Dear friends! As I have dedicated all my life to education, I can't help congratulating all students and teachers of EC with Knowlege Day that starts another academic year in my country today. I sicerely believe that the only one great victory of the USSR was victory against illiteracy. You will not find any person who can't read or write or doesn't have any education in Ukraine as well as in other post soviet countries. So, September 1, Knowlege Day, is a holiday for all population. We rate ed

"Burnt City" is a part of a very ancient civilization (date back to 3000 BC), which was completely unknown to the world since 20th century. It was one of the largest cities at the dawn of the urban era. Wikipedia says: "The reasons for the unexpected rise and fall of the Burnt City are still wrapped in mystery. Artifacts recovered from the city demonstrate a peculiar incongruity with nearby civilizations".

In the pictures you can see the reproduction and animation of a drawing on a pottery found

      What are the limits of human ability? We have no idea. Few of us reach our limits. The Guinness Book of Record is an ongoing compilation of the possible. Every page describes an upper edge of human functioning. Each new edition list hundreds of prior records broken and hundreds of new ones created. What is striking is not the record themselves; it is the changing record- the continual surpassing, the pushing of the

When I look around in my country I can see many fat, obese people who resigned to healthy lifestyle or have never heard of it and who thanks to no movement and junk food gain day by day. In my opinion obesity started being worldwide problem and it is weird paradox that meanwhile in one part of our planet people are dying of starving, somewhere else they voluntarily decided to shorten their life by being obese.

As far as I am concerned obesity might even kill and it seems to me that many people un

As you know I was a old member of EC. Unfortunately,I turned from here.I feel hurt too much now.because in my turning, I lost my all good friends.I am begging you to forgive me and my mistakes.I came here again without my writing ability.I lost my writing ability also.

                                 I don't know how to recover my things all.what can I say to my friends.I don't know all of my dear friends what to say.I started to add you again.

Introducing Myself

      I would like to introduce myself. My name is Ghassan. I was born in Damascus ,the capital of my country Syria, in 1989. I graduated from Arab International University in 2012 with a degree in telecommunication engineering ,and before that I had my joiner high in Dr. Sami Droope school. i speak Arabic fluently. I have been studying English for quite sometime and i reached the advance level. I love math and physics but hate Arabic language classes. I work at MTN Syria as an

Hi friends,

                This is my first time to write a post here,so please guys if i did any mistakes in my writing,please let me know..

                i would like to visit eagerly other planets other than  this earth. i  am going to start a new life there ,will  like to meet  aliens  will make them as my new friends,.:P

  now my mind  got turn   to blank  as a white sheet,so i will tell you friends.  when i   am return to  this earth after logged on this site  what i  have done there and 

Yes, everyday we are facing a lot of problems around us. In true sense , we are bound to bear them. But, to me, the biggest challenge is Lack of proper education. I am sure, you may notice, I am going to describe a topic which may sound a bit weird!

We, almost everybody, knows what is education, right? Yes, education is that thing which brings positive changes to a person after getting it. But what we see? A lot of people around us who have higher degree from reputed and well known institutes but

Dear Captain,

I wrote back to Markus, the man who asked help from me before. I don't know him, but he does know me. He lived in the gerocomium which I worked. Yet when he lived there, I had already left it.

The iron woman is his daughter-in-law. Now he is taken care by her. You know what, she doesn't allow anyone except her family to approach and talk to Markus. I couldn't understand such situation until Markus told me a story. Let me make it a short story. The woman wants to sell his farmland. So

Did you notice this month's writing challenge? Every month, Tara(the admin of MyEC) will post a writing challenge for all of the learners here to practice their English writing skills. Most of the members may find it interesting or helpful while some may find it so daunting. 

I'm glad that some of our members are always trying to participate in the challenge, and I can tell their English writing skills have improved so much. I've enjoyed all of their challenge blog posts, and tried to make a few

making a choice ... i think that making a choice in any field of your life is so hard esp if you see all the choices from one view ... and you are good in all of them .... and esp if the choice is critical and can affect your future widely .... 

wish a good choices for you all .... 

Most of us know about hand puller rickshaw. It is a mode of human powered transport by which a runner draws a two - wheeled cart which seats one or two people.

Around 1880, hand puller rickshaw appeared in India, first time in Shimla. And then later introduced in Kolkata (Calcutta, India).

Though, in recent times the use of human powered rickshaw has been discouraged or outlawed in many countries due to concern for the welfare of rickshaw workers and have been replaced by cycle and auto rickshaw.

Have You Heard about the "Ice Bucket Challenge?"

The Ice Bucket Challenge aka ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is an activity involving a person having a bucket of iced water poured over their head and then nominating someone else to follow it. Video evidence of the drenching  is shared on social media and the nominee can either accept the challenge, participate with it and donate money to the ALS or just refuse and donate a greater sum of money. Those asked to take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge have onl

Who are your favorite EC members?

Hello guys, this is a fun thing!
I encourage anyone of you to list of your top 10 favorite members of English Club at the comment.( random, In any order).

It is up to you if you describe why you voted them or simply write only their names.

Your top 10 list of your favorite English Club members will be hidden at the comment, it will remain confidential until September 15,2014.

Anyone can participate, you can vote even less than 10 members but more than 10 at your vot

This coming 31st August 2014, we Malaysians are 57 years old. Well, actually the country is much older than that, if taking into consideration that one of the oldest rainforests (130 millions years old) is in Malaysia, but it is 57 years of independence from the British rules. In the spirit of being independent, I want to share with all of you something unique, weird and quirky about Malaysians. In fact I've written a similar subject in my previous blog; Only In Malaysia, but in this blog I want

Pollution is now one of the world's biggest problems, especially in developing countries, such as China. The economic growth may be to blame. With the rapid economic growth, China is now the second largest economy in the world, and at the same time pollution, a byproduct of the development, has accompanied the growth to come. People are now so familiar with the environmental pollution, such as air or water pollution - the sky is no longer blue; the rivers aren't clear any more.

Beijing, the capit

It doesn't matter when or what you started.... What matters most is to know how to finish it even before u think of starting..

      This is a site whose aim is to help us  learning English , so it is supposed that we are just for the sake of learning English and nothing more.Therefore, we are not here to make friendship , even though it can happen.So, we are not  obliged to give much  more attention to the people we talk to either their names, age,family members, job or any personal details especially if we dont like to talk about it.The problem is that many people dont appreciate that privacy we want to have.