way to summarize research or a survey. It's kind of like an online poster. Here is a great infographic about blogging.

I'm currently working on a NEW Writing Guide for EnglishClub.com. (You've seen the NEW Reading Guide, right?) This infographic is a sneak preview of what it will be about.

Can you create your own infographic and post it on your blog? Try to choose a font that is easier to read than the one

Did you find the "More..." button on a page? Are you using it? I hope so!

I love the "More..." button, with which I can read all the comments or posts I missed. For example, I don't want to miss any comment or post by Tara. I can go to her page and click on the "More..." and I can see all of her comments or posts I failed to read. That's great!

So, try using the "More...".

Note: This summary was created as an example for those interested in moderating a chat in the MyEC Chat Room. Please refer to the "How to Write a Chat Summary" for more details. If you are interested in moderating topic based chats, please join the NEW chat group and review all MyEC Topic Chat Pages. 

SUMMARY

Chat Topic: Food Habits

Date:February 21, 2012

Hashtag used: #foodchat

Moderated by: Tara

Chatters: Lara, Nadira, Ibra, Naveed, Javier, JK, fdagato, truth

In order to show other chatters how to wr

MyEC Chat in a nutshell for beginners/new members:

MyEC Chat is a wonderful place to start your journey of learning. Along the way, you can meet and make friends from all around the world. Interacting with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds significantly improves your English language skills, and puts you on a fast track towards achieving excellence.

Find a teacher who can help you overcome your weak points: This can be achieved by asking for guidance in main chat room. When a member rep

It is  refreshing indeed  to  see  a new format  at  the chat room  making  it more difficult  for those of whom to make  problems  on the mains

There are many good  advanced  and  fluent  speakers  who keep away  as  there is only  aim less chatter and  natter  most  of the  time. Of course  no one  can be  serious  all the time  and can be expected  to . I may be  wrong  correct  me  if  I am so and  it  would  be  ideal if  you could  share as a  blog an interesting topic you had  chatted or r

What is the difference between a comma and a period? A comma is a pause. A period is a full stop.

In English, punctuation is important. If you care about your readers, learn how to use punctuation properly. We all make mistakes sometimes. In fact, I have to look up comma rules regularly. This is one of my favourite resources for advanced comma questions. 

The most common punctuation error I see on MyEC is the comma splice. This is the use of a comma instead of a period between two independent clau

Dear sister, 

First of all, I have to say sorry for being so late to reply to you, but as u know we got snow here in my country this week end and consequently; no electricity, means no internet.

Concerning my letter, I feel very happy that you like it and the pleasure is really shared, and you know that !! It seems that you have good news about your work, you are clever, and you will succeed this is evident...

 For me too every thing i ok, I am still doing my training and enjoying, but at the same