Every year at this time, I have very unique feelings because the Iranian New Year is coming. We, the Iranians, prepare ourselves for the New Year by celebrating Chaharshanbe-Suri.Last Tuesday of the year, people get together in order to celebrate Chaharshanbe-suri. Chaharshanbe means Wednesday and Suri means red. In fact, They gather to celebrate one of the significant elements of the nature, "Fire". Moreover, people do not want the sun set so the festival begin from the evening until midnight o
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As you all may noticed this is a special web page dedicated to the learning of the English Language and it's a wonderful web-place to read, learn and Use the small quantity of English in your vocabulary skills.So let's get the English On!
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Do lots of women work in your country? Are they able to get a good education, and thus a good professional job? If they work, do men/husbands share the work at home?In the USA now, over 50% of women work outside the home. Men in this generation help at home; for instance, my son-in-law is an excellent cook. I have even told him to think about starting a restaurant! Woo! Woo! I would go there all the time.And here in the USA, men help taking care of the children, but they don't do much ofthe clea
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Do you want to speak English well? Do you already read and write English? Are you able to practice your English with a native speaker? Here are some ideas to help you and to understand modern American culture as well. First you have to answer the questions I asked you above, then we can get started from there.I will give you some subjects to discuss and you must write what you think would be a good dialogue. When I figure out how to talk on this program, when we can chat in English and see just
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A short story by Josef Essberger The discovery of a body in the Paris Metro early one morning was not particularly unusual. That it was headless sent a frisson through the sixth arrondissement, but the incident went unnoticed outside Paris. Yet there was clearly something strange about the case. It was hardly as though the body had been decapitated to frustrate identification, for it was fully clothed and none of the owner's personal effects had been removed, save of course for his head. The Par
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In case I die with dirty feet I pray that in that moment fleet God grant at least before I part Sufficient time to cleanse my heart.Josef EssbergerRead more…
A short story by Josef Essberger She was walking lazily, for the fierce April sun was directly overhead. Her umbrella blocked its rays but nothing blocked the heat - the sort of raw, wild heat that crushes you with its energy. A few buffalo were tethered under coconuts, browsing the parched verges. Occasionally a car went past, leaving its treads in the melting pitch like the wake of a ship at sea. Otherwise it was quiet, and she saw no-one. In her long white Sunday dress you might have taken Gi
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In this writing challenge you will write a puzzle. The puzzle question is "What am I?" or "Who am I?".Instructions:1. In the comment section guess the answer to my puzzle or another writer's puzzle. (Make sure to put the name of the writer in your guess. Example: Tara-Is it a potato?)2. Write your own puzzle in the comment section. Each puzzle must have 5 sentences. Each sentence is a hint. Make it as "tricky" as possible.3. When the challenge is over I will invite everyone to come back and prov
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A LITTLE mouse once caught in its paws a camel's head-rope and in a spirit of emulation went off with it. Because of the nimbleness with which the camel set off along with him the mouse was duped into thinking himself a champion. The flash of his thought struck the camel.'Go on, enjoy yourself,' he grunted. 'I will show you!'Presently the mouse came to the margin of a great river, such as would have cast down any lion or wolf. There the mouse halted, struck all of a heap.'Comrade over mountain a
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I have decided to finish a project I began with my students in Mexico. That project consists of taking the 500 Most Frequent Words used in the English language and finding their equivalent meaning in Spanish. We finished the first 10 Lists (250 words), and they are online now at http://timnew.com/esl . I am adding the other 10 lists today, but initially they will just be English. If you are a native Spanish speaker, I'd love your input! I will mostly be using VOX Spanish and English dictionaries
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Silence of the heart, not only of the mouth-that too is necessary.Then you can hear GoD every where:In the closing of the door,In the person who need you,In the birds that sing,In the flower ,the animals-That silence wich is wonder and prise.Starting with silence,Mother TeresaRead more…
This entry is the first of mine. I'd like to use English as the second language. For me, it's very important because my majors are almost written by English. But the problem is: Every time we read a short text, an article, a book etc. there are a lot of new words. Therefore how to remember and learn all those words? Everyone often advises we should learn 5 new words every day. That advice is very good. But maybe it isn't still enough to have a large vocabulary. Besides we still have many things
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irst time when I came across with an vector graphic editor. There wasn't any good tutorial, there wasn't even Inkscape yet. There was Sodipodi instead. I thought then, that when I learn to use it, I will write an tutorial by my self. Now time have fled. New tutorials and manuals have appeared. The Inkscape was born. But I feel, I'm still not competent enough. Now there isn't any need to write an tutorial by myself anymore. But I already had decided to do it and I want to see if I'm actu
Love is the Water of LifeEverything other than love for the most beautiful Godthough it be sugar- eating.What is agony of the spirit?To advance toward death without seizinghold of the Water of Life.
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Valentine's Day is just around the corner and love is in the air. It must be time for Writing Challenge #3. Here are two questions for you. Choose one and write a paragraph in the comment section.1) How did you meet your current romantic partner?OR2) How did your parents meet?Now for the "twist". Your paragraph does not have to be true. You can write the true story or a fictional story. Readers can guess whether your paragraph is true or not (use the comment section). When the challenge ends(wai
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When you find something you like you should "share the wealth" or "let others in on your little secret". These are two idiomatic phrases native speakers often use. We say this if we find a great restaurant, product, or even a reliable babysitter!Many of you have left comments to say that you appreciate the learning opportunities on MyEC. Have you shared the wealth with your friends and family? To invite others to join this community, simply click on Invite at the top of your page.Some members ha
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Thank you to everyone who took the first writing challenge! Your mini introductions were great. I hope that many of you will add introductions to your own "My Page".Here is another writing activity we can do together. This is something I used to do with my writing students. They loved it! It's called "Chain Stories". I'll write the first line. Whoever reads this blog first can write the second line in the comment section. The next person can write the third line...The story will continue in the
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It would be great help to me as well as to all the member of the Forum... and we will surely appreciate ur work... So i invite u to my public word as well as voice chat room.... which is created on skype.. with the aim of Learning Spoken English with the help of Advance speaker as well as from helping each other..According to me voice chat is more important to improve Spoken English.. so I have created this forum... and i feel happy to tell u that within period of 22 days there are around 89 me
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I have created a public Chat for Improving Spoken English Language. It's totally free!! forum at your convenience, So take this opportunity for a fun learning experience...etc......Here we can help each other by practicing Spoken English Languages, remember we mainly know how to write but when it comes to speak we hesitate, we lost our confidence specially if we are speaking in public space.Here we can Chat orally i.e with voice and thus practice helps us to improve a lot --" http://www.skype.coRead more…
