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Hi my dear EC friends, I hope you know about "email fraud" and "spamming" very well. How ever I'd like to share what happened with me.

I'm writing in my own way, because I have deleted that junk mails before. 

Mail was something like that:-

My name is Stella. I'm a 21 years old girl. I show your profile and hopped from you. My father was in police and killed before 2 years ago. He left 40 million bank balance by my name. My step mother wants to kill me to

MyEC Member: Nadira Moosin Asad

Country: Sri Lanka

Occupation: Teacher of English

Motto to live by: never say never

Special role on MyEC: Chat Room Moderator

Popular Blog Post: Spamming

Nadiyah : Hi teacher Nadira, how are you? you are always doing something great, in your real life and at MyEC. Can you share with us here on how you first felt when you joined this site?

Nadira : Thank you Nadiyah, I felt over the moon (so excited) when I found a site where I could finally get learning tools to be

MyEC Member: Hala J.M
Country: Syrian Arab Republic
Occupation: English Teacher
Spotlight Topic: Being an English teacher

Rajesh: How long have you been teaching English?  And how do you feel when you see yourself as an English teacher?   

This is the first time I write blog on EC although I’m a member of our family for a long time. I used to think of many different ways to attract everyone and set plans to enhance my English. However, I didn’t have any improvement. I blame for my tight studying schedule, my busy work, my sickness, blah blah … As a result, my English gets worse and worse. That is because I’m afraid of making mistakes, and do not have enough determination to pursue my plan. Truly, I’m not self-confident when using

How many of you were members of MyEC when we did Writing Challenge #13? This was a partner challenge. We interviewed a MyEC member. Some of you even interviewed Josef! I interviewed Salim.

Many members have joined since November, 2009. I think it's time to repeat this challenge.

Is there someone in your list who has an interesting story to tell? Does he or she have a unique job, a huge family, an identical twin? Has she climbed a big mountain, traveled the world, or overcome a major difficulty? T

- In the past, I divided my university courses into important and unimportant ones. Then, I worked hard towards mandatory courses and ignored the unimportant ones. So, I end up getting very good marks for my mandatory courses, but very low mark for easy ones. As such, my Grade Point Average came down.
Lesson: There are no important or unimportant courses. All of them are significant! Work hard no matter what kind of course you have!

- I did not ask questions in some classes because I was afra

  I'm certain that there are a lot of poor children who want to learn but they couldn't attend school because:

1. They prefer to work in order to sustain or provide a living for their family.

2. Because of poverty, many women and children are become victims of sexual exploitation and prostitution. 

3. Those young children could be the next generation of scientists, educators, or lawyers but have limited access of support because they are living in far away islands and have no means to reach them.

Last week one of my friends give me a special gift, he went to Israel and stayed there for a month, he just back at home last week and give me a red thread , while he was tying the red thread  in my left hand, he told me a story about it  “I took this red thread from the Rachel’s Tomb , you have to ask for seven wishes while I do seven knots” – he said.

I was intrigued so I was looking for the Rachel’s tomb by internet, I have not found information about my red thread and my wishes… but I found

HHello friends,

Let me know the caption this photo inspires you. The best caption will be known next week, same day.

This week, the winning catpion is :

"Please come out Mommy. We promise not to drive your crazy anymore."

It really made me laugh, Thanks to Tara

After 5 months of NATO's bombing of military personnel and civilians in Libya, the Libyan government has today struck back as promised by detonating a sizable bomb in Oslo, Norway, between the Oil Ministry and a government building housing the prime minister, presumably regarded as a command and control centre. Norway is a member of NATO and has been actively participating in the NATO campaign against Libya. Like most of the other participants, Norway has major interests in the oil industry.

This sign was hanging on a lemmon tree in the garden of a 5* hotel in Turkey.  I found it so strange that i took this picture.

What would you think the best caption would be for this picture ? Let me know .

Achan Malaka won the award for the best caption for this photo.

Hey..the sign is wrong..my fruits are sweet ;)

Time flies! It's already been five months since I arrived here in Canada in February, and I'm going back to China in two weeks. I've experienced the winter and so fantastic a summer here; I've learned a lot (English,medicine, and more); I've made so many friends; I've visited several beautiful large cities (Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Quebec, and I'll be visiting Vancouver on my way home). I really enjoyed my stay here, and so impressed by the friendly people, gorgeous sights, and the way they li

  theme- (n) idea or concept

  medium- (n) way or tool

  premiere- (adj) to be the first of leading

  ample- (adj) sufficient or enough time

  MyEnglishclub.com or MyEC is one of the fastest-growing social networking site in the world. According to a survey conducted by knowlegdepoll.com, MyEC ranked 2nd as an active social network that most people would like to visit and connect with friends. 90% of respondents enjoyed communicating by writing blogs, participating on audio and writing challenges,

How many cyber friends that you have? What do you think about making as much as friends in cyber world?

I have some social network accounts and I have around three hundreds cyber friends. Not really much friends, but I really like it so much. My friends are come from different backgrounds. It’s so excited to meet many people, I felt like I could contact with another side of the world. I got much information and many lesson from these friends. I could share all the things on my mind with these fri

Doesn’t medicine go too far by giving birth to foetus weighting only 500 grams ?

According to belgian gynecologists weight does not matter as much as the fetus (foetus) number of weeks. A little baby girl weighting 460 grams was born at 25 weeks and was kept alive for 7 months in a special premature unit in a belgian hospital.Today, at 7 months, she weighs 4.2 kg and measures 54 centimeters. Since yesterday and though she still have many health problems, she sleeps in her own bed in her parent’s

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother Ahmad Wali Karzai has been assassinated on the 12th of July 2011 by one of his own bodyguards at his residence in Kandahar. Ahmad wali Karzai was addressing a public rally when his assassin open fired at him  He sustained bullet injuries in the neck and head  He was rushed to nearby hospital where doctors declared him brought dead President Hamid Karzai was with the French president Nicolas Sarkozy when the incident took place The Taliban has claimed the r

Toronto takes the place of Vancouver as costliest city in Canada

--immigrant: someone who lives in another country permanently

--domestically: in one particular country

--accommodation: place to live, stay, etc

Toronto has just replaced Vancouver as the most expensive city in Canada. Thanks to a lot of immigrants from around the world, Toronto is now the biggest city in Canada, which caused the increase in rent for those who are living there. Second only to Toronto, Vancouver,the most beautiful city

Many of you learn English through EnglishClub.com's Weekly News. I have been reporting the world news for many years now. English Club used to have the Monthly News Digest. It had four stories from the previous month. This year we changed the format to a weekly news report. I add one new story every Tuesday.

This year is the most exciting year. Do you know why? A group of MyEC members are using English Club's weekly news for pronunciation practice! If you haven't visited the Audio Speaking Group