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The Meaning of ESL and EFL 2007-04-19 16:02:03 What do ESL and EFL mean?
ESL stands for English as a Second Language.
EFL stands for English as a Foreign Language.ESL is used when people learn English in an English speaking country. EFL is used when people learn English in a non-English speaking country… Is this important? Not very, Mostly It use for technical term of teacher.
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Hardcore English Training, ways to speak English like native in 3 months 2007-04-19 08:55:32
If you are in a Non- Englishspeak
ing country, of course you can not avoid learning English. You may have tried so hard you read many English books and you pay a lot of money for learning English but deeply inside you feel you don’t go anywhere. You still can not speak English fluently, still cannot communicate very well with foreigners. Why? Because you learn English only few hours a day, you learn with brain which what you have learnt would stay very shortly in your memory and then fade away. Could we make it permanently as driving skill and bicycle riding skill? Don’t give up I’ll tell you the way and be afraid not to pay a lot of money, this way is priceless. I named it “Hardcore English Training
” This program requires you 3 months long, 4-6 hours a day, and strong effort. I guarantee that you will speak like native in 3 months also beat any one who has been abroad. Are you ready to accomplish this? Here we go.
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Hard Core English Training Part.2 - Learn to Speak English with watching movies: Action 2007-04-22 19:30:55
Now we are ready for a real practice. Don’t delay act now. Follow these instructions below.
1. Start with normally watching movie: First time, don’t do anything just watch. Leave subtitle on. You may use dictionary for any words which you don’t know. I suggest use it as few as you can. It’s really annoying to open dictionary too often, don’t you think so? In the other hand, you may write down the words you don’t know and find it out on dictionary when movie is over.
2. Next day, watch the same movie again but this time turn subtitle off. REPEAT EVERY WORDS as much as you can. You need to speak exactly the same as the character speaks (Focusing on accent). You might not be able to catch up every word but don’t be worried you’ll get better soon, believe me. Don’t do step 1-2 in the same day, I recommended. Otherwise, you’ll get bored.
3. Practice at least 2 movies
a day. This will cost you 6-8 hours a day. You may do less or more, up to how long you can spend.
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Hard Core English Training Part.1 - Learn to Speak English with watching movies : Preparation 2007-04-22 19:24:32
As I mentioned it before in “Hardcore EnglishTraining
Overview” If you haven’t read it yet, you probably need to read it first to understand overview. This article is a part of it, this time we go deeply in details.
You may wonder “Do I need to read anything else?” or “Is this way going to work?” No doubt. You might have tried to learn English many ways before for a long time. Are all those ways working? Answer it yourself. Cut off all hesitation then try practicing this way for a few weeks. I promise you will find out an incredible improvement of your English skill.
Here we go the principles.
1. Choose the movies
you want to practice: I suggest dramatic movie which has many conversation that we can use in ordinary life. Try not to pick action movie. If you pick it all you would see is action scene without anywords, other wise you won’t go anywhere with it. If you pick a sci-fi movie you might discourage yourself because it’s too tough, many
Hard Core English Training Part.3 - Learn to Speak English with watching movies: I don’t have much time. What should I do? 2007-04-29 16:27:15
I totally agree that this training course takes a lot of time from your daily life. This part, I suggest other way to learn to speak English
in your shortly free time. Note that it’s not excellent as practicing with movie.
Listen to the English radio station while you drive back home: This is very great way to learn English while you drive back home after work. Don’t forget to speak after radio as movie. In case you don’t have a car, you take a bus home, you might use iPod instead. You can find newest iPod here.
Find Out Newest iPod Here
Download Free Sound Clip: Many free sound clips are available on internet. Download it into your iPod and listen to it when you have a free time. For example you are on the bus or wait for somebody at the cinema. I suggest http://www.voanews.com/english/portal.cfm it has tons of great sound clips to download.
Find yourself a partner: Find someone like you who loves to learn to speak English. Then just set up a schedule for English speaking ho Read more:Training
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How to choose your favorite dictionary 2007-05-07 15:43:41 There are thousands of dictionary in a book store. How to define which one is the best one? From my experience, you have to think about phonetic of dictionary. It’s clear or not. Is each vocabulary explained in several meaning? Before you find one meaning, check out what kind of your vocab, for example noun, adverb, adjective. Then, look straight forward to that kind.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English : It is one of the best dictionary for now.Very useful and helpful. Also the CD-ROM now is much better and you don’t need to put it back each time after installation. Last Edition is on Oct 5, 2006
Electronic Dictionary – it has a device to pronounce the vocabulary so you don’t bother take a look at phonetic anymore. Be careful; make sure that it pronounces correctly.
