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Hi everyone!

My name is Irina. I am native Russian speaker. I'm from Siberia, Russia. Now I have been living in Malaysia for 6 months.  I have part-time English course in British Council twice a week. It helps me to improve my English skills. In future I'm going to pass IELTS exam. I would like to find a partner who is interested in English as me. If your English level is intermediate and upper feel free to contact me to improve our skills together, to discuss interesting topics :)  Also, I can h

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Writing chalenge : Why I write

Write to connect people.

I don't really like to write. But when I read some blogs, how a blog can be a micro and a simplified information, and how a blog could provide many great essays and information, I realise writing is an art and a tool to brighten and broaden people's mind. Just like a painter, who try to describe and put his emotion in his canvas, a writer with his creativity has to put an effort to choose a word, and make a clear picture that is on his mind. Good writer can describe thi

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SPLIT WORDS

Some words can be divided by sound into two or more different words. For example, COMPASSION can be split into COME and PASSION. Here are some other split words:DEPEND : DEEP ENDNOBLE : NO BULLPURPLE : PURR PULLDEPART : DEEP PART, DEEP ARTDEPLORE : DEEP LOREJUDGEMENT : JUDGE MEANTJUNCTION : JUNK SHUNLONESOME : LOAN SUMHANDSOME : HAND SOME, HAND SUMDREADFUL : DREAD FULL[an excerpt from my book THE FUNNY SIDE OF ENGLISH]
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Positive encouragement…

In this week, I want to share one nice thing to every person which I notice in my self. I don’t always remember to do it, but, when I do, I’m amazed by the reaction. The little bit of compliments is enough to pull a smile out of some of the most stressed out moment. So I wasn’t surprised when I came across a study out of maximum people, that the same area of the brain lights up, when we are admires their task. And I realized again a positive complement is the perfect way to design life besides E

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Good Ways of Learning Vocabulary 3

Reading English texts method

The first principle of this method is that you have to read texts you are really interested in. And read texts mainly written by native speakers.

You may read literature, news articles written or on-line, elaborations about your specific professions or anything else, the most important words should be looked up in the dictionary and written in your vocabulary notebook.

While reading the dictionary, control what you can find around the new word. In most of the cases yo

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SPLIT WORDS

Some words can be divided by sound into two or more different words. For example, COMPASSION can be split into COME and PASSION. Here are some other split words:DEPEND : DEEP ENDNOBLE : NO BULLPURPLE : PURR PULLDEPART : DEEP PART, DEEP ARTDEPLORE : DEEP LOREJUDGEMENT : JUDGE MEANTJUNCTION : JUNK SHUNLONESOME : LOAN SUMHANDSOME : HAND SOME, HAND SUMDREADFUL : DREAD FULL[an excerpt from my book THE FUNNY SIDE OF ENGLISH]
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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

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Good Ways of Learning Vocabulary 2

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

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Good Ways of Learning Vocabulary 1

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

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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

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LANGUAGE OF HEART

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. 

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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

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Thank You, Thank You

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..

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 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

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ANOTHER BLOG POST ABOUT PUNS!

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?

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INNER PEACE

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

Are u agree?

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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.

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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

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Love

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...?

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