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My simple poem

SIMPLE THINGS

I have a need of simple things,

The sun, the moon, all life begins

To start to live one gets to see

To love, the kind in poetry

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Story About My Painting - What The Unexpected Things To Expect In Dubai

I did this painting in August last year. The painting is about the Dubai Creek.2346522364?profile=original

The place where my colleagues and I used to spend our weekend night. Perhaps this is the most authentic Arabian spot which still remain as it is.Suddenly I thought about why don’t  I write about what I know about this place. Certainly about those things I found out which I never thought before about this place.

People were always asked me how does t

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Controlling Our Temper....

hi guys...  i want to share with you this story I've read in fb... hope you'll like it  :)

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The Fence

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily, gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper t

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Let's Write!

What to say about my writing skill?

The more I learn, the little I know. The more I uncover, the more remains hidden.

Despite of my learning English, reading habits, plus other extra efforts, I still can’t find myself to write creatively. Whenever I attempt to write, I always hit the wall and that put me to a stop. I am useless with compartmentalising. So confused as to how I should start and what to write first. Everything seems to come rushing into my head at the same time. Then all of a sudden

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In my opinion, it will not detract from our inportance,if the aid of the others helps us to reach what/where we are now , and it's wrong to think for  doing everything without the help of the others,  and being snooty for asking that , we make all this just when we haven't a great confidence in ourselves , means when we are really weak ............. but when we are strong we never feel in this .

When we get to a certain level of ability ,we will receive the help of the others with spirit of grati

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2346522324?profile=originalDear the readers,

In our life we need some competences in getting knowledge and information, such as Listening, speaking , reading and writing. Reading is one of interesting skills to have for every body. Here  I want to tell how important the reading is. By reading  some body can get some information and knowledge. This activity  can we find in Western culture. Reading is very common in there. we can find many people do this in  many public places like in a bus, traim, plane, train or in many  c

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Old Member of MyEC

Josef Essberger  : Hi Nadiyah, how long have you been learning English language in MyEC?

Nadiyah               : More than two years, since 2009, precisely, Teacher.

Josef Essberger  : I wonder why your English has not much improved lately.

Nadiyah               : I wish not to be fluent in English

Josef Essberger  : Why?

Nadiyah               : If I'm fluent in English language I will leave MyEC :D

Josef Essberger  : ???

Video version you can check it here : Old Member of EC

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Read newspapers. Read online news. Read short stories. Read articles. Read all kinds of sign boards. Read magazines, books and novels. Have you developed your reading habit yet?

Reading skill is essential. Reading is beneficial and feasible activities.

When I first started my secondary school, I used to borrow English story books from the library. On the way home, in the school bus, I took out and read it. As I recall, I was not really reading it, not to mention that I did not even understand it.

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Stop translating while speaking

English is not the language that can be tracked by translation. However, practicing it in four different common ways is the core point. Listening is the most distinct one amongst all. So while speaking, non native speaker think a lot of their own language, and this without doubt make English very tough and kind of hardship to be properly spoken. Fluency would be impossible by keeping translating while speaking English. Translation itself is complicated task though for experts so what about learn

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About
Hello! I'm Andrei from Ukraine. My country is in East Europe. Usually there is snowing in the winter and hot during the summer. I live in city, but I like nature.
I'm IT-analyst in retail company. I want to tell about the life of an employee in Ukraine.
I'm looking forward to beginning dialogue with many people.

Anyway...

When I come first I take the key at the reception and open the door to the room of our department. After a night in our small room is stuffy.  So I open a window at once.

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My City

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My name is Shane, and this is my city. I live in Sydney, Australia. Sydney is famous for its beautiful harbour, Harbour Bridge and Opera House. Sydney is on the eastern coast of Australia between the cities of Newcastle in the north and Wollongong in the south. There are many beaches to visit and I love spending my time down at the beach. I especially like the beaches where there are not many people.

The view from the Botanical Gardens to the city centre and harbour is amazing. The Botanical Gard

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What The Hell Was I Thinking?

Half of this piece was written during the earlier part of 2012. When I received the news that my father was dying, I decided to finish it before his passing. He left this planet on October 22 2012. This one is dedicated to him. The writing was very hard for me to even think of posting here. But, it's time for me to move on from the grief and begin living again. My next blog that's posted will be much more humorous.

What The Hell Was I Thinking?

Many years ago, I was out for a wild night on the tow

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Speak English even in Dream

English has always been my passion ever since I was a child. How was that possible? A mystery I could not fathom. None of my family member speaks English. Neither my friends. Not even my neighbours. Once, when I was about nine or ten years old, I tried to practice my English with a distance cousin. I uttered a few sentences that I picked up at school to her. Hopefully she would answer me back in English. Instead, she laughed at me.

Finally, I had the opportunity to practice my speaking at Seconda

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HELP!

I have to write a self certification letter of originality. Can someone help me how to write it?

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Is it just a new year according to the calendar?

or is it really a new year in your life?

How can it be a new year if you enter it with the same habits, same character and same fault without changing anything within yourself.

I will change myself for the better.

How can we change ourselves for the better ?

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Living in a strange city

    After many years conditioning, We have been developed an unshakable faith that we must have been stayed with families on new years eve.But things can go wrong as unexpectedly,there are some instances when you missed your family so much and wanted to buy a ticket and go on the day that you had planed.However,if you were in china,i am sure you won't do those things as you anticipated,even though you are going to buy an air ticket you have to queue for hours for getting the ticket,even more tim

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Listening is Vital and Challenging

To my husband’s credit, I watch a lot of movies and documentaries mostly in English for the past 2 years. It has become our habit to watch 3 to 4 movies everyday. These 2 days we have been watching Granada Television’s 7 Up Series broadcasted by BBC. It has eight episodes spanning 49 years. It’s a very interesting documentary about the lives of 14 British children since 1964, when they were 7 years old. I am sure some of you are aware of this documentary.

The challenge of watching this documentar

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Chinese Spring Festival is coming.

Chinese Spring Festival is the biggest festival in a year in China. This year, the festival begin at Feb 9th.(two days left.)

According to the wikipedia, the "Year" pronounced as "Nian" in Chinese Pinyin, was a monster in ancient times in China. The monster appeared and broke into villages to hurt people at the end of a year. In the beginning, people didn't know how to prevent YEAR from entering, and then, at another end of a year, when Year appeared again, a burned bamboo (cracker) just blew up

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