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Dear Captain,

Oh, what an exciting day! I can enjoy another 3 years' campus life again! I have passed the post-graduate entrance examination. My new school is far from home. But don't worry, it is not a strange city for me since it is Fay's hometown!

After this summer, I will fly there and start my peaceful campus life. I'll continue my instrument learning and write to you. My major is nursing. After graduation, I will work in the gerocomium. I chose the major by myself.

Captain, can I ask you a qu

Recently I read in a book written by a Professor of English that the question tag for Let me read the letter is shall I? I would like to know whether any Englishman agrees with this. What I have learnt is that will you? should be used with the above sentence.

Every one want to live with pleasant a luxury life. For this he work day and night and some time even ignore his best one in his life. Some time he reach at the top but he lost many thinks i.e love of mother, father brother and sisters or even wife and children.

On the other hand there are a lot of people they enjoy there life so much that they demage the life of his best relatives as will and the end he has nothing for his children or wife

In this blog, I want to share with you another famous Malay legend/myth. It is called 'Puteri Gunung Ledang' which literally can be translated as The Princess of Ledang Mountain. 

Princess of Ledang Mountain : Part I

Ledang Mountain is located between two states in Malaysia, Johor and Melaka. Legend has it that until to date, this mountain is being guarded by the legendary Princess who is a fairy.

According to the legend, Sultan Mahmud Syah, the eight King of Melaka was in a deep mourning due to th

White lie: noun. a harmless or trivial lie, especially one told to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. (Oxforddictionaries.com)

So, everybody lies. That's a fact. The question now is: What are those more used lies?

1# It's not you... it's me.

2# I'm ready in 5 minutes.

3# I've read and accept the terms and conditions.

4# Yes, i'm fine, thanks.

5# I didn't do it!  //  It fell by itself!

6# I didn't see you.. so i didn't greet you...

7# Do whatever you want, i don't mind...

8# I'll call you back // Pay you b

Hi everyone!

I just watch a short movie of Sony Corporation, it make me moving. Therefore, I want to share it to you in order to more understand than about the women around us and a person's value. The woman in movie is a robot, but not as well as other...she have the think, she have the feeling,...and she would like to be lived.

I'm certain you'll moving when watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgO8z3UkDNM

Have fun!

Dear Captain,

I am learning Xun recently. It's fired by clay pottery, one of the oldest porcelain musical instruments in our country at present.

Xun's history can trace back to the later part or the stone Age, and its rudiment were stones used by our ancestors for hunting. There were cavities formed naturally on them and gradually became an instrument as time went by.

My teacher is an amiable grandpa. He is 77, an excellent musician. He is good at many instruments such as Guzheng, Pipa, flute, viol

In India trains come to a stop on the platform. You can hear the announcement like this: Train No. ...... Parasuram Express from Mangalore to Trivandrum will shortly arrive on platform number one. But in England and America trains arrive at the platform. What about your country?

When it comes to "Carmen", the wild lady in a crimson dress, stomping with the lively music of flamenco first popped up in our mind.  But don't get carried away, "Carmen" should be a common name around the globe already.  "Carmen City", in the southwest of Mexico, is unexpectedly mesmerizing as well.  Why and how?  I'm in love with a boy from there, so I hope this explains everything.

Lisa, one of my feline housemates, was chasing her tail the other day, and it made me wonder.  To be precise, I

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
It is the only one international in scope.
It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of w

 Hello guys, I want  to let for you a picture about the  features of a perfect language learner that was shared on a Facebook group which I take part. This chart is very interesting because it summarizes all the most important aspects which any learner wants to achieve at any point of your  life as student.

 Analyzing the picture, I noticed how much I still need to get better as a "perfect learner". I'm just a newcomer when it comes to folow the rules expresses by this picture. For example, I nee

Something ephemeral important or not important ?

I'm afraid we don't speak the same language...
What do you think about it? Comments are welcome :)

Why study abroad gives us a good education?

I am an Indian, to be precise a Keralite (a person from the state of Kerala, where the native tongue is MALAYALAM - the longest palindromic language in the world). In my state as well as in other states of India, people commonly ask What's your good name? instead of What's your name? No Englishman will ask such a question. Indians think that it is a polite question. But the insertion of good does not make the sentence polite. A teacher will ask their student What's your name? but a student shoul

~ John F. Kennedy ~ 

~ Mother Teresa ~ 

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
~ Jimi Hendrix ~ 

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

ONE DAY

So many people have asked me what the best grammar book in English is. To tell you the truth, there are many grammars that are well worth mentioning. One of the grammars worth mentioning is A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR by Thomson and Martinet from Oxford University. The language used in this book is very simple. You can learn English grammar very easily and elaborately from this title.

A COMPREHENSIVE GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by Quirk, Greenbaum, et al from Pearson is the most comprehensive

LET'S is not the contraction of LET US.

LET'S is used for a suggestion. When you tell your father Let's go to the cinema today, you are just giving a suggestion. Here both you and your friend go to the cinema. 

But when you tell your father Let us go to the cinema today, you are just asking the permission of your father to go to the cinema. Here your father does not come with you to the cinema.

The us in Let's is inclusive of the person who you are talking to but the us in Let us is exclusive of th

Hello all My EC people :) 

This blog is for all my great students and friends who come to my group on Skype :) All together You make it so special :) 

Right now, few minutes before I upload this blog, I have been starring at my monitor, trying to figure out this live. What do I do? Spend almost the time here, working, playing games, chatting, etc. I was thinking about what my old friend i just meet after long time not see told me earlier. We meet each others in a holiday then she asked me ‘how was your life dear?’ this is a simple question but I am stunned after hear that, ‘eeerrr I am working’ I answered. “yes I know you are working, but how