Learn to Speak English is easy!
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How to potentially use Dictionary for learning to speak English 2007-05-07 15:21:36 I certainly believe anybody who studies English
must have dictionary at least one with him/her. We can say that is very significant to learn new vocabulary but most of you probably still use dictionary in a wrong way. We can divide dictionary into 3 types, English to your major language, your major language – English and universally English-English dictionary.
English – your language, it’s very popular, mostly held by student and being best seller among other 3 kinds of dictionaries. This dictionary is useful for translator. On the other hand, it’s not very good for learning to speak
English. Why? As I mentioned before “Don’t do anything in your language, English only” That’s the main theme. There is the rule. This kind of dictionary would bring you straightly toward your language. So, if you’re not translating anything into your language. It’s best to put it away.
Your language – English, Second best seller and second popular as well. It’s quite hard to Read more:Dictionary
Dictionary and Thesaurus: a Writer’s Most Important Tools 2007-05-11 05:02:52
A writer is sitting at his desk trying to work on an article that is due tomorrow. He knows what he wants to say, but he just can not seem to put it into words. He decides to pull out his trusty thesaurus to try to find the right words to convey his message. The writer finds some words that he thinks will fit perfectly into his article, but he is not sure, because they are outside his vocabulary. The writer consults his dictionary to make sure that the words he has found actually describe the meaning he is trying to convey. After consulting his most important tools, the writer completes his article, and is very happy with his finished product, and so is his editor.
A dictionary is a great tool for any writer’s arsenal that can expand your vocabulary, and help you find the words that you need when you are writing. You definitely want to pull out your dictionary when you think that a word will fit in your writing, but you are not quite sure about the word’s meaning. Also the diction Read more:Dictionary
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What Difference between American-English and English-English? 2007-05-09 14:00:47
When you study english, you need to note that Britain English
and American
English is different in many ways… accents.. words.. Let’s see how to distinguish.
A
AMERICAN
BRITISH
Airplane
Aeroplane
Aluminum
Aluminium
Apartment
Flat
Appetizer
Entree, Starter
*Archeology
Archaeology
B
AMERICAN
BRITISH
Babysitter
Minder
Baked Potato
Jacket Potato
Bathroom
Loo, The Toilet
Band-Aid
Elastoplast
Bank Teller
Cashier
Bedspread
Similar to a Eiderdown and Duvet
Billion
Trillion
Bleachers
Terrace
Braces (for teeth)
Brace
C
AMERICAN
BRITISH
Call (on the phone)
Ring
Cafeteria
Refectory
Can
Tin
Candy
Sweets
*Catalog
Catalogue
Cents
Pence
Chapstick
Lip Balm
*Check
Cheque
Checkers
Draughts
Chips
Crisps
Cigarette
Fag
Closet (bedroom)
Wardrobe
Clumsy
Cackhanded
Collect Call
Reverse Charge Call
*Color
Colour
Cookie
Biscuit
Cotton Candy
Candy Floss
Commercial
Advertisment
Cracker
Savoury biscuit
Crib
Co
Rule Of English Language 2007-05-14 14:10:01 English
is an international language. It has so many grammar rules and each rule with many exceptions. Usually, we write English without paying much attention to these rules and exceptions. But, its good to know as much as grammar as possible especially the exceptions. In this article, I am mentioning some of these unusual facts and rules of English language.
1. A word starting with letter ‘Q’ has ‘u’ as its second letter.
2. If abbreviation ends with same letter as the complete word itself then dot (.) is not placed. For example, we write Dr instead of Dr. for Doctor and Prof. for professor and not prof. But, people unknowingly write Dr. for Doctor.
3. Strange but common. Most of you know that following sentence contains all the alphabets of English language:
“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
4. Use word ‘Do’ to emphasize an action. For example, you can write ‘I do go there’ instead of ‘I go there’.
Why Do You Study English For? 2007-05-12 15:14:20
If you have study English
for a while you sure realize that to succeed in learn English is not that easy. The reason is it needs a lot of effort to earn it. Now, it’s time to ask yourself a question. “Why do you study English for?” Let’s me share my experience with you. Why I could practice English alone for three month long without given up.
