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Some English Club members don’t use the chatroom often; some don’t use it at all. The reason why some members prefer to stay away from the chatroom is that they don’t feel comfortable there. Why? Because they are always pestered by people they don’t want to talk to. It is more common for female members to experience this than for male members. Consequently, I rarely use chatroom (maybe just to say 'hi' to some close friends) even though the chatroom is for all English Cl

I've spent a bit of time in the chat room over the last few days. I know that MyEC is a great social network for English learners and teachers, but I also know that we can do a better job of keeping our chat room focused on English learning. Many chatters have requested moderated chats. A moderated chat works best when a specific topic is chosen. For example, every Wednesday English language teachers participate in a moderated chat on Twitter called #ELTchat. We have a different topic each week.

Hello all members,

We are gathered from different places and countries. Some of us joined EC while others know nothing about neither their countries nor the language they speak by, though we communicate and build up lots of friendship. The common thing between us is English language.

We have the same aim and willing to learn one language, it is an "English language". We owe to this awesome site which grants us such features and great members to communicate with. :)

The founder of the site, the adm

Do you all know about the NEW feature in the MyEC chat room? It's the "Ignore"button. 

To find this button, make sure you have popped out of chat first.This will make the chat room window bigger. 

After you pop out, you can see the names of the people you are chatting with in the main room and in private rooms. Click on a name to see the drop down menu. Choose Ignore.

Why would you need to "Ignore" chatters in the MyEC chat room? 

• They are using abusive language.
• They are communicating in a language

We finally announced the 2011 ESL Site of the Year winner! Congratulations to PhraseMix! Please take a moment to check out this great site and congratulate Aaron. You can find PhraseMix on twitter or Facebook. Thank you to everyone who took the time to participate in the poll. We truly believe this website deserved to win! 

Each month EnglishClub looks through several websites and chooses a Site of the Month to review and feature. Check out this month's winner. If you have any suggestions for sit

Dear Yasemin,

After reading Naveed's blog, it made me more and more eager to write you though I have no idea what to write, but in the end I decided to open a blank page and start typing. Who knows ideas will push each other out of the way in their eagerness to get to this page.

Well, let's see what do I have in mind... What about valentine Valentine's Day? :S Don't lose your appetite to continue reading it please, though I don't hold out much hope you will enjoy it actually *_*

I never feel the ne

My Dear Syubi!

I got your letter, and it made me happy very much. I laughed a lot while I was reading your sentences. You are one of the lucky ones to get a love letter from a little chubby guy! I would want to tell a story like this, but unfortunately, I don’t have one. I told you, you are lucky! :)

Don’t you think so it will be weird if I write a Valentine’s letter to you! haha :)) That’s why, I decided to predict your love life instead of being your lover! *_* Predicting is my art.

First of all,

Dear Navedoo, 

Fancy seeing your letters again, because I haven't talked to you for yonks. First of all I should ask for your forgiveness ; As you know it's all about time, but for sure I will call round sooner.

I can't tell you when I remembered this history that was one of my selcouth Diaglyphs, I was like :"I'm done up like dog's dinner". At that day, I had prepared a shopping list with beef, cheese and some meat. I still have the image of your disenchanted face looking absolutely stunning. Wel

Dear EC,

First of all thanks and congratulations to you for taking a place in my favourite websites list ! It was a time when I searched and went through many websites for improving my English skills. Do you know that most of the members who visit you become your fans and love you. Do you know that if I write history about SN, you would be at the top. It's my luck to see myself as a star member among all your superstars & starts. The information, knowledge, news and all the things I'm getting f

Dear Ultimate,

In response to Tara's writing challenge about uncountable nouns, I am writing this letter to you depicting a fiction story about an incident, that might test your patience.

Do I need to mention the time when you were caught shop lifting at a store. I did not know what had gotten into you. Your conduct was dubious from the beginning of the day as you came out of your house dressed as an Eskimo while I was pondering how hot the weather was.

