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This is a true story from the japanese embassy in US .

A few days ago Prime Minister Mori was given some Basic conversation traning

  before he visits Washington and meets president Barack Obama.................

The instructor told Mori Minister when you shake hand with president Obama

please say ' how are you ' then Mr. Obama should say i am fine and you ?

now you should me too afterwards we translators will do the work for you it 

looks quite simple but the truth is

 when Mori met Obama, he mistakenl

I think i've told this story sometime here in the chat; or I've written about it in a comment before. I can't really remember. But now I feel like sharing it here in this blog.

Before coming here, I was member of another English learning site (Italki, but don't even bother looking for it, it sucks now) It was just like MyEC but more active and it was cool till a biggest company bought it and changed everything to make it all commercial: They removed the chat room and the site turned into a very i

Hello there.

I'm on cloud nine at the moment. Let me share you the reason of my excitement. I am a teacher at private language school. I teach English as a foreign language. This morning we (teachers) had to carry out the Pearson Test of English (Edexcel), (LCCI ), (EDI) for exam candidates. Before the exam, by chance, we got an inspection from the British Council officials without any ratting and some of us were questioned about examination regulations related to invigilator declaration and atte

Hi everyone,

I request the highest of fives. :))

We all know the upcoming event, the 2018 World Cup, is being held in Russia from June 14 to July 15. Aren't you so excited for that? I, myself, am neither an observer of any football team in the world nor a football game fan. Anyway, the World Cup event seems to always make almost everybody around the globe be in the grip of football fever. What about you?

The World Cup event should also be an opportunity for us to lift our spirits in learning Englis

I am crawling, grovelling and sometimes, I run, nevertheless, I have been moving very slowly to get to the number one hundred blog. Shame on you Dara! People have already done more than four hundred blogs and you are still creeping to get to your one hundred blogs. If you divide those blogs into the number of years on My EC, the outcome or the consequences would be very disappointing.          

Now, I have reached it but honestly, I do not know what to tell the reader? Now, shall I tell him about

This might not be the best performance of the song. I link to it, though, as the lyrics is displayed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6xSAl1spHc

Joe Cocker ......with a little help from my friends.....

........an idea that come across me yesterday looking for a suitable translation of a proverb from my motherlanguage into the english.

Me as a single translator managed a translation that rhymed indeed but sounded odd....... and probably looked a bit incomprehensible. Thus I asked for help and typed

We like to think of writing as the section with no hiding spots. In this section, you not only have to put down your thoughts in a coherent fashion but also make sure you are grammatically correct while being error free.

You will be tested on your thought flow, grammar, sentence construction and essay structure. You get 60 minutes to put down approximately 400 to 500 words. We share some tips with you to help you understand this section and to help you relax with the idea of writing.

1. Get the stru

10 tips to improve your IELTS Reading score Before we begin to improve, we must know where we stand. Let us begin by taking a mock test after you have read this article. In the reading section, you will be tested on your reading comprehension which means grasping power or understanding of the written word.

There will be 3 sections with different articles with each article designed to test your knowledge on various reading skills. Each passage can be anywhere between 500 to 700 words. Whether it i

Racism takes many forms and can happen in many places. It includes prejudice, discrimination or hatred directed at someone because of their cast, color, culture (ethnicity) or national origin.

People often associate racism with acts of abuse or harassment. However, it doesn’t need to involve violent or intimidating behavior. Take racial name-calling and jokes. Or consider situations when people may face hatred of certain groups because of where they are from what are their cultural traditions eve

Hello there, EC people! It's been a long time since my last blog here and it really made me sad to know I'm less active than before... really. Well, actually this blog is not as fresh as overnight written as have had written this to another blog I have outside EC. It's just I have the feeling to share this here. But please, pleaseeeee.... don't ever tell me that I'm propagating something or spreading my beliefs, YOU ARE FREE TO BELIEVE WHATEVER YOU WANT if you agree with this blog or not, is not

Yesterday it was a World Book Day. Books make our life more interesting, learn us and bring our souls to new places, worlds and situations.

A long time ago I found that sci-fi books were the best way to start reading in English. Sci-fi authors usually use quite understandable language, good sci-fi books are full of new ideas and you read them not "for learning", but for pleasure. So, here are my TOP-3 books you can read in English:

1. "READY PLAYER ONE" by Ernest Cline. Obviously, you have already

Why do we run away from our fate?

We spend our days in suffer.

Why do you tell us that we are finished?

We are still very young.

During the days, we have become a story

that does not recognize an end

love and affection began and they became a goal

you used to offer me happiness,

when I drown in my tears,

you will also cry from deep inside

we were powerful in our past,

a power that challenges difficulties.

We cut the dark night.

We walk on the trail.

We were a symbol of kindness.

Hi all!!  Sitting here this morning reading over the blogs and contemplating the events that have taken place in EC and in our own lives over the past weeks, a few thoughts came to me.  One thought was of Mr. Josef.  I was basically unaware of him, other than the creator of this site, before I became a moderator.  To me, he is, was and has been the power behind this place called English Club.  He is a very learned man.  I have found him fair, tolerant, decisive, caring, optimistic, sympathetic,

People are being judged by their actions and the way they behave but sometimes the situation makes you behave unpredictable and differently. So is it right to make their own perception before knowing the fact? What I have learnt from life that don't be come to conclusion so early , give proper time to understand the person and then react accordingly. Might be this way you can see the world in different way and can understand people better.

There are many quotes.

Today, I read one of them that I want to share with you all:

Source: Pinterest

Jokes are usually funny brief stories that intended to make people laugh. Sometimes, they depend on the person who tells the joke himself. The joke can be very amusing, but the joker or the person who is telling them is not funny. His jokes fall flat and no one will laugh. Therefore, people will not find it very funny. on the contrary, the joke can be silly, but the person who narrates them is a funny or an amusing man.

Did I tell you the joke about that man who left his car keys in the ignition?

The word "Proverb" is well-known and understandable to everybody. In French language the equivalent of proverb is proverbe /pʀɔvɛʀb/ and in Arabic مثل /maθal/. Many scholars tried to define the word proverb. Woldgan Meider is one of them. He states that a proverb is a short generally known sentence of the folk which contains wisdom, truth, moral and traditional views in a metaphorical and memorisable form and which is handed from generation to generation. It is clear that proverbs are used in ou

Opening a can of worms in order just to let them slime and sneak on others one has to be aware that these worms might get back on you and treats you the way you expected for the others.

What would be your way to take them worms back in the can? Collect them one by one and put them back into the can or hit them to death with just one enormously huge flap and whistle pretending innocence?

Damn I might get an a..kick, though I can´t help. Needed to get rid of this thought.

Thanks for attention

Why I always feel alone though you are with me in my memory, in my feelings, in my senses? Or is only the ache of my heart, that makes me feel that I am not with you.  We did accompany on the way of highway of life, though for a short duration, but I still feel the shower of your love upon me.  Now you are gone, and I am perplexed how I will handle this aching separation.  I can feel you running like blood in my veins, blood the prove of life, so as you in me.  I am faded like flower without lif

Earth Day is celebrated each year on April 22 and was established to increase awareness of the need to protect the Earth’s natural resources.

Earth Day is a global holiday that celebrates our planet’s environment. Every year on April 22, people host different events to remember the Earth. But Earth Day is not just about appreciating the environment—it’s about preserving it as well. 

Environmental activists use Earth Day to increase awareness about issues like global warming and oil spills. They