2 years ago. My university (Kasetsart University,Thailand) has announced “Food and Agriculture international summit” which was settle in
Tokyo University, Japan. And my university had a right to send only one representative to join this summit. I really wanted to join this summit very bad. First of all, I had to win among 4 competitors from other Kasertsart university campus first. I had practice my English about 3 weeks long and finally I won! Winning this part was just the beginning. To be representative I needed to give them a speech stand in the podium, in front of 19 countries from all around the world. I had to answer them Read more:Study
How to find online friends to learn English 2007-05-17 18:41:03
Chatting is the one of the way to practice English
even it’s not as good as talking , but it’s better than nothing. In case you got bored of normal practice. You can think of any word before you type. That’s con. First of all you need to install Instant messaging program first. Choices are among ..- Use find function in yahoo messenger. Or go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/chat.php
- www.myspace.com
- www.blnk.com
- www.meebo.com
- www.hi5.com
- www.spinchat.com/
- www.ukchatterbox.co.uk/
Don’t rush. You may encounter some of these questions.
- asl plz?
- Do u have a webcam ?
- Can u take ur clothes off ?
- Can I see ur undies? (Underwear)
They mostly want to talk about sex! If you like it, fine. In case you want to practice your English. Here’s my advise.
- http://www.englishclub.com/esl-forums/viewforum.php?f=128&sid=764d65f7da641246a5742e3be13b4bef
They all are looking for friends for practicing English. I assure that you would get a good one there. Enjoy Read more:online
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How Many People In The World Speak English? 2007-05-16 10:31:57
About one-and-a-half billion (1,500,000,000) people spoke English
at the start of the 21st century. That was one quarter (¼) of all people on earth. More than 400 million (400,000,000) speak English as their first language. The rest speak English as a second or third language for their professional and personal lives. But English is not the world’s top first language, as you can see from the following list:
1st Mandarin Chinese 726,000,000
2nd English 427,000,000
3rd Spanish 266,000,000
4th Hindi 182,000,000
5th Arabic 181,000,000
6th Portuguese 165,000,000
7th Bengali 162,000,000
8th Russian 158,000,000
9th Japanese 124,000,000
10th German 121,000,000
Source: EnglishClub.com
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Why Native-English Speaker Is So Stupid? 2007-05-16 09:42:42 Admin: I’ve got this question from englishclub.com. I think it’s very funny, so I brought it here.
Question: English
is not my native language. When I speak to my friends in English, they understand, but native-English-speakers sometimes don’t understand. Are my friends more intelligent?
Answer: This is a problem in all languages, of course, not only English. The better you know a language, the more possibilities you know. If you take one word, and change its pronunciation just a little, it may have another meaning. In fact, to a native-speaker one word may have many different meanings, depending on the exact pronunciation and/or context. So if you don’t pronounce a word correctly, or you use it in the wrong context, a native speaker has to consider perhaps ten or more different meanings that your sentence may have. To you and your friends it’s simple, because you think there is only one meaning. But the native-speaker has to calculate many possible com Read more:Native
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ESL: Podcast Resources for Studying English 2007-05-19 20:06:57
Today I decided to write about some of my favourite podcasts which I’m using for improving my English
level (listening comprehension). All of these resources are specialized ESL (English as a Second Language) podcasts hosted by English professionals and native speakers.
First of all, I want to introduce EslPod.com site. This site and its podcasts are created by the Center for Educational Development, in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Lucy Tse writes scripts and records many of the dialogs and stories. Dr. Jeff McQuillan is the host of the podcasts. Both were university professors of applied linguistics and education for many years, and have taught English as a Second Language at several colleges and universities.
I think, this is one of the best ESL resources in podcasting world. The main idea of ESL Podcast
is that every issue of this podcast lasts 10-20 minutes, and has three parts:
An dialog or story read a bit slower than normal speech.
An explanation of some of the expressio Read more:Resources
Public Speaking in English: Presentations 2007-05-22 11:02:53
People speak in public for many reasons. One of the most common forms of public speaking is the ‘Presentation’. In a presentation, you ‘present’ or introduce something (a product, an idea, financial results, a project etc) to your audience. You give a presentation because you want to ‘communicate’ something. Generally, you want to do one of four things. You want:
to inform
to train
to persuade
to sell
A presentation is one of the best ways of communicating your message. And because English
is so widely used in international business, a knowledge of the vocabulary and techniques used in an English language presentation is very useful.
This article will give you 7 of the most important areas to consider when giving any presentation.
1 Preparation
Prepare! Prepare! Prepare! Good preparation is essential for any presentation. With good preparation and planning you will be fully confident. Your audience will feel your confidence. And so your audi Read more:Public
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Symbolic and Figurative English Expressions 2007-05-29 22:17:55
Literal English
word use and meaning has very structured formats and can be used to function efficiently if one desires to be an English writer or operate in the English speaking world.