Since the heat was unbearable, we got into a

I wanted to join this month Writing Challenge, but I was confused to whom I should write a letter. Luckily, one of my dear friends, Surawan apparently also wanted to join this challenge. She asked me to write a letter for her.

Dear Ann,

I'm glad to hear news that the flood in Thailand is over now. I was shocked when you told me for the first time about the flood. I was sad to imagine how much damage your country was suffering during the flood. I can't imagine if I were you and needed to be evacu

Dear lovely students,

I do miss you hardly terribly. I hope you are doing great in this cold [weather].
I still remember your lovely [noise] that you've usually made. I still keep all your stuff we did together, they were golden old days, weren't they?

What about your continous complaint? Are you still escaping from your [homework]?

I'm proud of you. Miss. Manal keeps updating me with latest [news]. Remember! You are the [sunshine] of our future, so never keep your and our heads down.

I may catch u

Welcome to the first Writing Challenge of 2012! This year we will be focusing on some specific problems that I noticed in your writing in 2011. Each month I will challenge you to become an expert in a certain aspect of the English language.

This month we are going to work on uncountable nouns. Do you ever catch a friend using the word  informations? What about the word advices? These are not English words. Information and advice are uncountable nouns. They don't have plural forms and we treat the

EC chat room has changed!!

I was shocked!! I was like this when I got in to main chat room today...

Actually everyone, not only me, we were all got shocked...

Then the next thing we did, After we were able to control ourself,  was trying to find out its feature and trying to get accustomed with that. It was fun to explore this new look. There are some useful things such as "Ignore" button so you can ignore people whom you do not wish to talk to on your private room. 

It looks on your home page

Well t

 Yeah,

      Now 1.37 am 23/2012 in Vietnam. It means that now I have first minutes in Lunar new year, Year of the Dragon. 

      Now You know How I am happy. So I decided to write something to celebrate new year and say good bye year of the rabbit. A year in that I have done many things, some of them I did well, but there are still something that I did not well.  I hope in this year I would get a job that I would earn a lot of money and I could buy an apartment with that money.

     In the end of

This blog is about how to stay safe in EC and make people be aware of the danger of social networking.

I just want to remind people that the internet is not a place to expect privacy. I am not talking about hackers, viruses, spywares or websites. What I am talking about is US, each individual person. It is you and me.

Everyday lots of people sign up EC. You and I have many friends. We only have the chance to communicate through the blogs, photos, videos etc., etc. We become friends, but do we know

God please help us..

Raining season this year cause flood in my little town Rangkasbitung on saturday January 14th 2012. The people in some places move to the higher land. the flood happens at my school too. the water is around 80 cm high at the classroom.. we are still cleaning all stuffs here..

I bet you all know it is January 17th, but do you know that some of EC members celebrate their birthday this month? (well, of course there must be one or two lol) Anddddd really some of them are celebrating their birthday, TODAY!! Yesssssss, today, on January 17th. They are people I love, my dearest dearest dearest ones ^_^

Here they are, let me introduce you all to the birthday boy and birthday girlssss :)

               Aisha                           Green                            Champ     

Winning caption by @Amirhosein: "The world is full of red lights which want to stop you, or maybe yellow ones which pause you for a while. But the truth is, there is always the green one." 

Image by @mk_elt via ELTPics.

You can create a Wordless Wednesday challenge on your own blog post too. If you don't have a photo of your own to use, try ELTPics. Learn how to use ELTPics in your blog posts here.

I wanted to thnks all my EC friends for helping me improve my english ..... yesterday i did my first presentation in english infront of too many people from different countries and it was awsome , My professor was surprised !! 2 years ago i was not able to speak english at all but since i joined EC i learnt too much and i took away my shyness now i am able to speak without fear but with great love and motivation , thnks to all my EC friends for your help and great encouragement and motivation :