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Dear Captain,

Allow me to complain please. I need to pour out my nasty moods.

Finally I learnt what had happened from my mother. She told me Ling's hubby went bankrupt since his mistress had cheated away all his money and fled with her ex-husband. Oh my! What bad news for Ling! No wonder she called me to pour out her bitterness. Silly girl! Why didn't she tell me the whole thing!

I always thought the wife must be the first person to feel the change of her husband especially when the husband has an

Vocabulary teaching book method

There are a lot of vocabulary teaching books edited. You have to have a look around your local book shop and choose among them. Most of them classify the words by topics. For example they collect the most important words about "Family", "Describing people", "The weather", "Shopping" etc. They usually give you some filling gapes exercises and some pattern compositions. After learning the vocabulary and doing the exercises in a unit, now it is you who has to write a

Introduction

There are so many ways to learn vocabulary effectively and there is no rule about which of them you should use. First you have to be aware of your personal facilities and abilities. You must have time and silent circumstances, you need a good dictionary or/and a vocabulary teaching book, other books, internet access or CD-roms. Choose the means that are most lovable for you.
    Among your personal abilities your good memory and strong willpower are the most important. If your memory

Hey, don't get me wrong or try to put words into my mouth - I didn't mean that you don't need to study English hard. I mean that you don't need to speak or write a perfect or too polished or flawless English. I know you have reason to be fluent in English, but it really takes a lot of time and effort to be so. You should be proud of your English if you can understand what I just said or what I mean by saying that. 

Be proud of your English

I can tell you have already learned English so hard and fo

Why we close our eyes when we strongly laugh!! Why we close our eyes when we dream !!!Why we close our eyes when we give a deep hug for some one special !!

because ,, We can't see the most beautiful things in life , We only feel it. 

I think some times we need to act first, then think. When we are worried about some thing too much, our fear dose not allows us to take action. Maybe we don't want to leave our comfort zone.

If something worrying happened to us in the past or present, we are unable to deal with our emotions at the time as we become fearful about facing the situation. some times we may worry about the future, if we should not able to control of many aspects of our life,then we start to feel hesitant or fear about

I want to use EC to say my deepest gratitude who extended their help for the victim of typhoon haiyan in Leyte. Many countries have donated in terms of money, relief goods, medicine and other forms of help. The victims now there are beginning to receive relief goods..

 Listen to News: Meteor Explodes Over Russia ~ 19 February 2013

 Discussion Question: Scientists believe that this type of event happens about once every 100 years. Does a rare ocurrence like this justify the building of early warning systems from space?

 Any way of preventing major damages to us is always welcome in advance, mainly when it comes to the catastrophic results of big asteroids over the Earth's surface seen  in the example of the one that crossed the Russian sky in February this year

This picture is about puns, and it also reminds me how usually goes a conversation in the EC Chat hehe
Sigmund Freud claimed puns were an admission of weakness, a psychic release-valve in which humour alleviates the stress of repressing unpleasant truths... Screw him! I just think they're really funny! :D

Can you guess the actual words for these puns?

Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions

Are u agree?

For all EC members who put or not put comments here,

Dear Captain,

Something must have happend to Ling, and I am so worried about her yet I can't do anything since the gerocomium I am staying and working for is far away from her right now.

This morning she called me and told me lots of things. Through the phone, I could feel her gloomy mood. She kept telling and I was listening. Hmmm, it seemed she had a serious quarrel with her hubby this time. But she didn't tell me the reason. Alas! She is not a complaining person. I wonder what had happened.

Welcome to the Club. we are big community of english learners and like to connect with people all over the world and like to share opinion and suggestions...

Maximum we learner make excuses or claim for not moving ahead in a language learning due to we don’t have any time. We know time is a very important, if it gone away never be come back. It can fly, run out, be killed even make us confuse if don't grab it right way.we want to spend short time for learning and expect more to get that means wan

Why are we loving someone..? Coz.. we like him/her and we want take him/her to our hand... If you can honestly look at this matter it seem a selfish thinking...

So.. what do u think, Is this a selfish thinking...?

The other day it was brought up in EC chat that shall is used in asking permission. At that moment I thought about it for a minute and said I didn't think shall was ever used in a question for permission. This lead me to look into it further and I found my thinking was correct. I could find no examples of shall being used in this way. So where did they get this idea from? It was from the construction such as: Shall I open a window?.
At first glance I can see how this is taken as asking someone f

I have so many talented idol-singers, which i end up listen to their songs almost everday repeatedly. For me to listen a song is not so much needed to be specifically expert on something, for example understanding lyrics and such things, but it's simply trying to listen to its song and i don't know why i feel so excited suddenly with the tone, lyrics , voice ,etc if i know and like the singer. I believe that every person has different idol-singers that he/she fonds of. But some of you have the u

Dear Captain,

My summer holiday has terminated and now I am back to school again. It's so nice to see my roommates. This term we'll take an internship.

Fay came to visit me with her son who could walk and talk now. Hehehe, I am happy that little kid likes me. You know, I enjoy kids' love to me as I also love them so much. We three took a walk on my campus in the afternoon. It was a beautiful afternoon. When they left, the little kid gave me a few flying kisses! I was so surprised and delightful. F

 Interesting Facts In Easy English: The Spanish Flu Did Not Originate In Spain

 Discussion Question: Do you think a pandemic of this size will happen again? If yes, how will it be different? If no, why not?

    For certain, we'll have another pandemic in the future, once the viruses are always in often evolution whereas the science is a step behind , trying to beat them.

  I believe the difference in the next generation of viruses that we will face hereafter are the dimensions and seriousness.

  May