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All of us have a child inside ourselves, but we are not aware of him/her... Let me ask you some questions; do you know about the inner child? Or have u ever felt a little boy/girl lives in u? Here is the story based on my own experience...
One day, about 10 years ago, it was my grandma's birthday party, there were many guests and one of them was my little and cute cousin... He's too naughty, I watched over him because he was searching for sth to entertain himself and he did it finally...
He took m

Hi MyEC members,

Have you ever tried taking forced perspective photos? This is something like a photographic trick that makes your photos look interesting and incredible. Maybe you can "touch" a tall building that is far away, "wear" a pair of big shoes, "drink" a cup of tea from the waterfall,  make a smaller object looks larger than its real size, etc. Your imagination would make the photo one-of-a-kind and impressive! OK, now let's give it a try and have fun!

How to participate:

• Read this if you

           Hello my friends!!

   Naming customs vary from one country to another. Having this huge diversification led me to ask this question: How did our ancestors around the world find their babies' names? Ethnic and religious customs and so many other factors can drive you to a strong, ethnically rooted, meaningful name. Is this not so? I have made some researches about naming customs in the world and I am going to cite about some countries

  Both in Russia and in the US, babies’ names are com

         My sweet mom, reading your letter that made me cry . Of course, now you cannot see my tears but believe me, from deeply of my heart, I can feel your love. I wanna shout at in public : “Mom, I love you” but…hihihi….I still not speak yet. So let’s me write my feeling here. Hope it will make you happy and get more power for our next “race” .

        Mom, we have “fate in love” together. First, The God didn’t think about you. He wanted to give me to another mom. One night, he heard about you

This blog hasn't corrected, it’s full of mistakes. I didn't want it to be viewed or checked by any native speaker, as I usually do. Because I think it would be quite charming to be posted with mistakes. ‘’Blog fits with the title’’

In this blog, I want to talk about the mistakes that I used to make throughout my learning.
As far as I am concerned the learner isn't impeccable from making errors, therefore everyone can make mistakes and even in his/her native language. That could be in grammar, sp

     Hi sweetheart, what are you doing now? Oh, you’re sleeping. OK, sleep more. I know, this time is very important for your growing. You need rest all day and night. Just sometimes…I wonder….are you bored? Because like me…hahaha….I cannot stay alone for only one day. You…9 months and 10 days…ohhh..How much boring day that you have…

     You come with me suddenly. I mean : because of my health and the doctor said: “You had no chance”. So I stopped my expectance. And I didn’t need to take care of

I used to spell "Bride" and "Groom" incorrectly. These were really silly mistakes, because even a little misspell in English, it will have big difference meaning.

Making some mistakes in learning is common and it happens. Without having mistakes we can't improve our knowledge and can't be better.

I used to be confused when should distinguish between Bride and Groom. Sometimes, I used to say Bride as Groom and the opposite. So, whenever I would say about Bride or Groom, I took my dictionary to find

I used to make mistake in writing the Number 19 in Words...I ll often get confused whether the Letter "e" should be there or not....

whether it is Nineteen or Ninteen....

This doubt I always have for almost all the words that ends with the Letter "e"...

I dont know when it has entered into my mind that if we have to add "ed" or "ing" or "teen" to the word ending with the letter "e" then that "e" (Bee is called as "E" in our Tamil Language) should be waved off... i think my kindergarten teacher woul

I like learning about other languages, espesially English. I have learnt English since I was in Senior High School.. But...you can see,,I have no good English skill..
English is common in My Country..But unfortunately..I don't use English in my daily activities..That's why I feel there is no increase of My English..

Finally, one day I found English Club as the site to learn English. It is a good way to improve your English by English Club.
But,,in other hand,,many people who use EC wrongly..They

I used to not be able to find the subject of a sentence and I could never remember if the "I" came before an "E" or the other way around.

When I was in grade school, I would always choose the wrong noun as the subject of the sentence. I had this problem all the way through high school. I did not do very well in English in school. I really hated English. All the rules that never made any sense at all, just were not important to me. It was not until I had to take college English that I developed a

Learning from each other's mistakes is very useful. There are many common errors that people make when they are learning a language. Learners who share a native language often make similar mistakes. This is because they are bringing the rules of their own language to their new language.  

Members often send me private messages with questions about the English language. I usually ask them to put their questions on my wall instead. Sometimes I ask them to pose their question at the Grammar Help Des

I was curious about one thing. Is a butterfly as light as a paper? If yes, why can't the wind blow away a butterfly but a paper?
I am sad now. I just saw off one of my good friends. I left my sweetest smile to her, but once she got into the station, tears came out of my eyes. I have to admit I am always weak at controlling such kind of feeling.
When I came back home and opened MyEC, I received an email, and it made me cry again. Sister Anele had left MyEC. I thought of Uncle Daylight, Sister Be

Are you taking advantage of all that is offered here on the EC website?

This morning I was reading some of the blogs here (btw Noa, when did you get to Chapter 9, last I saw was Chapter 6 lol?), when I came across a very interesting blog. I had read the blog when I first joined EC about a month ago, but as a native English speaker, I read it and went on.

This morning it came back to my attention. Since I had a bit of time, I looked at it a little closer. I was surprised by what I found. But what s

We've already got tens of thousands of members here on MyEC. But it seems we've got only a few active members here. Then what makes an active member or what does an active member look like?

For me, an active member is active in writing blogs and leaving comments on blogs by other members. They find MyEC interesting and enjoyable; they feel so comfortable with MyEC and will sign in on MyEC first thing tomorrow; they seems to really enjoy writing blogs and leaving comments - they take the time to r

My father and his wife are doing some traveling this month. Their cruise ship made a stop in Belgium this week, and my stepmom shared an excerpt from her travel diary that I thought you might be interested in. The poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae is one that most Canadian children learn in school, and it is interesting to learn more of the history behind it. My stepmom gave me permission to share her excerpt with you. I hope you find this post as interesting as I did. Maybe it will inspi

 Let me share with you some facts about Malaysia. Some facts that are not well known, quirky and sometimes, totally obscure. (I have added and made some amendments from the original blog)

Only In Malaysia:-

Independence Day

Malaysia celebrates its Independence Day twice in a year. Once every August 31 which we called "Hari Kemerdekaan - Independence Day", and the other one is every September 16 of which we called "Hari Malaysia - Malaysia Day".

Malaya; this is the former name of Malaysia got its ind

At the beginning of this year, with the encouragement of EC friends, I started to write my own blogs to practise my English writing. Up till now, I have written 100 blogs. MyEC has witnessed dribs and drabs  of my progress on writing.

Before this, writing was a big problem for me, I was afraid of it and even hated it. Every time, I had to count the words of my English compositions in the exams [usually the word limit is around 120 to 150 words]. 

Now, I find out that writing is even harder than ev

It's a rare chance for me to meet with people who want to learn my national language, Bahasa Indonesia. The language is less popular than English or Spanish. So, I won't expect to see many people want to learn it. But, I accidentally found people from various countries who are learning my national language.

They are learning to improve their writing in Bahasa. And we, Indonesians change our roles there. We become the native speakers that could correct their writing in exchange for correction on o

Maybe you have felt or even said,  

"No one visits my page or leaves comments for me"

Is this you?

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Don't be sad, be active on MyEC.         If you become very active and treat your friends the way you want to be treated, you will be popular and also begin to improve as a person and hopefully as an English student. 

We sometimes get a message from a friend on MyEC complaining that their friends don't comment or say hello. PLEASE DON'T MESSAGE US ABOUT HOW NO ON