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Idioms are the colorful aspect of any language. Using them as a non-native speaker, makes your speech less awkward. But remember, never translate them word-for-word (literally) into your native language. Do that and you'll get all topsy-turvy! Now, now, don't panic! Using them is quite delightful if you get the hang of it. It'll be fun and you'll enjoy speaking English much more.

Gild the lily: to try to improve what is already beautiful

Upsy-daisy (also ups-a-daisy, upsa-daisy): used to express

I was standing in our balcony last night with my parents and the moon is so very cool and the wind produced a rhythm like a whistle and I feel so very happy because that time we drink ice tea and suddenly I saw something like a falling star, so I asked my father about the falling star because I thought that the star is bigger than earth and what happen for us if the star falling down on earth. My father answered and he said it was a comet. He didn't explain it to me what is comet but instead he

I LIKE TO DREAM WHEN I AM SLEEPING BECAUSE WHEN I DREAM LIKE IRON MAN I CAN FLY WHEREVER I GO AND I FEEL VERY EXCITED. 

I know, I know. Another blog about accents. I searched MyEC and found 52 (or was it 58?) pages related to the keyword 'accent'. Honestly, I did not check them out. Why? I have my reasons, so don't ask! Here are a bunch of different types of accents that fictional characters could be recognized by them:

Slur: an act of speaking indistinctly so that sounds or words run into one another or a tendency to speak in such a way, esp. when someone is tired or drunk

Barney Gumble, well, the belly beer says

"There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says,  - “Morning, boys, how's the water?”     And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes,   -“What the hell is water?”    ~David Foster Wallace.

This blog entry has been 'inspired' by our sweet  noona^ and her last blog entry: a sad poem about feeling down for not being able to live up other people's e

Study after study shows the single most important factor determining the quality of the education a child receives is the quality of his teacher.

What makes a great teacher? Teaching is one of the most complicated jobs today. It demands broad knowledge of subject matter, curriculum, and standards; enthusiasm, a caring attitude, and a love of learning; knowledge of discipline and classroom management techniques; and a desire to make a difference in the lives of young people. With all these qualiti

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

ALLAH (GOD) CREATED HUMAN BEING....... For what Purpose?

Yes, it's an idiom, which means 'there is no limit to something'. 

You can use the idiom to say there is no limit to someone's success or achievement, for example, you can say 'The sky's the limit for anyone who really wants to excel at English'. 

The idiom can be so useful - it depends on how well you get it. You can also use it to say you can write whatever you want or talk about anything you like. 

However, that's not what I'm trying to say. What I mean is how much hard work we need to master En

To all members of MyEC and those who'll join us later:

Recently, I bumped into a status that really hurt my feelings. I don't intend to cause a ruckus and quote the exact words. Seriously, what would be the point? It was a pet peeve about the comments some friends, accent on friends, leave on each other's walls.

Personally, I'm glad that this particular English club is not a 'dating site'. The Terms and Conditions section has made it crystal clear for anyone who thinks otherwise. And it should, na

It is about two years since I come here---EC, after back from traditional Chinese spring festival, now I am in the office, typing something from my brain, however I don't know what can I record, the life is quietly flowing from my never-stopping work steps all the time, the current job makes me sure that time goes by silently and rapidly. When traveling from one city to another for work reason, the feel of a little bit tired of both my body and soul is always along with me. As one of mainly labo

Treatment:

So far life is there no disease can do any harm (except pain), when life is over, no science of doctors of the entire world can do any thing to bring even a single breath more than the last one exhaled.

But we have been advised besides having faith for good, must try to use every possible treatment to save a life up to the last……..using medicine and any available instrumental treatment. It is also like “pray”. It is hope and faith of having some miraculous results in the form of heavenl

Lions pretend that they are hurt by their cubs' bites in order to encourage them:

Somewhere in the jungle, the mighty jungle: --> (if you don't get it, we can't be friends). ;)

Papa Lion: Aggghhh! Have mercy, you mighty beast!

Junior: Dad, stop it!

Papa Lion: I'm done! I'm dead! So dark, so cold.... Ahhh!

Junior: Dad, for the love of Pete. Jeez...

Papa Lion: Don't forget who you are, Son. FINISH ME!!!

Meanwhile, in the human world:

Junior: Daddy! Daddy! Let's play catch!

Papa Human: Not now, Sonny Boy, n

Unlike most of the other answers here, language itself doesn't really come into it; English is perceived by many people as the universal language because of the former influence of the British Empire and the current influence of American political and economic hegemony.

It is possible to try giving a strictly linguistic explanation; it could be that English is a simple language which is relatively easy to pick up. English has no noun genders, no complicated morphology, no tone system, it is writt

Yes! You don't know it yet, but your personality is like a punctuation symbol!
(oh wait... yes, you probably know it now, since you've seen the graphic above already)

So... tell me!! Don't keep quiet! The world and EC need to know:
Which punctuation fits with your personality??

Mine is not really in that graphic, because it's something like this:

:3   <--- I like to introduce groups of people + I've a charming and cute cat personality :D

English is fun although im not an expert in the language.It had been months that i tried to get in the english club but it feels like a decade! Now im in i want to learn more about the language! I feel triumphant and gloriously happy just to be a member of the club..i hope maam joy can see this post..thanks for making it a requirement!more power to you and goodluck to me!i hope to learn more!

I am going to give you a warning before all, this only contain all my inflexible feelings

My heart keeps beating like crazy bringing me into an immense of anxiety. It doesn’t feel alright these recent days. Something was stuck inside my gorge like a clump that resists my breathing, and it feels hard to inflate my chest. I am not well. I know I am not fine. What has brought me to this state? What kind of past has led me to this way where now I often found myself off, deflated, and down.

…

I made up

That a peculiar interest attaches to the boyhood of great men will hardly be denied by any one who has given the slightest attention to the subject. The early exploits and aspirations of those who have performed memorable services to their country and their species, led mighty armies into the field, advanced the progress of humanity and civilisation, achieved important triumphs in literature and science, or associated their names honourably and indissolubly with some great profession, are matter