Native English speakers use formal and literal word use and meaning formats from zero to 80 percent of the time when they are speaking or writing. Native English speakers use informal or symbolic or figurative formats when speaking or writing from 20 to 100 percent of the time.
If you want to always understand native English speakers then you have to also study the use of informal, symbolic and figurative formats in both written and spoken English.
The English language is composed of every imagined symbolic expression used for written and spoken communications and adds new imagined “expressions” everyday. The number of English words increases and word-use formats evolve everyday.
Some symbolic or figurative formats are written first and are adopted into spoken communications. Some symbolic Read more:Expressions
Example Job Interview Questions and Answsers (English as 2nd Language) Part 3 2007-06-02 14:28:33
Use the Right Word
Below is a list of great verbs to help you express just exactly what you did with impressive vocabulary. These verbs are used to express responsibilities and tasks performed:
acted
accomplished
adapted
administered
advanced
advised
allocated
analyzed
applied
approved
arbitrated
arranged
assisted
attained
blended
brought
built
carried out
catalogued
changed
classified
collaborated
compared
completed
computed
conceived
conducted
constructed
consulted
contracted
controlled
cooperated
coordinated
corrected
counseled
created
dealt
decided
decreased
defined
delegated
derived
designated
detected
developed
devised
directed
discovered
distributed
documented
doubled
edited
encouraged
engineered
enlarged
escalated
established
estimated
evaluated
examined
expanded
experienced
explored
facilitated
finalized
formulated
founded
functioned
governed
grouped
guided
handled
harmonized
harnessed
headed
identified
implemented
improved
increased
indexed
initiated
inspected
installed
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Example Job Interview Questions and Answsers (English as 2nd Language) Part 2 2007-06-02 14:23:30
Experience and Qualifications
Work experience is by far the most important topic of any job interview (at least in the United States and Britain). Therefore, it is important to explain what experience you have in detail. Generally, employers want to know exactly what you did and how well you accomplished your tasks. This is not the time to be modest. Be confident, and talk freely about your accomplishments in past employment.
The tenses you should use are the following:
When talking about current employment be careful to use the present perfect or present perfect continuous. This signals that you are still performing these tasks at your current job, for example:
Smith and Co. have employed me for the last 3 years as a salesperson.
I have been creating customer contacts for 6months.
Etc.
When talking about past employers use the past tenses to signal that you are no longer working for that company, for example:
I was employed by Jackson’s from 1989 to 1992 as a clerk.
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Example Job Interview Questions and Answsers (English as 2nd Language) Part 1 2007-06-02 13:53:05
Congratulations! You have applied for a job and now you are getting ready for that important job interview. Your English
is excellent and you are looking forward to making a good impression on your future (hopefully) boss. Now, you need to make sure that you also have the right type of English for that job interview.
The job interview in English contains specific questions and appropriate answers. It also requires a certain flexibility in your usage of tenses. This feature provides tips on job interview questions and answers in English.
When you walk in the room the very first impression you make on the interviewer can have a great influence on the rest of the interview. It is important that you introduce yourself, shake hands, and are friendly. The first question is often a “breaking the ice” (establish a rapport) type of question. Don’t be surprised if the interviewer asks you something like:
How are you today?
Did you have any trouble finding us?
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Learn English Via Email 2007-06-08 08:12:33 I’ve recieved email newsletter from www.englishtown.com for 2-3 years. The benefit that you will get is a good english lesson and it doesn’t contain only text .it has sound clip, cartoon, motto, daily conversation and many more for you everyday. It also supports many languages. For example..
English
Korean
Thai
Turkish
Vietnamese
Mexican
Russian
Japanese
Italian
Espanol
French
Portugese
and many more that I can’t read (haha)
So, don’t worry. You won’t get hurt. Go visit
http://www.englishtown.com/
and Register email newsletter right away(Email
Newsletter is located at the bottom right of the page). Totally free of charge and no spam email afterwards, and I guarantee 100% satisfied .
PS. I don’t get any commission from that site. Just realize how useful of it.
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Can I Send My Child To a Summer Camp To Learn English? 2007-06-13 06:57:32
There are summer camps that have resources to teach children English
who speak another language at home. This is especially the case in the UK, where there are numerous summer camps and summer schools that cater to non-English speaking Europeans and non-Europeans who send their children to Britain in order to immerse them in the English language and culture. It is, however, very important to ask ahead of time if the summer camp offers English language instruction, or if it has appropriate staff and facilities to teach children English. Some camps do take it for granted that children who decide to attend all have an adequate command of the language, and thus the focus will be more on fun activities than on language instruction.
