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"Learn" vs "Study"

The words learn and study are closely related to each other. Learn means "to gain knowledge or skill by studying" and study means "to read, memorize facts, attend school, etc."

When you study something, you have not learned it yet. When you are studying something, you are reading books or articles about something you do not know a lot about yet, or using flashcards to memorize facts, or listening to a teacher in a classroom, or watching videos about something so that you can kno

Well, in my last tests were a few sentences in the passive voice and they turned out to be the most complicated for you to correct. So, I'd like to explain you how to use the passive voice correctly. Let's compre the active and the passive voices.

In the active voice, the subject performs the action denoted by the verb (the predicate).

I told you a funny story yesterday.

In the passive voice we can change the word order and use any of the objects as a subject. It means that the subject is no longer

Saturday, most of Gulf’s companies are closed so there’s no multitude calls for today, and this made me so bored so I decided to surf the net and find something to read, I’ve been reading so many love stories lately and I was so fascinated by almost fairy tale stories, though I know in real life, those are close to impossible, I’m must be dreamy for that to exist. The kind of love where the guy will do anything for you, the promise that he will cross his heart and hope to die, the gentleman who

Have you seen circus anytime? Yes most of us seen it.
What ring master will do with animals. He will give commands and all animals will follow it. Some time he will put his head or hand inside Lion's mouth. Lion will not bite him.

Why a lion, so power full animal, behaving like a cat even weaker than a cat?

Because, Most of the lion in circus are born and brought up in circus. They really don't know their capability or ring master never gave a opportunity to lions power. So lions are thinking my

In life around most of the tragic and alarming situations humans stay and ask addressing their God exclaiming why me? Undoubtedly, humans in the world are all to suffer in order to gain what they want. Things are achieved when there are high struggles for them. Sometimes we confront obstacles owing to the tremendous destinations we aim to get and sometimes Our God tests our tolerance or often observes our patience to prepare us for what we are gonna face or may be for something he is gonna give

My dear wife Tanya kindly posted a blog on my challenge. If you remember, we had to use some words guessed in January and to write a funny story or a poem. Well, her story is great, very funnny and sarcastic. She made her best! But my dad always taught me to be a gentleman and not to leave ladies' statements without attention. So, I haven't slept all night long thinking about some adequate reply and there you go!

My wife's story.

If somebody wears a gold liripipe on his biretta, it is just a tribu

Yes, there are mistakes in the blogs published here, just as there are in the articles published somewhere else. Unfortunately, mistakes are everywhere, even in a textbook which is supposed to be 'flawless'.

I mean grammar, spelling or punctuation errors by 'mistakes'. It seems it's inevitable for learners to make some mistakes when they're writing.  In fact, making mistakes is part of learning. It's hard to imagine you'll be fluent in English without making any mistakes. 

It's true you can even s

If somebody wears a gold liripipe on his biretta, it is just a tribute to his doctorate degree, but nothing more for me. Our same mortarboards sit next to each other in the closet and I am sure that my biretta always asks her companion what its master is up to. And, I tell you, his master is always up to something! To be a good chemist is a true temptation! He always knows the right mix to make a man get drunk or to make a lady feel excited. He is a great mixologist and a great deipnosophist and

When my friends and I decided to go to Perth for our holiday, I told them that one of the places that I want to visit is the Pinnacles. The last time when I was there, we didn't have enough time to drive further to North of Perth.

So, a day before our departure from Perth (this time we decided to be there for 8 days), we drove to Pinnacles. Unfortunately, that day was one of the hottest days in Perth. The drive to Pinnacles roughly about 3 and half hours. As usual, my friend Dilla and I decided t

Hi I am Leandrit, native Albanian with good knowledge of English. I would like to help someone learn english in exchange for him to teach me German.

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Hello Everyone,

I'm not very choosy when it comes to write. My EC have given us a great platform to improve our English. I remember I took so much time to write my 1st Blog.

It was about EC members, I dedicated that blog to some of my good friends in EC. I made so many friends in EC from different countries. It was a great experience.

I may not be good in writing but trust me I'm much better than before.

My friends helped me improving my English, we used to have conference calls on Skype. First time

A tweet of a mayor in Japan generated argument on gender segregation. He tweeted that "Is this a gender segregation opinion that I don't want male nursery staff to help my daughter change clothes?". I think her daughter is a little child who is around 3～6 years old. He said they  sometimes switched to female nursery staff to help female babies change clothes because of complaints like this.

There are various comments about this. For example, "It is reasonable for a female to be uneasy about male

Yes, you say 'as was expected', 'as follows' or 'as is well known'  - not 'as it was expected' or 'as it follows' or 'as it is well known'.

You shouldn't add the pronoun 'it' after the 'as', because 'as' acts as the subject - you don't need another subject 'it'. For example, you can say 'Expector will add another comment on the blog today, as happened yesterday."

The word 'as' can also act as an objective or complement, for example, "MyEC members keep writing blogs, as they did last year."

In addit

learning a language is a fun, skill, interest or maybe an educational demand. There have been many seemed or observed being keen or critical of having a high command over a language spoken internationally. People having started from initial stages; learning a language are often seemed nervous and normally less confident, because most of the learners think that one should have countless words and an outstanding way to convey his messages to others rightly and vehemently which we all know is impos

"Steve Jobs," the founder of the company (Apple died) software, after a long battle with cancer and left behind when he left the company reached a market value of US $700 billion, the most expensive company in history.
Read what he wrote, "Steve Jobs", a bedside before he died days later.
“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. In the end, wealth is only a fact of life that I am accu

Timing is everything ! Ever wondered why we always say we have no time ! When actually everything is possible ! you just got to manage time. Time management is one of the greatest thing to do, everything in life needs to be managed, therefore time is the most important. Every great person knows the value of time so, they use it efficiently. In this world every people would have many goals ! Time could even help you achieve your goals. Some people say they are busy, I would say busy is just an ex

I am going to say a story about a person named Ramu. Everybody in that village used to call him a fool. 

One day Ramu saw an elephant passing through the village center. This elephant is a domestic one and moving along with the owner of the elephant. Those days, the symbol of richness or wealth is ownng an elephant.Other wards only the rich can maintain the elephant. 

Ramu asked the owner of the elephant " Will you give this elephant to me?". There is another person known to be wisest person in th

Most of us got Mosquito bite once in our life time. Have you anytime thought from Mosquitoes angle? Let us think from their side

Mosquito is a small creature in this world. Female mosquito needs blood of animal or human for surviving. We, humans started killing mosquito since it bite us first time. See one thing, It is biting us today irrespective of we killed them many times.

What is Mosquitoes Attitude? See the courage of a small mosquito. It knows that risk of dying in every bite, but it want t