Through my life experience,I have touched that the passage of day and night or time is capable of healing the horrible impact of so many terrible events encountering us like losing a dear or fortune or suffering diseases...ect_ but never failure.Collecting my strength, faking satisfaction and thinking that it would be forgotten ,I went on to resume my life .But from time to time the old ghost comes from the deep past to disturb my present. I avoid seeing my victorious rivals as I see it mocking me in their smiling eyes.Simply, failure always aches and pricks .
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What are the most important items in your purse that you can not go without ?
(Give me only three things; wallet,keys &cell phone are out of discussion )
OUR profiles in whatsoever social site depend on our chosen nick name & our profile picture or avatar .Correct?This creates our identity inside the site.Yeah I agree ,you can change your avatar from one picture to another ,maybe changing your own personal photo to another one of you or the picture you are displaying with a different one.This still makes sense.
But what really makes me thoroughly surprised ,totally astonished & may drive me mad is changing them both. NOW PLEASE I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS :
1){FOR THOSE WHO DO THIS}
Do you still feel that you are the old you?
2){FOR THE FRIENDS OF THIS MEMBER }
Do not you feel that you lost a friend & gained a new one?
Guessing is an excellent way for learning anything .The moment we guess , we start using our minds enhancing our suspense & this in return makes the correct answer sticks.
A funny way to acquire new words is through playing guessing .Let's play it together ! Every time we will guess a word through definitions & a clue or some .
(N.B there is not a prize for the winner.)
Today's word
A noun refers to a relationship(marriage) between two different people ,it is not successful as a result of differences maybe of classes or educational level or something the like.
A clue : it starts with a prefix of negation .
Briefly:
Looking at my Friends & seeing how many they became ,a disturbing question quickly flashed my head:
Is not friendship here (at MYEC) lacking the main item of the sincere & true one?
short explanation:
I think the essence of true friendship is to be purposeless at least at the beginning.We as true friends may one day know each other's skills & ask one another for help, but never the other way round.(I do not want to state the naked name of this relation nor using euphemism.)
evidence :
That is why you find the friends of those writing in their profile "native",or "fluent" or "advanced" countless. Paying in attention that they have never ever sent an add request .(I hate the hideous smell of snobbery coming from their pages & their previously begged comments.I never send them requests even if they will feed me English with a golden spoon.I do not want to mention names ,so as not to be baned.But I think they are well_known.)
Finally:
Is this question a satanic whisper or do you think it is correct?
Please everyone help me settle this issue!
At my faculty, one of my our professors asked us the above question.Regardless of the avalanche of answers we gave,I only still remember his.He said:
"When you speak it correctly & unconsciously without thinking like when you are under pressure or anesthetized or dreaming.this & only this means you do."
My question is for you now do you master English in this sense?
I have no doubt that if anyone of you delves in his/her memory will find a scene where an elder person narrating a story, a proverb or a song from their country folklore.Folklore is a kind of literature that passes from generation to the other through oral narration .It carries the traditions & norms of its nation .I have a comic short story from my Egyptian folklore that my paternal grandma used to tell us, listen...
Raising his hand above his forehead to avoid the burning sun of the desert & moving his eyes from a wide empty corner of the desert to another looking for a shelter , he realized that he has come to an end.He walked & walked until his legs were unable to carry his tired body when all of a suden , he glanced a shade ."Is this a mirage?"he murmured amazingly.But to cut the suspension short it was not,it was all real.
He finaly reached to the tent & asked its owner to let him rest a little & to give him any thing to squelch his thirst .The old woman who happened to be the owner of this humble tent,warmly welcomed the stranger.Bending on her cane ,she hastened to serve him a huge pot full of fresh milk that the stranger drank in a jiffy while she was jabbering moving from a memory to the other without any link.When he wanted to leave after he had gained his strength he thanked the old woman & said:
_May Allah grant your cow a long life!
_I hope I have a one!
_May Allah grant your camel a long life!
_I hope I have a one!
_May Allah grant your sheep a long life!
_I hope I have a one!
_It must be a goat may Allah grant her a long life!
_I hope I have a one .I am too poor to have any kind of stock.
_Then from where on earth you got the milk I drank?
_Oooh you are really lucky my dog has just given birth & I milked her for you.
_I drrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaank a dooooooog's mmm ilk?
About to vomit ,he angerily kicked the pot away breaking it into pieces.
_Ooooops!!!Have you a heart to break the pot in which I answer the call of nature?!!!
This is the end of our story & maybe the end of this guy also.
