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Greetings to all MyEC friends!

First, I’d like to ask something to you my dear friends who are serious in their want to improve their spoken English. How do you spend your time studying and improving your speaking skills? What are your learning plans daily to achieve fluency?

Hmm…I know… I know these are very common questions. We have read and discussed this kind of questions for thousand times here in our site. But what I’m appealing to you here my dear friends is that please hear me out my h

Have you ever dreamed to be a polyglot? You may ask what polyglot means. Polyglot is a person who speaks so many languages, let's say four or five or even more. Mr. Steve Kaufmann is fluent in 10 languages. As such, I was eager to know how he could have learnt so many languages whereas I am still struggling to learn only English. Two minutes after I sent my E-mail requesting him to be my guest blogger, Mr.Kaufmann responded and kindly accepted my offer. You can read his blog here: http://theli

Hello everyone!

This blog is going to be special...

I would like to invite all my friends here to exchange their learning experiences. How did you get to My English Club? What have you learnt here? Do you usually have lots of help from your contacts? Who are they: students, teachers or native speakers?

Do you believe MyEC is a place for learning? Why?

So, if you have other things to contribute... I will love to read about them. Feel free to share what you want here. And if you allow me, I'll use y

Here are some words that came to my mind while reflecting about the teaching conference I attended in the UK. Can you guess why I included some of these words? I will tell a little story about each word that you guess.

How to guess: 

1) Choose a word. 

2) Leave a comment below. Use one of the following methods of guessing:

a) ask a question (direct)

b) use "I think" + past tense 

c) use "I bet" + past tense 

d) use "I wonder if" + past tense

*Note: You can use a direct ("you") or indirect ("Tara")  fo

Here are my Top 10 things why I love MyEC. We might be sharing the same reasons.

1. Being a member of this social networking site, I've met interesting people and continuously meeting different people around the world, with the same goal, to be fluent in English.

2. It's educational. All the things you need to learn are all in this site. Be it on grammar, pronunciation, and articles about the English language. You'll have the chance to learn different places too.

3. You can be artistic. I can

this dialogue is submitted by : Grace

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Hello friends,

Today I start to create a short comic with the aim of how to learn english with fun, I did adventure to MyEC photo gallery. And, I have chosen the first photo which is from Shalva Mamistvalov's photo : Soldier.

 
Why am I giving this game the title of "Short comic"?  the photo is able to give an illustration about a story or event based on the imagination that we have created it. Isn't it so fu

Each month I post a new writing challenge for English learners. Everyone is welcome to join.

Here is a reference list of the first 30 writing challenges on MyEC. Teachers can use these ideas on their own blogs or in their classrooms. Students can review the archived challenges and try out any that seem interesting. It is always fun to revive an old writing challenge! Teachers are welcome to join as well. The more examples we have, the better!

Writing Challenge #1: Uh Oh What Happened?

Writing Ch

I've spent most of my leisure time here on MyEC since I joined this fantastic community two years ago. I've written dozens of blogs and most of them were featured here.

I still remember how excited when my blog was featured for the first time. The blog Native English Speakers' Blogs was a success and actually became a discussion about native speakers' roles (especially those of native English teachers) in helping learners learn English on MyEC. The blog got 92 comments and was at the top of the

In the last newsletter we made a special request for all of you to share your thoughts about blogging! I want to know how blogging has helped you learn (or teach) English. 

Why do I need your help? I will be going to a conference for English teachers next week. The conference is called IATEFL and it will be held in England. At the conference I will be speaking about blogging with MyEC learners. I'm hoping that some of the teachers will be inspired to join MyEC (or any blogging community) with th

I have been blogging for two years on MYEC and I am going to share how it affected both my English and my spiritual aspect of my life:

My very first blog and the first reaction to it!

I wrote my very first blog on 22 of May, 2008 at 14: 26 pm. I described my first trip to majestic Niagara Falls and put it on a website in which English teachers would correct it. My first writing was full of mistakes and I put it here exactly the way I wrote it with all the errors. You would be surprised how many

[I was so happy that my friend Ana agreed to be a guest blogger on my MyEC blog. Ana and I were high school friends. We were always in the same homeroom because our last names were alphabetically close. A homeroom is the room where you go to get your attendance checked. You also listen to announcements and the national anthem. Then you disperse and go to the classes that you have chosen, such as French or Drama. Ana and I recently became reacquainted through Facebook and our blogs. She is an ama

    For our english learner,english is the second language for us,is not easy to open our mouth and speak to a foreigner,especially to a native english user.In this case,does the learning has any significance？ We can use our morther language easily,why not  english.There are several factors,I think, caused this abnormal phenomenon.

   Shyness may be the main reason ,our face turn red at frist in front of a foreigner before our mouth opening.we have learned for many years,why we still shy to speak

In the "blogosphere", there is a common trend called Guest Blogging. This is when Blogger A invites Blogger B (or an expert in a specific field) to write a post that will be shared on Blogger A's blog.

Many bloggers have a certain theme in their blog. For example, my personal blog is called Beyond ELT. It is mainly about writing. If I invited a guest blogger to that blog, I would probably invite a self-published writer. I might ask him or her to share a post about publishing an eBook. 

Why do bl

To listen to the vocal version of the blog, please click the play button above!

Why do some discussions get more comments than others? How can we get more comments? In this short note, I am trying to describe first the difference between a blog and forum and then, how we can get more comments on MYEC forum.

The difference between a blog and forum:
To express yourself, to explain or clarify something, to share your thrilling experiences, etc, blogs are great place. You can also write about y

Hi there!

I would like to share here a nice experience I had in class yesterday with my Elementary III (adults) group. I have taught them about food, some healthy habits, keeping fit and so on, so I thought: "I should invite one of my friends from My English Club to be interviewed by my students...". So, that's what happened. I logged in and saw Martin, from Slovakia, online, then I invited him to participate in an interview activity and he said YES!!! I got very happy, because I wanted to provi

Have you looked at the blogging statistics on MyEC lately (see Monthly archives)? We have more bloggers than ever. I am always very proud when I read a 1st blog by a new member. Sometimes it is only one or two lines. Taking this first step is very important! You should feel very proud. Guess what makes me even happier? You guessed it. The second blog! Many people stop blogging at #1, but I hope you aren't one of them.

In your second blog you can tell us more about yourself. Try answering these q

The Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi likes to use colourful language. In a recent speech he said that the US-led attack on Libya is by "a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history." Assuming that this is an accurate translation from the Arabic, these thirteen words offer four different expressions that English learners would do well to know:

a bunch of

This common expression means "a group of" or "a collection of", for example a bunch of carrots. It is often used pejorat

Cats  : We are proud of you Salim, for making us become the famous cats over the world.

Salim: Why sweethearts ..?

Cats  : You shot us and uploaded to MyEC.

Salim: It's okay, your deserve to be celebrities.

Cats  : Again thank you Salim.

Salim: I thank you to you sweethearts, cause my friends can learn

          and improve English through your photo, Nadiyah has chosen you both as a model

          on her Challenge.

Cats  :  Reallly??? Oh my..hope they love us..

Salim:  Sure, they will love you, moreov

Hi Everyone,

Thank you all for your concern! I'm glad that some of the members here asked me for my 'part 2' and they really wanted to know how my study in Canada was going. I'm happy to tell you that everything here seems to be going well. I'd like to share something new with you.

Getting used to the new environment

I've moved to another rented house which is near the hospital where I'm studying. So, I don't need to take the Metro (underground/subway) to the hospital every day. I'll never forget