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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

Hello everyone ,

                      i  am  writing my first blog and  glad to find englishClub . basically i am from india and

i have done my graduation in 2008 . right now i am working but lack of prcaties and  speaking my English is poor .  but i want to improve my english . 

                                                                        in india ,  winter season has been started . now little bit cold are doing here but mid of winter season , very cold temperature here .  every person

 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

When you read the title above, you might wonder about what jamu is. Jamu is Indonesian traditional medicine. Each area in Indonesia probably has different term about its traditional medicine, but the term “Jamu” is more familiar and popular.

The reason I write this article is that I read one article here written by Dimas. He wrote briefly about the traditional medicine and what his favorite recipe. What intrigued me was a comment from Noaslpls where she said she disliked Jamu since it had bitter

Dear Captain,

How small the world is! You know what, the good girl I mentioned in the last letter is Jingjing's teacher! Her name is Ya Ru.

Today I happened to meet her in the tea house near my department. We then had a long delightful talk all the afternoon. The topic changed from tea to books, from intruments to calligraphy and finally to friends around. We talked in the tea house first and then went to her house. I was so surprised when she refered to Jingjing. She praised Jingjing for her crea

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

 Honestly, I am not good enough at English skills. My speaking is bad, my listening and writing are very awful and my reading always makes people who listen to it laugh very loudly. I just learn English because it is a compulsion of my study. Now, I am thinking that I want to change it, I start to learn more seriously than before. Although it is difficult for me to manage my time.

 I live with my brother and his wife. I am an orphan. It makes me work hard to earn a living to fulfill my daily nece

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

Write to connect people.

I don't really like to write. But when I read some blogs, how a blog can be a micro and a simplified information, and how a blog could provide many great essays and information, I realise writing is an art and a tool to brighten and broaden people's mind. Just like a painter, who try to describe and put his emotion in his canvas, a writer with his creativity has to put an effort to choose a word, and make a clear picture that is on his mind. Good writer can describe thi

As I finished all my English courses and chatting with friends is not enough for my writing I decided that I need to write more. That’s why I decided to make my blog. I was thinking what about it could be. As I don’t like difficult and controversial topics, I decided to choose something neutral. What about movies? I like watching different movies, except horror movies 9but sometimes it could happen too). I like different stories that it has. So I would like to write about movies, which I watch a

Dear Captain,

I just came back from a walk in the countryside near my grandma's home. I asked a long leave and acompanied Ling for a couple of days and I'm leaving again soon.

The road I was walking on was very thin, as thin as myself. I was thinking when Ling became so strong. She is no more the weak girl who was sent to the sanatorium by her father. She forgave her hubby and started to work. She told me divorce wouldn't solve the problem and it was an evasive choice for her. She believed her

A word can make someone eventually admire you . A word can make someone massively dislike you.

A word can pump hope inside someone's soul . A word sometimes is quite enough to slaughter someone's dreams.

A word sometimes can describe what a long sentence could not define.. A word can establish a whole productive conversation . A word can rip a conversation or a topic into pieces. being sarcastic all the times might attract some people to your side but keep in mind it will get birth to others that

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

Welcome to the Club. we are big community of english learners and like to connect with people all over the world and like to share opinion and suggestions...

Maximum we learner make excuses or claim for not moving ahead in a language learning due to we don’t have any time. We know time is a very important, if it gone away never be come back. It can fly, run out, be killed even make us confuse if don't grab it right way.we want to spend short time for learning and expect more to get that means wan

Dear Captain,

Before I have to move away, I went to visit some good friends. Jingjing begged me to visit her after I leave her as often as I can, and I promised her I would.

I told Jingjing a story about a bird and a frog as she asked. It narrated a frog who lived in a desert well had an argument with a bird who was tired and thirsty that stopped on the well. The frog insisted that the sky was as big as the mouth of the well while the bird said it was much larger than the well mouth. The frog told

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