For sure, most of us know that any language deals with four skills ,namely listening ,speaking,reading and writing .Two skills dealing with the input : listening and reading while the other two remaining skills dealing with the output.Let me clarify! let's take the baby ,s/he is born with no specific phonological or linguistic system .That is to say ,the baby is not born speaking a certain language but s/he acquires it from the surrounding.And if you take ,for instance, a baby born in England and brought s/he up in France what language does the baby speak? French is the answer as it becomes the baby's native language.For more explanation, we are all born with an empty phonological box as children we start listening to our native language gradually filling this empty box that is why a child starts by uttering separate words moving to simple sentences jumping to incorrect complex sentences reaching to a whole correct complex ones . We not only acquire languages but also the dialects as well.To summarize, listening and hearing lead to speaking.You may notice that I introduced another term:hearing.Do not worry ,it is not separated from listening with a slight difference.Hearing is receiving sounds with the ear but listening is doing the same but with attention.Clear?So let's follow this natural way in our learning English .let's hear and listen a lot to English native speakers through media , tapes, videos,songs and whatsoever .If you have a native speaker friend with whom you can practice your spoken English ,then lucky you!This cuts the long distance short .( I stress the word native as I do not want you to have a distorted ,exotic,awkward spoken English.)The point is the more you listen,the better you speak. Reading not only the second input skill but also the main source of knowledge .It is your mean to build up vocabulary in different fields and understand the applying of grammar rules.Pick up a series of learning books(They are written in a professional way to take you bit by bit from one level to the upper next one and most of them have a glossary at the end containing the new words you have to learn )For example, there are The Ladybird series .stick to one of these series and study them by heart and try to analyze the sentence structure and grasp it .I have a lot to say about reading with its two main ways skimming and scanning ,however I think this is enough for now.Writing is the out come of reading .You should learn academic writing .One should confess although writing is a talent ,it can be mastered by continuous practice. Practical tips : 1_ Listen to English native speakers a lot through an available media 2_Try to concentrate an pick up new words 3_Read books, try to understand what you are reading and make up your own personal dictionary 4_Try to speak English with a friend and practice what you learn
Far in the village,lived a very rich old woman.She lived all alone , there was nobody but her maid. This old woman was as miser as miser could be for she never had given a charity.She almost always believed that giving charity is the shortest way to poverty. She shouted to her maid from the window waving by her cane to the children playing in her house garden:"kick those little devils from my garden and make sure they do not take any of the fallen fruits." The maid said :"my lady,they are mere young children playing without taking anything ..........," shut up and do what I ask you to do" interrupted the old lady. The maid entered and said:"my lady, there is a poor woman at the door begging your charity.Do you like to give her anything ?" Filled with fury the old woman said:"when will those beggars stop knocking at my doors?Do they get bored?Let her go away." One day the maid came into the old woman's room while she was counting a sum of money and said in a desperate voice:"there is a strange passerby needs any thing to eat.What do you like to give to him?""Go and kick him out .And do not you think you can give him anything from behind my back for I count everything "said the old woman. In the next day the old woman demanded her maid after she had cleaned the house and the garden to cook a small chicken for their lunch ."my lady, my lady......."cried the maid shedding tears."What's up?"asked the old woman anxiously ._a crow sneaked from the kitchen window and took the chicken before I put it in the oven and fly away _What!!!You must be punished, you are wasting my money lousy maid .What a cursed crow!I'll let you starving for the rest of the day.You are killing me......ah .......my heart my heart....... The maid took the old woman's hand and laid her on her bed while she was murmuring curses and rebuke and closed the door of the room leaving her to rest. "Wake up,wake up..."said two freaks in the same voice punching the old woman in her shoulders. "Who are you ?and where am I?trembling with fear asked the old woman. "Shut up your mug!You are here to be asked not to ask"they said. "Please leave me,I am starving.I didn't eat anything since morning" "No we wont leave you.Remember you are not alone starving what about your poor maid?You left her without food without any mistake of her,didn't you?" "please give me something to eat,I am too hungry to walk,have mercy on me." "Isn't it strange to ask for charity while you ever never wanted to be asked?" For the first time in her long life the old woman felt how cruel she was and while she was pondering her horrible miser image a big crow appeared in the horizon carrying a wrap in his mouth.Landing beside the old woman and the two freaks, the crow had put the wrap and said:"I owe this woman something ,and it is time for settling debts". "take it",said the two freaks. Quickly the old woman opened the wrap to disappointedly find nothing but her raw small chicken .What happened todays morning flashed in her mind and felt shy. "common eat quickly ,there is no time to waste ,we have a lot to do with you today" said the two freaks. "I can't eat it,it is raw!" "Excuse me my lady this is what I have exactly taken from you no more ,no less and I have paid my debt"said the crow waving farewell while flying away disappearing in the wide horizon. "Eat ,you have not anything with anybody .This is all what you owe today." "I can't eat it ,I am old I have no teeth, there is no way to eat this." One of them came towards her and opened her mouth while the other pushed the chicken in. "Oh, I 'm sh_o_k_i_n_g h_e_l_pppppppp" waking up up from a short snap,the old woman thanked God realizing that it is not a mere wicked nightmare but also a siren for quick change.she apologized to her maid and asked her that from this moment on to give every needy whatever s\he wanted, and let the children play in her house garden and eat from whatever fruit tree they liked. Among the maid surprise ,the old woman told her that she had learned a lesson that she would not forget for the short remaining days of her life:what we take is nothing but what we give.
