Just stumbled across a site Practical Conversations for English learners. Its a blog with basic English conversations both in text and audio format. They have pretty good collection of conversations. As written in a previous post the ebook English Survival kit has been written in the same idea with hundreds of conversations.
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….the more I learn about English, the more I see what I lack. The process of learning English has also become a process of learning about life. Now I know that learning and progressing is what life is all about. There is no limit in learning of knowledge.
This is from a Chinese language website where some one wrote about his/her experience in learning language.
Read the article here….(name is written in Chinese I guess)
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# Things are not as they ___.
a. seam
b. seem
# A type of corn is called ___.
a. maize
b. maze
# On the ___, he is a nice person.
a. whole
b. hole
These are few of the vocabulary Quizzes available on a4esl site.
There are quizzes available for ESL students in different levels Easy,Medium and Difficult. In addition to vocabulary quizzes there are also quizzes on grammar and video podcasts available on the site. Learn English in a fun way.
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If you ever wondered what is meant by the phrase ‘American Dream’. Here is a definition from the library of congress website.
In the book The Epic of America
“that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.”
Basically ‘American Dream’ implies material prosperity. But the hard truth is that material prosperity doesn’t always lead to happy life. This is the most efficient platform or system in the face of the planet to become financially successful for an ordinary person. End of that success journey (if there is one) doesn’t guarantee happiness.
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City of Hamilton, Ontario,Canada is going to offer Wi-Fi internet connection free of charge in the core down town area. The wireless service will be available soon in the area between Victoria and Queen streets and Barton and Main streets. Its been planned to offer the service for one year.
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