Camps that do offer English language instruction will always have qualified EFL or ESL teachers. In most cases, these teachers are over 21 years of age and have completed some, or all of their university education. Moreover, they will almost always be required t Read more:Summer
How To Write a Good Letter Of Application? 2007-06-17 20:13:32
Quality as well as enthusiasm!
A good application always consists of a CV and a letter of application. It is important that both these documents are well geared to each other, as this will improve your chances of being invited for an interview.
In a CV you give a brief and concise description of who you are and your life thus far (education, work experience). You mainly use your letter of application to explain to the reader why you think that you of all applicants are suitable for this particular job.
This letter is often quite wrongly regarded as a covering letter for your CV. A good letter of application improves your chances and adds a personal touch to your application. But keep it to the point. A letter of application should never be longer than one A4!
A well-written letter shows that you are serious and have certain qualities. It helps you stand out from the other applicants. In addition to content, the style is important as well. Above all, your letter also has to show enthu Read more:Write
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Learn English With Games 2007-06-25 05:21:58
Nowsadays, we can learn english through many medias. Until now I’ve told you that you can learn English
Through, Movies(recommended), website, web community, group, mail, and this time.. games!
I reccommend website below
www.languagegames.org
It provided many language as English, Spanish, French, Italian and many more.
You can choose among “word search”, “Cross Words”,”Hangman”
Have fun…
Study English is easy! Believe me!
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Sample Letter Template: Start Up 2007-07-05 00:25:51
In case you are in such a hurry to write a letter and no time for letter research. Here the solution. Take a template and change it into your letter by maintain the main form.
There 2 major types of letter here:
1. Bussiness Letter
2. Personal Letter
Notice This:
1.Define what Business letter is. For example, a “cover letter” for a resume or c.v. is NOT a business letter - it is a personal employment-related letter. On the other hand, a “cover letter” used to transmit a report IS a business letter.
2.Don’t make a mistake, most people think CV is a business letter but it’s not. For example: resume cover letters, personal character and job reference letters, complaint letters, letters to landlords, personal thank you letters, resignation letters, job inquiry and application letters, and other letters of a personal nature such as letters of apology, congratulations, invitation, and condolence, among others.
3.It is important to note that a lot of confu Read more:Sample
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How To Write Personel Letter 2007-07-19 00:45:42 Personal letters can be divided into two broad categories, based on the intended recipient: person-to-person letters and person-to-business letters.
It is important to note that a lot of confusion exists as to what are true personal letters and what are not personal letters. For example, a “cover letter” used to transmit a report is NOT a personal letter - it is a business letter. On the other hand, a “cover letter” for a resume or c.v. IS a personal letter.
Letter
s that some people loosely define as personal letters which are NOT personal letters at all include: covering letters, employee letters, introduction letters, marketing letters, publicity letters, project letters, customer relation letters, financial and credit letters, order-related letters, sales and marketing letters, follow-up letters, announcements, fundraising letters, among others.
The links below will take you to typical sample letter templates for the two primary categories of personal letters Read more:Write
How To Write Business Letter 2007-07-19 00:42:11 Business letters can be divided into two broad categories, based on the intended recipient: business-to-business letters and business-to-customer letters.
It is important to note that a lot of confusion exists as to what are true business letters and what are not business letters. For example, a “cover letter” for a resume or c.v. is NOT a business letter - it is a personal employment-related letter. On the other hand, a “cover letter” used to transmit a report IS a business letter.
Letter
s that some people loosely define as business letters which are NOT business letters at all include: resume cover letters, personal character and job reference letters, complaint letters, letters to landlords, personal thank you letters, resignation letters, job inquiry and application letters, and other letters of a personal nature such as letters of apology, congratulations, invitation, and condolence, among others.
Business-to-Business Letters
Business-to-business letters ar Read more:Write
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My Language is more DIFFICULT than yours! Part: 2 2007-09-14 11:36:12 Read Part 1
Sounds clearly, languages sound different. while all humans use chiefly the same sounds, there albehavior appears to be some sounds in other languages that we just don’t have in our native language. Some are curious or difficult to articulate. Some can be fully shrewd. A Spanish ‘o’ is not closely the same [...]
My Language is more DIFFICULT than yours! Part: 1 2007-09-14 11:31:32 What makes one language harder or easier to learn than another? Unfortunately, there is no one simple answer. There are some languages which have a number of characteristics that make them relatively difficult to learn. But it depends much more on what languages you already know, particularly your native language, the one (or ones) you [...]
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