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 What is a teacher?
I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”
—  Paulo Coelho


Dear Visitors;  I decided to bring forward my experiences, inspirations and breaking news about my studies and my groups "Karaoke and Daily Vocabulary" at this part of my welcoming page. As some of my friends know well I've been training about pronunciation since last year but it took some time to discover HOW and from WHERE to start studying. Thanks to AUDIO GROUP and Be Newscaster with TARA, it became a superb beginning after that I kept going on singing with Karaoke Group meanwhile I started searching the rules of pronunciation, phonetics, minimal pairs etc..Then EC began blossom with good exercises of pronunciation.Teacher TARA raised its importance. I love studying with a team synergy, like singing, reading news, training american accent...I was wondering how narrow the field of training to focus well on the main idea, because I have got lost, today I feel myself more clear.

Thank you for coming here and showing interest to my page,If you want to write any message or want me to share my own learning experiences, please don't hesitate to write me! It would be a great honor for me.Everybody is  more than welcome !
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Here are some useful ways for new members to see How English Club worksI collected the most suitable and compact links to template us.I still read them time to time ! and for more, please visit Tara's page.

We are singing song in Karaoke Groupbecause we believe strongly that singing is a good contributor to our speaking by having fun.

Everybody's invited

Check it out for weekly challenge,  Let's Sing Together

or you can separate a discussion for your own singing, like Abril, Greg, Miley "No fee, No obligation", Feel free please ! You can find great songs in periodically,

How true point, isn't it! Start with Tara'S Writing Challenge

L e t ' s   W o r k   P r o n u n c i a t i o n

We are doing great practice in Audiboo group," Be a Newscaster"" which is  a weeklly challenge forced by Tara. after joining this group, my pronunciation skill and my self-confidence improved significantly.

Briefly, I highly recommend recording your voice !

Let's see what we are doing in the audio group,

Gabriel Sowrian, who is a great voluntary linguist and member of the group, help us to improve pronunciation skill in the Virtual Classroom or at every turn.

Let's Start the Conversation by David

 or with Rachel who is a dedicated teacher, I follow her admiringly also applause her materials especially her video with its expand transcription which you can click on the sentences to hear her speech as many as you like what does it mean that is you can make perfect practice by repeating with her. So it has full of content video is not just a extract for listening, it is also providing an imitation with itself transcription, shortly, you can find more beyond video.. I do both listening and after that speaking with Rachel together as if a narrator..I am sending my appreciate for this free of charge labor.

for more "Pronunciation Links" please check this

and more natural&fluent speaking see this video

Hello Everybody,
After years of hard working for some private companies in İstanbul, I've been living in Ayvalık for two years. My english studying is going on for two years intensely. I pay attention to study all skills equally as using diversity sources. In my opinion,  listening, reading, writing, speaking practice must be mixed.From my perspective, both the grammar rules and the daily practice must be held together. Recently, my  daily routin is to improve pronunciation and also getting new words as writing & reading something in EC or from the net. When I am writing, I definitely use "Merriam-Webster Learning English Dictionary" which helps for making your own dictionary.

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My Group "Daily Vocabulary Learning"

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Altough, it's called "Daily" but in fact that we're making more compact studies in words' own texts. I realized that during in my learning process, it's not important how number of words you learned, it's essential matter whether the words you've already learnt are used efficiently or not, as far as I'm concerned.Here is a good debate about difficulties in taking mental note. If You are already being frustrated when you see the long list, my unique suggestion is that you should make your athmosphere full of english, if you could. I mean, there should be a reason for using your english such as communication with your friends,first of all, have a good dictionary for examp; Oxford for learners, try to understand  what's happening in the world of english, and then writing is just coming before speaking that is important skill for preparing your brain to speak.These were my experiences, I believe you'll find the best way for yourself.
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At 9:26 on May 22, 2013, Luiz Paulo said…

"Hello Selma! I'm fine, thanks, and you? Good day for you.Thank you for add me to your list of friends. Have a nice week. "

At 15:35 on May 19, 2013, Lynne said…

Hi Selma,

Thanks for stopping by on my page. You always make me smile everytime I saw greetings from you. That picture you posted on my page is really nice...

Good day! 

At 12:14 on May 14, 2013, selma said…

 

Today, I gained my first but big experience in Skype by talking with dear Gabriel, I know that conversation was boring, but of course he pushed me & never give me up.  initially, I was paralyzed, couldn't say any word, ı was blank, words didn't come easy, but in the progress I became better, thanks a lot Gabriel, you noticed me I had wings :))) and in the new future, I may use them in confidently:)) You made my day, God bless you,

At 19:24 on May 10, 2013, Barbare said…

Useful page...

At 15:25 on May 2, 2013, Ceren said…

Hello Mrs. Selma. Thanks for the good wishes. I hope, i learn english for my job :) Nice to meet you. See you again.

At 6:14am on April 23, 2013, Marzouq gave selma a gift
At 5:06 on April 23, 2013, Gabriel Sowrian said…

Dearest Selma,

How's life treating you these days? It's been quite a while since I last wrote to you. I hope God's endless blessings are always showered on you and your beloved family.

By the way, thank you for the heart-warming words you left for me at 'Spambusters'. I just posted my response THERE. Please have a peek! Bye for now, dear!

Warm regards,

   ~* GS *~

 

At 12:38 on April 9, 2013, Lynne said…

I am thankful that you could join the group, Selma.

It feels nice to see you around.

Have a nice day!

always.

At 2:39 on April 9, 2013, Lynne said…

I am inviting you to join Recreation Group. Please click on the link below;

Recreation Group

Selma, you are welcome to share or express in Recreation Group your idea or opinion on how we can help make learning the English language fun for all.. feel free to add some activities you can link to help improve the listening, reading, speaking and writing skills of the English language learner.

Welcome!

At 11:29 on April 5, 2013, sony said…

Selma good to hear :)

At 8:26am on April 04, 2013, sony gave selma a gift
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I love turkey. I want to visit. Now a days I am watching turkish drama Fatmagul what was my fault. I love this drama :)
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I know you have it already............ but just to let you know that you are very much appreciated:

At 11:07 on March 25, 2013, Guest said…

Hello Selma

Thank you very much and i very happy at  EC

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Hi Selma! Thanks for the VOA songs link! I posted a blog-list of places where you can HEAR them and READ the lyrics.
At 20:46 on March 12, 2013, Juli said…

Thank you so much, and welcome :) See you again in a new Discussion 

At 13:44 on March 8, 2013, Gabriel Sowrian said…

 

Dearest Selma...

Lots of Love,

~* GS *~

P.S. I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank you for your heart-warming words and beautiful graphics that you left on my wall on a couple of occasions!

Though I failed to acknowledge them immediately, I've never forgotten to appreciate your Loving and Kind Gestures towards me at any time! God bless you, Dear!

 

At 4:57 on March 1, 2013, Ganesh Mahajan said…

Thanks selma.

At 10:00 on February 27, 2013, itaf said…

hello dear selma,

how are you , i am itaf from tunisia and i have the honor to know you nice to meet you my friend and thank you for the comment 

 
 
 

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