Come in, I am happy to meet you!
Tea? Coffee? Okay, let's talk about how we have been spending our time here...
First of all, I wanted to thank all of you out of this nice company and other bloggers who commented in my blog. Good job, guys! I appreciate your comments! =)
Besides, during the last time I have been reading your blogs regularly and try to share my point of view if I have something to say. I would like to remember once more a string of blogs which had touched me especially. So, I am going to give a few remarks on them and along with this I want to introduce my friends to each other as at a real table. ;)
Actually, to arrange such a coffee-break I was inspired by heartfelt posts made by rose (My First Two Days in English Club) and Smiling moon (Warm feeling ^_^). I absolutely agree with Jason that proper communication is important and, quoting him, "there are kind hearts around".
Some pages which I had come across turned out to be really resourceful. Ika inspired a really vivid discussion These Are My Favorite english learning sites. what's yours? and so she started sharing really precious resources for learning English. Yum-yum, tasty page! ;)
Another vital information about Present simple or continuous-Test your English was published by Monika. By the way, check out her profile! You will be definitely amazed by the whole cloud of resourses on her page!
I often ask myself the same question as Alexandra: Multitasking. Does it exist or not?
After the first reading of this post I recalled my previous job. Nevertheless, reading along with listening also can be considered as multitasking. They say it helps to study English. Did you try it? I got a brilliant idea how to do this from Javier's post about A history of the world in 100 objects.
Are you going to stop on learning just English? Are you going to try other languages as well? Mimi Kao's thinking is far more outside the box. She asks Will you raise your child up as a bilingual? Also you can notice an interesting video in the discussion of her post.
There were a lot more interesting pages worth to mention. Sorry if I missed someone.
A couple of words about what I have noticed while reading your blogs. There are not few servises providing communities, forums, blogging etc. However, if I had to choose the community now, after I had wandered through other websites and their communities, I would choose MyEC again. Why?
Now I have always been thinking whose blog to visit and what to say. I am thinking of you, guys! =) I realize that I have to prepare my thoughts in English, so I started to catch myself on thinking in English sometimes. Wow, great feeling! Oh..., not everytime, just sometimes. Don't overestimate my English! ;)
The main thing, I concluded that warm community relations help to start thinking English. So, not just community helps, not just blogging helps. Warm communication is the thing which really helps in developing this particular skill.
Thus, I admit I really enjoy my dwelling on MyEC and my English goes on improving. :)
What could I do without you!
I am happy with my choise... How about you? ;)
Oh... this video below about communication
is what I have prepared as a funny dessert
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Enjoy!
Well, I am giving you my big hugs! Come again sometimes... Okay?
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Oh, Javier, it was exactly my speeeeeeeeeeeeed for Spanish, and especially for this evening :D
Not sure whether I have confessed you about https://www.youtube.com/user/holaquetalcurso. For a wonder, I somehow understand it... :D
Hi Javier,
Okay, if noone is objecting, I'll share one more link for Javier and everyone who knows Spanish better then English. This website is bilingual, and, actually, by means of this website I learn Spanish through English, but it's possible to do the same just vice versa, here - http://www.spanishdict.com/aprender
Oh, Javier, here is your coffee; sorry, the chocolate melted... inside of the cup... ;)
Oh, folks, I almost got asleep while listening to this radio - spotlightradio.net; they speak so slooooowly as it were hypnosis. Does it help for learning? What helps better, sleeping or speed? ;)
It makes one need a cup of coffee, though. Who wants? =)
Thanks, Javier, for sharing Qwiki site. It looks and sounds interesting, they use quite good voice generator. Though, I'm not sure about the role of a usual visitor of this web site. There is not much explanation in their FAQ page. Perhaps, everything is clear to all except me. ;)
By the way, I found a radio station which provides transcripts to each post. It's npr.org. There I got to know that Peter Falk, the legendary detective Columbo from TV series died. My Dog liked these series.
Javier,
I am happy to be surrounded with such helpful people as you are! Thanks for your offer of help, I will definitely take advantage of it if any questions arise. These days I am getting familiar how to read in Spanish and also reading in English about the very basic Spanish grammar. Along with this I am collecting resourses, everything which would be helpful at any stage of this long journey.
I have listened to La madre. Very impressive reading! You can grasp the basic sense of it just from the emotions expressed by the reader. So, I can recommend this piece of read as a special therapy to anyone. :)
Although there are a couple of resourses on Spanish grammar in Russian, obviously, that wouldn't be sufficient. So, I am happy to realize that English is helpful a great deal. I even can't express how much! And I again must say, what could I do without you! Once, it already appeared in the post above. =)
I've ordered my Dog to serve you with the absolute allegiance. Currently biting is restricted just to inanimate things. Sieze the moment, you can use him for making holes before you bind your books. ;)
Hi Javier! =)
Have you already explored my fridge? Good job! It's always for your service! Did you notice a small chocolate bar? It lay near the beer... So, it was also for you.
Did you try to sip beer when biting small pieces of chocolate meanwhile and allowing them melt on your tongue? Then you missed half the life! Kidding! ;) Okay, just try it the next time. It's an Irish recipe... I knew that you'd come and left this for you.
Also here is almost a song on the topic. Haha, you will sing the same after you have tasted!
Is there anyone else engaged in multitasking?
Well, about my multitasking at the current moment. I am trying to use English to start with my Spanish. Yeah, The Poliglot Project... This virus came from there! Also there were a couple of other resourses to get the fever of it. Once I got under that rain. Oh, it seems there is one more source, do you know it?... ;)
So, todos los saludos! =)
Hi Javier and all the team,
To be honest, lately I feel overwhelmed with lots of interesting resourses. So, I really feel multitasking, hehehe... :D The snag is how to manage all this systematically. I need some schedule to manage it and perhaps I am going to become a bit more choosy. I can't make it to read or listen everything.
I have a question to all of you. What do you do regularly for your English? or at least often? What activities/resourses are included to your regular schedule?
Special thanks to Javier for unveiling the Splendid Speaking link. Guess what I have been doing the whole last hour? I enjoyed it indeed (these ideas especially). =)
@Muna,
Please, feel at home. Here you have your tea. :)About "How do you do", I exactly understood what you meant, it's like "Hello" or "How are things?". So, no worries. ;)
I must admit you chose a really interesting job. It implies the ability of understanding different people, not only what they say, but also what they mean. I wish you success in both your studies and your future job. =)
@Muna,
You are very welcome, Muna! I am well, thank you. I am really glad that you visited our living room. What do you prefer, coffee or tea? :)
I am curious whether you are going to be a translator. So, what's your future profession?
Hi guys,
I dissapeared for a while, but there was a reason for it. My friend left for the US today. All my thoughts time and again come back to that event...
Nevertheless, I have been thinking about how to make discussions (it's about what I was telling before, Javier's idea with A History of the World). I listened the episode no.1 today and noticed lots of new words. So, it's not so simple as it seemed to be... I need a bit more time to think over.
Wow-wow! Who else wanted to be bitten? ;)
Oh, didn't you know that barking dogs don't bite! Don't be scared! ;)
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