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The Wonder of Skype

Skype is simply amazing. It's an excellent alternative to costly international calls through mobile and land line excluding urgent situations.

 

I learned that EC members use Skype to converse with one another. It's an innovative way not only to practice their English in conversation but also a way to make friends. I wrote a blog about how I utilize Skype.

 

Link to my article.

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Pictures & Films

A friend of mine sent me this morning a link, hope she can stay with us as soon as she can. She knows how I wonder the sky, the nature, the winds,..., and my curiosity.

The video it's taken in that island which is in front of ours.

Tenerife and its nature

There you can see our "sea clouds" because here is a wind called "alisios" which blows between 200-400 meters (I think, maybe I'm wrong!). Wind catch and accumulate the humidity forming clouds up the mountains having water to the trees   that is c

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“TERRA INCOGNITA“

Since I am learning the English language (1986) my world has expanded.  Recently I started an adventure voyage into the “TERRA INCOGNITA“. Let’s see if there are others in this cyber portal who are also on a similar voyage.

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GLEE

Glee is one of series that I have been watching since February. I have been crazy in it since then. Rachel, casted by Lea Michelle, is just an awesome singer. Her voice is just incredible, I can say! And Kurt, is just amazing! Go here the song Defying Gravity and you'll understand what I am talking 'bout! Santana and Brittany are soooo cute! I have heard that they are going leis-ban? I haven't watched the second season so I don't know:( there is no channel FOX in Taiwan over here:( I have to wai
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Day 1 : Fly to Holland

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It was the plane we took from Taipei.

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We had three meals in total.  If you feel hungry, you would probably think they are delicious. But.. when you ate three meals continuously at the same day then... you would know what I want to say.

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Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand

We were here to transfer to Holland. The airport is clean, bright and full of Thailand style. It is said to be the biggest airport in Aisa. 

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The screen was showing us where we were at the time. 

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Finally

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This is my first time to go Europe from April 28 to May 11 this year. Everything in Europe is completely new, fresh and interesting for me. That's why I couldn't control myself taking about more than two thousand photos. At the same time, it was also a good chance for me to practice English. From the next blog, I will try to keep posting some of photos to share with you. 

 

The trip included three countries- Holland, Germany and Czech Republic. Before arriving in our destination, we had to fly for

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In the morning, I stepped out into the garden. My little girl followed me. She picked a flower petal of bitter melon and set up her hair. She asked me: Mommy, What‘s smell of flowers’ s bitter melon? I kissed up her hair and breathed a deep breath. I smelled the bitter taste of a drug and sweet taste of cake. My little girl shouted: Yeah! I smelled it, it was like a smell of a cake.

I caressed her hair and smiled.

Was life a combination of sweetness and bitterness?...

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Hello my lovely friends. How are you? First of all, I apologize for all of you that I couldn't announce the winner of April earlier nor the words of May. I am really sorry, but it was exams.
Now, I would like to introduce our winner of April word's challenge in A New Word Daily group. According to Our April's Scoreboard ...
 

Syubi = 10 

elena = 9

Adnan jan = 8

Monika = 7

Oksana = 6

Fresh = 5

deuce666 = 5

Maryna = 5

Narendra shukla = 5

Rabab = 4

Smiling moon = 4

Aang Anwaruddin = 4

MOMMY = 3
Sahar = 3

Abd Al-gha

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Have you tried out Fotobabble yet? This is a fun tool for talking about pictures. You need to have a microphone to use it.

 

The Fotobabble team has had its eye on MyEC since we began playing Fotobabble tag. Yesterday, they contacted me and invited us to test out their new feature: Fotobabble Slideshows. 

 

Will you help me test it out? 


Find more videos like this on EnglishClub.com

This is what you need to do: 

1) Choose a blog post on MyEC that meant a lot to you! It can be yours or a friends. Tak

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SILENCE!

SILENCE!
K. Rahman
Silentio Silentio Silentio Silentio Silentio
Silentio Silentio              Silentio Silentio
Silentio Silentio Silentio Silentio Silentio
This is a Spanish poem. Keith Mitchell, our Grammar teacher in Edinburgh, wrote it on the blackboard to make a point in relation to language, grammar and communication. The missing SILENTIO in the middle is the deviation from grammar but it communicates the intention of the poet and allows him to say what he wants to.
Silence is golden is a sayin
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Recently, I have saw a program recalled all the life of Michael Jackson. That program lead audience to recall all the life of Michael from ‘The Jackson 5’ period until his death, from a king on top of the world down to be a criminal who be judged in the court, from a youth example was respected for his wonderful charity to become a controversial person who involved into a scandal of crime for indecency with child ( I do totally not believe that accusation).

No body really know how much pressure a

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   A folktale is often intended to start building up a personality of a kid. The story of Malin Kundang is to teach a child not to hurt his parents let alone to insult them. The following story tells what happened to Malin when he spat on his mother’s face. He wouldn’t admit that the poor woman was his mother, because he was embarrassed to have a mother a poor woman clad in rags.

   My grandma told me the story. “In a village hundred years ago”, she began, “lived a very poor family with a son nam

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As we known, human get massive knowledges especial in medicine yield from animal experiments. Such as the findings about vaccines, antibiotics,etc. It seems that animal experiments are necessary for all of us human, whilst some people argue that using animals in scientific experiments is cruel and unnecessary. This topic is really hot, and it worth us discussing further. 

 

Let's see the supporters' reasons, first. People who support to use animals in experiments think the ethic of animal experim

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For millions of people, happiness is rather elusive. They've tried to buy happiness. They've tried to force it. They've sought it through pleasurable activities. But nothing has seemed to work for them. Researchers now believe that our brains are hard-wired in ways that, at least to some degree, determine just how happy we're going to be. In short, it's in the genes. At the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin, scientists have used advanced imaging technology to p
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               As Myanmar (one of the Asia countries) is developing country, there are many growing companies and organizations. Throughout the two decade, they got many experience in employee recruitment and human resource deparment emerge as importanmt issue among them. Now a day, they are trying to improve the capicity of the employees by creating happy working environment. Another fact is that they need to keep experienced emplyoees as other companies and organization want them.

             

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Las Vegas

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I was washing an auction show on TV of people who're in Vegas buying lockers full of staff. The auction only gives five minutes to look at the locker but nothing can be opened or touched. Then the bet starts at $50.00 dollar whoever bets the higher amount will get the locker full of what's inside. Some of the bets will go as high as $2300.00. Most of the time when I go to buy an item, I'll open the item or look for the display. These guys will just buy the locker full of old staff hoping to m

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