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Hello my friends!

When passing by your precious blogs and discussions, I sometimes come across some mistakes: grammatical, spelling and others concerning structure and punctuation. Every time that happens, I feel like I need to correct them; howerver, I hold myself back and say," What if my correction hurts the feelings of the person in question; what if that person feels like his/her English is not good and stops writing again." To be honest with you, I won't be able to live with this burden. As

       Happy Durga Puja to MyEC friends!

Durga Puja

Durga Puja is an annual Bengali festival that celebrates worship of Hindu goddess Durga.It includes the worships of Shiva, Lakshmi, Ganesha, Saraswati, Kartikeya and Mahishasura also. Modern tradition have come to include the display of decorated pandals and artistically depicted idols of Durga exchange of Bijoya Greetings and publication of Puja Annuals.

The dates of Durga Puja celebrations are set according to traditional Hindu calendar and t

I wanted to thnks all my EC friends for helping me improve my english ..... yesterday i did my first presentation in english infront of too many people from different countries and it was awsome , My professor was surprised !! 2 years ago i was not able to speak english at all but since i joined EC i learnt too much and i took away my shyness now i am able to speak without fear but with great love and motivation , thnks to all my EC friends for your help and great encouragement and motivation :

Well, I believe that it’s already been a long time since I posted a non-poem blog.  This time, I’d like to tell you a story, a story about two angels who inspire me so much.

And…the story begins…
A few months ago, I joined a programme called Kuliah Kerja Profesi Guru or The Practice of Teacher Profession (the main reason why I left My EC for a few months was this programme). It is a compulsory subject to take, because without joining the program, the undergraduates will never be the graduates. Thi

I always wake up having the same routine. Working to earn for a living, eating food to satisfy hunger and sleeping, a reward for a hectic day. But then I'm tired and bored, I wanted to try new things, to explore beautiful places, to discover new stuffs and most importantly to unwind. Ever-since I started working that has been my dream (of course aside from becoming a financially independent individual) until now I'm still waiting and hoping for that precious moment.

I'm Asian and here in Asia we

Hello friends,

Tara organized a new challenge for us; it's about comparing 2 photos. They must have similitaries, but at the same time, some contrasts too. So, your challenge is to compare the pictures and to answer my questions about them

So here are the 2 photos. First one wastaken in Rome, Italy the second one in Türkler, Turkey.





Questions:

1.What are the similitaries about those 2 photos ?
2.What are the differences ?
3.What can you say about the architecture of those 2 buildings ?
4

Hello all dear EnglishClub members,

This is my first blog. I would like to introduce myself in my this first blog. My name is Lakhan from India. I'm a student of software engineering. My hobby is making new friends. I want to be software developer in my life.

My English is very week because I was a student of hindi medium. It's very necessary for me to speak English because in my study everything is in English. So I want to improve my English. I hope I'll get good knowledge about English from Eng

Thanks Tara for inviting members here to participate at another interesting challenge, compare and contrast. Finally, I chose two pictures of mine.They look similar but different.

Here is my contribution. The first is my second letter,  I recieved it in 2011, and the second is my first letter recieved on March 22nd, 2010. Both were my letters from my lovely friend, Atika from Algeria.

Picture#1 :

Picture#2 :

The questions :

 
1. what's similar about these pictures?

2. what's different about these pi

Just click on: http://thoen-djank-tulen.blogspot.com/

then we can share each other everything in chase for our English improvement

       Creativity is the ability to invent or imagine something new. Everyone is creative, but some people act on their ideas and other don't.

There are many ways of being creative .

Evolution of ideas

Creativity is not only about new ideas, It is also , about making improvements to existing ideas If a car designer  creats a more comfortable car ; he builds on all the changes made by designerin the past.

Butting ideas together

Two or more ideas can be combined to creat a new ideas. If you join the id

This challenge was inspired by English language teacher Dave Dodgson.I'll tell you the truth in a week or so.

Useful language:
"Tara, the first one can't be true..."
"I don't believe that you..."
"Number _ sounds like a true/made up story."
"I doubt that you..."
"You're pulling our leg about getting/having..."
"I think you made up ..."

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS **POEM**

I take it you already know of tough  and bough and  cough and dough?

Other may stomble but not you

On hiccough, throrough, slough,and through

Well done! And now you wish perharps,

to learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dredful word

That looks like beard and sounds like bird.

And dead it´s said like bed not ¨deed¨!

Watch oout for meat and great and Threat

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).

A moth is not a moth in mother,

Nor both in bother, bor

I collected the most suitable and compact links among them to template for us.

I still read them time to time !

http://my.englishclub.com/page/winning-page

http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/get-the-most-out-of-ecs

http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/i-dont-know-what-to-blog-blog

http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/writing-challenge-25-7-secrets

http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/alis-myec-welcome-message

http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/read-in-english-with-tara

http://my

     Hello everybody, I've been trying to post new photos for about a week, but it doesn't work. I've been told that the uploading process has been successful and that I've just needed to get the photos approved. I've been waiting for about 4 days and nothing has happened.

Does anyone have an idea why?

     I have another problem, I posted 3 photos on 23th Seb. The photos were posted and I got comments on them; however, after some days I've noticed that 2 of these photos were deleted.

Can anybody h

A boat docked in a tiny Mexican fishing village.


A tourist complimented the local fishermen
on the quality of their fish and asked
how long it took him to catch them.
.



"Not very long." they answered in unison.


"Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more?"


The fishermen explained that their small catches were
sufficient to meet their needs and those of their families.


"But what do you do with the rest of your time?"


"We sleep late, fish a little, play with our children,
and take siestas with our

A teacher friend put out a challenge for English language teachers to provide two photos that English learners could use to compare and contrast. Another teacher friend (a member of MyEC) suggested I challenge the MyEC members to take up this challenge. Are you up for the challenge? Here is what you have to do: 

1) Open a new blog post.

2) Post two photos that have some similarities. (your own photos please)

3) Use the title Compare and Contrast.

4) Write a few questions for your visitors.

4) Review

Hi, my lovely friends..I've just got this nice picture a few days ago. These guys are my nephews.Hope you like it ;)

As usual, your commentary and caption are required :)

"Tell me you love me or else!"...the winning caption was submitted by Tara Benwell. Well, thanks so much guys for submitting your lovely captions. I owe you a lot..See you on the next Wordless Wednesday ;)

I wanna thank you very much

Cause you are here with me

Do you know how long I have been misled?

Keep walking through the night without any light

Get lost and alone in the peculiar dream

Get adrift in the sea of doubt

Then, you light up the lighthouse on your island

I feel the helping hands holding me

You know, my lady, those hands are yours

You wake me up from my never ending restlessness

You teach how to be a better man

You teach me how to love everything I own

You teach me how to treasure this life

You sh

Many people tend to evaluate a person from the very first meeting thinking that the first impression one leaves is the most honest and shows his/her real character.Accordingly, that person will work his/her socks off to leave a good impression on the host. That's pretty recommendable and important as long as the person acts and behaves as he/ahe truly is. Unfortunately,some people misunderstand the concept and the essence  of "the first impression" and start to fake their personalities and appea