MyEC Chat in a nutshell for beginners/new members:
MyEC Chat is a wonderful place to start your journey of learning. Along the way, you can meet and make friends from all around the world. Interacting with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds significantly improves your English language skills, and puts you on a fast track towards achieving excellence.
Find a teacher who can help you overcome your weak points: This can be achieved by asking for guidance in main chat room. When a member replies to your question, you can check their profile to ascertain their authenticity and participation level. After getting acquainted, you can ask to start a private conversation and seek resolution to your problems.
Find a learning partner who is more than willing to embark on a learning quest with you. This way you can improve your self by leaps and bounds. Share your problems and assist each other in achieving your goals. Make schedule for regular chat hours in which you can focus on a particular aspect of the language.
Participate in discussions that are bound to improve your technical skill and increase your confidence.
The following blogs can help you understand how to conduct yourself properly and find your way in the chat room.
1. Chatting at the moderated room
2. Chatting for English Learners
4. Identifying people in chat room with their behavior
5. How to ignore bad/malevolent chatters
While enjoying quality time and learning in the MyEC Chat room, you should not lose focus on your main aim and keep participating in other activities as well.
Treat MyEC Chat just like your home. Like the way you keep your home clean and tidy, whilst adding improvements all the time. You can achieve the most in a peaceful and disciplined manner by abiding by The chat rules and following The chat etiquette.
You should avoid use of offensive and abusive language. Else you may get suspended / banned for your inappropriate behavior.
Note: You can familiarize yourself with some chat abbreviations here.
Glossary:
In a nut shell: to describe in few words, to be brief.
By leaps and bounds: very quickly, very fast progress.
Comments
I like this blog very much. I will forward it to a new friend right now.
@rema.. Sorry for the delayed reply. Your comment is almost complete, I cannot add more to it. You have described most of the situations and opportunities available to take advantage of. Indeed its all in your hands on how to make this a good experience or bad. And definitely EC is like a virtual home to all of us where we gather, learn, have fun, play around, help each other, therefore, its our responsibility to take care of it. Thank you very much for sharing your valuable experience :)
Great post Naveed! You have exemplary shared tips to make chatting as a useful means of improving English. Thank you for sharing this blog. Cheers! : )
Great advice.
But, The problem we are not beginners, but the most advanced who are taking advantage of their skills in English and annoy those who know less. :)
Well composed set of guidelines useful to all members . I will insert this link to my welcoming note Naveed . Well done :)
it is so useful ,great dear.
This is an excellent guide for anyone chatting :) Thank you.
This is a good post for new members, and I agree that we can use your blog to welcome new comers.
thank you Ario, Expector and Tara for your appreciating and liking.
@Tara.. I am on it!
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