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Back in 2006, Scholz & Friends, an ad agency, (more like Yogi Bear & Friends, Ha ha!) designed an ad campaign for a German recruitment website called Jobsintown.de. They came up with a slogan roughly translated as “Life’s too short for the wrong job.” The pictures are sort of self-explanatory. It is painfully obvious that the people in these photos do not seem happy. Duh! 

Quick question: You're stuck with a job that is sucking the life out of you. There are two options available. Naturally.

A) St

Sarah Andersen (the illustrator of this comic strip) speaks my language!

Honk the horn if this happens to you too! (Beep, beep!)

Have a lovely weekend lil EC birds! :3

Thanks for reading!

blog post dedicated to Behrad, because he likes Sarah Andersen's funny stories as well! :)

Most learners want their writings to be corrected by a Teacher of English, an English Native Speaker, or at least a member who's fluent in English. But you may see this rarely happen here. Have you ever thought why? Hey, who doesn’t want to be taught English freely?? Your writing may be understandable enough. Maybe it's about the language, not always the grammar. I think it would be a hard work to correct all the writings by the non-English Native Speakers. :)

You’re very enthusiastic in learning

Dear friends! This blog is just to inform you that from now on, my wife, Tanya will be posting mostly grammar-based blogs and I will go on teaching you some new vocabulary. I hope you will enjoy both activities.

So, here is the link to her first blog related to grammar:

http://www.myenglishclub.com/profiles/blogs/find-and-correct-a-mistake

Have a nice time on the weekend! (MY BIG SMILE!)

My dear friends! I decided to join my “star husband”, Danny  Clark,  and to teach you some English, too. As I have been teaching English grammar and training for TOEFL for many years, you will be getting mostly grammar-based tasks from me. So, let’s start!

To begin with, here are 10 sentences. There is at least one grammar mistake in each of them. So, your task is to find the mistakes, to correct them, to explain them (if you can) and to give your examples.

For example:

The given sentence:

He left b

      This morning I watched a  nice  performance. "The  secret garden"it's taken from a book byFrances Hodgson Burnett.

Do you think  Mr Craven   was a good or a bad father? 

I enter in “company bagh” Public Garden at 9 am. It is very beautiful garden in which there are bunch of trees and also due to good weather and spring season the environment is very pleasant. This garden has many blocks like Family Park, public garden, library, IT park and basketball court.

Due to off day I saw a few families in the park, children were playing and cheering in this park. The condition and the cleanliness of Family Park is not good.

In garden there are a lot of people walking talkin

Doctor: Good morning Mr. Hall. What’s brought you along today?

Patient: Well, you see doctor, I’ve been having these headaches, you see and…

Doctor: Aha and how long have they been bothering you?

Patient: Er, well, they started about, well, it must have been about three months ago.

Doctor: I see, and which part of your head is affected?

Patient: Well, it’s, it’s right across the front here

Doctor: Mm, and can you describe the pain?

Patient: Erm, it’s a sort of dull, dull and throbbing kind of pain

Docto

Sizda Bedar is an Iranian festival, held annually on the thirteenth day of Nowruz, Iranian New year. People leave houses to join nature, and spend the day outdoors. It is an ancient ceremony and a public holiday.

Today, (the thirteenth in outdoors), I woke up and felt my eyes were very itchy, because I’m allergic to spring……I went to a Day-night pharmacy to buy eye drops, there were two girls working in the pharmacy, one of them was working with a laptop, she was crying quietly!

I asked another

One day my brother brought a puppy in our house.I really hate dogs and I am scared of them too.All of them agreed to keep the puppy because its cute and I was the only one so, had to agree.They kept his name Hachi.

I had no problem when my family is there because they will do everything with him.But when they are not at home it was a great torture for me because I had to clean his dirty stool where he will pass it everywhere.Then, after cleaning his stool I will beat him like anything.

I continued

I bet it was hard to read the title, wasn't it? Your reading speed was interrupted as you were trying to 'decode' those weird-looking words. Very frustrating, huh? This is how a dyslexic feels every time they want to read something. Welcome to their world! Dyslexia is a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, however, that do not affect general intelligence.

Daniel Britton created a font that shows how difficult it is

Guard! I'm going to study at the University! How to solve the problem in the first year of study?

That is very good advice for students of first-year students, that are sure to be useful to you, as the first in front of you, a difficult year. If a new stage in life you care about, and annoying, do not worry, it's temporary. Even in the case where it is very hard, do not be discouraged. Study at the university have more advantages than disadvantages!

Here is good advice for freshmen students, as we

Dear members, you could use the next phrases to diversify your English.

I feel like a pizza

For example:

Let’s go out for a dinner tonight. – Yeah, sure! I feel like a pizza.

I am in the mood for chocolate

It means that your soul wants chocolate (It is my daily phrase  :)   )

I am craving a donut

For example:

 I am craving a big juicy steak!

I’m dying for a cup of coffee

For example:

I’m dying for a cup of strong black coffee.

I would like some water, please

It is more polite tha "I want"

Would you like some

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You know, before knowing someone new, it's always advisable to have a haircut and have a bath because the first impression is what sticks. Try to have a rest before coming to get-together. Nobody wants to look at you with that sleepy face when talking. It's not that interesting indeed! New friendships can make you have a good time if you really want  how to have a healthy relationship. If you want to be a dear person try to have  sympathy for your new company, otherwise you'll always have

-Living la vida Laowai-



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 A Busy Street:

I am once again in that street where I first saw you.  It is one of the busiest places in the whole city.  I remember the smile on your beautiful lips.  Even today the slight trembling of your lower lip tickles my entire self.  I remember you were strolling in the street, which was looking narrow and so small because of heavy rush of traffic and large number of people, who were passing through it.  The street is in the center of the city, and you were the center of my attention.  

My dear friends! One of our EC members, the Way to the Moon (hope, she is still on the Earth with us! Smile!), has just given me a great idea and I am about  to implement it right away! Sure, when you hear or read English, you should catch the general sense and all my previous blogs were about understanding English idioms. But it is another matter when you start speaking or writing yourselves. You should be 100% sure how to use this or that idiom or not use it at all if you don't want to sound f

The Australian education system welcomes the initiative students and focuses on independent learning. Here, you will not be forced to attend lectures and read educational materials, because students are expected to have responsible behavior and independent decision making.

Severe requirements for attendance are valid only in the laboratory and practical classes. In Australian universities, students are given materials recommended for reading before class. Reading this material is optional, but it