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Hello, everybody!

It’s not a secret that EC is one of the best places not only to communicate but to improve your English. To do it we should develop different skills, such as  listening, reading, speaking and writing. It’s great that we have different interesting activities here to develop our written skills.  Our dear teacher Tara has a wonderful ability to find and give us various exciting tasks. We are very grateful to her for it.

But I noticed that only few members here try to improve their s

Hello, there!

I'm  not sure whether you are aware of the ongoing  English Pronunciation Class  right here at our MyEC.  Currently,  Lesson 3 is in session.  However,  it's not late at all.  You could still join the rest of our club members  and  learn about the Sounds of English. This is a study about the 44 sounds that form the pronunciation of all the words in the language. This is an  essential part of English that one must learn if he is serious about improving his pronunciation. Why don't yo

                                  I like calmness 

   In calmness, a person can think in a balanced way.with calmness he can solve his problems, In calmness he can deal with people and they accept his words.

do you want to be calm ?

I see this nice poem in the Galina’s blog "If" by Rudyard Kipling, then it inspires me , because I feel strongly every single line . I think the poem is written for mankind in general , not only for the poet’s son .
Some exemplary poems like this one , should be read not for its nice rhyme or rhythm , but we would rather read them worthily for its right attitude and significant content.
I search for the poet’s life. I have known that he was an English poet, received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Lit

            My Teachers and friends.

        Oh, I know I need to talk about penguins or another pets like Teacher Tara’s advice. But hihihi….you know, there aren’t any penguins or shark or dolphin (except in Zoos)…..so it’s better if I describe my dogs. Now, first I want to introduce them to you. Their names are Gold and Silver.

        Let’s listen to their dialogue….

Gold       : What’s happen, Silver? You see red.

Silver     : hhh....It’s a stupid question..…Now, I’m so sad and hurt. Didn’t you

Please write a caption for the picture in the comments bellow.  The best caption will be added next Wednesday! Thank you!

hey guys.. I'm very sorry but I will be away from home for some time! Finally we have warm days here so I'm visiting my mother :) Internet is poor here so I can't be online as much! But from time to time I will keep You informed about what is going on here and maybe will post some new photos! 

Today when I logged on here I was very surprised :) I was smiling while reading new comments :) Thanks guys for making my day :) See You all soon. Sweet hugs to everyone. I'm gonna miss You

I recently attended a conference in China. Several medical researchers or experts from English-speaking countries, such as the US, were invited to the conference, too. Most of the audience, however, were Chinese. So, you bet there were a few interpreters who helped translate what the English-speaking lecturers were giving into Chinese. Don't get me wrong - I was not one of the interpreters, but I did ask a few questions in English when it was time for the audience to ask.

I asked in English "Dr R

Hello all of my EC Friends... ^_^.

how are you doing these days..  I come again this time to share..

Actually I'm looking for English Native Speaker. or anybody who can speak good English from out of country. If you are in Indonesia wether in a holiday or you are working in my country especially in Banten Province. Please come to my place in Rangkasbitung city, Banten Province, Indonesia. there are many schools (elementary school, Junior High School and Senior High School). The students really nee

Below is the image that appeared on my screen when I was trying to go to my friend's page.

I tried to visit other friend's wall but the warning didn't show up.
Did you see the same image on your screen when you tried to visit one of your friend's page? Do I have to proceed in spite of the warning? Please advice.

Thanks.

Here I'm again to tell you about my 3rd erperince, I skip talking about the 2nd one because my friends are waiting for the 3rd one more. Therefore, I will talk about the 2nd one later on.

In the 2nd of July, I started teaching in an institute. I taught kids for about month and a half. They were divived into 2 levels: Safari 3 and 2. The number of Ss in Safari 3 were just 7 while they were more than 26 in Safari 2. There were 2 different courses for each Safari.

Before starting the courses, we mad

It's nearly midnight here. I'm still going to speak with some guy from Brazil.. I can only say that I had so much fun today! You guys are great. 

When I first came here I didn't think I would have much friends here, but now I have quite few :) 

My girls are sleeping and finally quiet here. Tomorrow will be new day and new experience. Looking forward to hear You all again :) Feels like I have been traveling all over the world. 

Okay that's all for today. Take care and see You soon 

Hello everyone who is reading this! 

I know my English is not perfect but I think it's good enough to help others :) 

I use Skype and spend lot of time on Facebook. 

I have two wonderful daughters, so a lot of my time goes for them. Soon they will start school and I will have more free time. That means I will have to find what to do! 

I like to communicate with people, making new friends. I'm glad I found this place.

Writing Challenge: Live from the Penguin Cam

dialogue of Penguins

We have 7 penguins; Speedster, Complainant, Yellowish, Cheery, Rational, Crazy and Forgetful.

Please read this dialogue among them.

Complainant:

Please be quiet, Speedster! [swimming fast]

I'm sick to death of your behavior! You should get the brakes fixed on your head!! You're dicing with death every time you are swimming!

Yellowish:

Yes! Last time he frightened the life out of me!

Cheery:

But taking up swimming since he was here

Hi guys, what's up?

First of all, I have to apologize for the long time I don't come here. I have been studying and working a lot these days and there are so many things to do that I stayed too much time without stopping by. Anyway, I miss you all!

Well, yesterday was the Friend's Day here in Brazil. Is there a separated date for friends where you live?

Here in my country people celebrate this day text messaging, giving their friends some gifts, hanging out together... there are many things we can

   Did you know that organizators of Olympic Games prepared for participants 150 thousand condoms?

It is such a great number! If we regard that there will be 10 thousand sportpersons, after a small but fast calculation we can count 15 condoms for each person! The Olympic Village is going to resamble Sodoma in Bible, is going to be a sex,drugs and again sex city! 

Why am I so poor and cannot go there? Kidding, I wouldn't if so:)

I hope Poland gains some medal, and all Poland's sportperson will end t

We've done a few serious writing challenges over the last few months, and I'm very impressed by how much you have learned about punctuation, capitalization, irregular verbs and countable/uncountable nouns. This month, let's have a little fun!  

Your Task

1. Check out this Live Penguin Cam from the Vancouver Aquarium.

2. Spy on the seven African penguins for a while. What do you think they are thinking? If they aren't around, it could be night time. Visit again later. Feeding time is really fun! 

3.

Consonant Sounds /p/ and /b/

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-{ Click 'HERE' for the transcript of my voice }-

It has been a long time that I was not here...

2 years maybe more. I don´t know. I found great friends here and am happy to know them.

Now is the life more different for me!
I am still searching for good friends and hope that this year changs things.---

Kiss

Nicole

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 Yesterday I watched a film called "Safe House". In contrary to the last film described by me (I remind You, it was " Thw VOW") it is a lively film of action. The main characters are of course CIA agents, who are involved in the big scandal, which is espionage by all spy agancy in all the world (e.g BDA, CIA,MI6).

With all my heart I wanna recommend this film to YOU:) But is it wortg going to cinema and spending money for tickets? I