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Did you know that the Russian Tsar Nikolai II had spoken at least three foreign languages besides Russian? He knew French, German and English, and his English was just perfect. Dutch was he knew a little bit worse.

You will say he was a Tsar. No doubts, the Russian Tsar gained an excellent education.

But there starts another interesting chain of facts concerning his language teacher, Maximilian Berlitz. I am not going to retell the whole Wiki article, but the Tsar got an outstanding teacher and I

Being away from home, away from my family, is/was/will always be, an intricate experience for a home sick person like me.

My luck or my work which brought me to a new place demanded focus, perseverance, resolve, determination to concede and accept the fresh start to another life.

New surroundings, new folks, entirely different atmosphere, it all seemed too much to handle at first to me. But my goals were clear and precise, I was here for the betterment of my family.

We can gather all the fancies of

Finally, I can continue my second part of my blog post. In this blog post, I want to share my experience to develop my writing skill. Since there are various things that I do to improve my writing skill, I can't write them down in one article. It will be too long and boring.

So I divide them into 4 parts. Each part discusses one of four things that I do to improve my writing skill. On the first part, we discuss two grammar books that I recommend.



To remind you, here four simple things I do to i

According to the Cambridge dictionnary a "metaphor" is : Definition
an expression which describes a person or object in a literary way by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics to the person or object you are trying to describe.

Metaphors help us to express our understanding of the world around us. They add colour, vivid imagery and perhaps emotion to a sentence.

Here are sompe exemples :

My friend gave me the green light to head to his home.
Don't go on that side

Cheshmeh-Ali (""Spring of Ali") is an ancient recreational place, located in the south of Tehran and north of Rey. The spring is spot in the neighborhood of Ebn-e Babooyeh, Tughrul Tower, and below the Rashkan castle and next to Fath Ali shah inscription. In the past, carpet salers and people used to wash their carpets there, with their idea that the property of this spring water is good and clean for carpets and make them full lighter color by its mineral water.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che

Well, what is said is fulfilled.

Today I'm happy. How come? Easy, first: chatting with M. my friend in heart, second: joking with O., H-dg, Dr ll, and third: some entries in "education means..." discussion. Adding fourth: an extra day off (yes, today is a day off for me-) and fifth: some work do it.

Thus, I'm still get dressed with the bathrobe all day quiet, smiling and beaming, sometimes laughing, grinning like a Chesire cat, smirking, glad, pleased, delighted, cheerful, cheery, merry, joyful, j

Pematang Siantar is the second big town in my Province. It’s about 45 km away from my village Pematang Bandar and about 150 km from the capital of my Province Medan. The native ethnic of Pematang Siantar is 'Bataknese'. Most of the people who live in Pematang Siantar used Batak language in their life even in the market.

There is a famous traditional market in Pematang Siantar that is Horas Market. The name of the market is taken from the greeting of Bataknese ‘Horas’. In Bataknese when somebody

Is here a nice forum to learn english for English as a sencond language people?

The first day,When I sign in EC,someone tell me "go out here,there are so many erroneous grammar,everybody will ask you where are you from,how old are you,and what's your hobbies and so on." Isn't it?

I really want to improve my english,and this website just be provided by my english teacher,he's from America,I trust that I can make so many friends here who are also wanna learning english with heartfelt feeling.So if

      http://youtu.be/7OZ0wfxmRIU  Wonderful story of Ann Boleyn, the Queen of England and the wife of the King Hery VIII 1509 - 1547 that was beheade by her husband because of commiting adultery.

He was born in 1517 and died in 1542. Bedides, The six wives (queens consort) of King Henry VIII were Catherine Howard and Anne Boleyn, Henry's two queens who were beheaded, were first cousins.

 Anne Boleyn and  King HenryVIII

 Catherine of Aragon, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Parr and Jane Seymour.

In a lonely moment

A moment....

Some minutes,

Some hours or more.

It’s a moment.....

Sky in peace,

Blanketed clouds,

Dreaming stars,

the night asleep.

A book reads

Its own lines,

a flute plays

In my veins.

Hopes drafting routes – to

Climb the heights,

with future spouse.

Tears washes

Dirt of thoughts,

Grounded forehead

Inquires wrong deeds.

Mind admires created,

Soul praises creator!

Hisham Hussain, Puttalam, Sri Lanka.

This is a translation of the Tamil language original poem composed by me. This (dra

could someone tells me what's the diffrent between these two sentences when we use them in isolate means in single sentence?

I will come.

or

I would come.

v all have a hectic life no time to have fun or enjoy..v miss even a smile...bt m sure u will smile after watching these...........

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