In this modern era in a country like India English is an important language for an educated person to earn his livelihood.

Speaking in English has become must for an educated person to grow his status and to maintain his position in this tough and competitive corporate industry. To be honest only good communication skills in English is enough for a person to survive in this competitive world. A person with his\her subject knowledge is not enough to earn a job in India. In this present scenario in India after few years English may overtake our national language.

English has influenced our regional languages so much that speaking in English has become an honour to our people. Even we can see in our political leader’s speeches or our actors comments they all speak in English rather than in our national language Hindi or any other regional language. Especially in Andhra Pradesh the Influence of English language in more when compared to other states in India. It may due to the excessive IT sector companies have been establishing their branches in Hyderabad. Hyderabad is becoming the main Place for this IT sector.

In My opinion English can’t be learned in a short period of time because it is not our mother tongue, but the person having enthusiasm and interest to learn English can learn quickly. The grammar which we are taught by the teacher in the school should be correct as we would speak or teach the same English which has been taught by our teacher. In some schools correct English is not taught due to which lot of people are suffering. When they go to an Interview they speak in the incorrect English taught to them in the school.

To speak English fluently and correctly, reading newspapers, novels, books and then practicing it with the family members, friends and teachers is must. Other best way to learn English and understand it is to visualize the words into your regional language and speak out.

This post is written by Srikanth.

English is the most important language in world. 85% People Know English.

In Asian countries some people enjoy speaking in English but some people fear to speak in that language. I think it’s very important to learn English now days because if we learn English we can improve our skills and also benefit in our future growth.

English is important in our life because if we know English

°          We can survive in any place.

°          We can get a good job.

°          We can travel every where.

My Native language is Telugu. In my school days I was always afraid of people who speak in English. I felt that English is the only enemy of my entire life. After entering college I was much worried about speaking in English, so I decided to learn English and within few months I learnt the language. After learning English I laughed at my self thinking of what I expected about English previously.

Funny English -Telugu

Cat is on the wall – goda meedha pilli

Cool Man – challa manishi

Good Man – manchimanishi

Rock the party – davthlo rayee pettu

Funny English – Hindi

What’s up man – upper kya  hai admi

Comeback – aaja piche

The best way to learn English:

°          Learn Grammar. If we know grammar we can speak English perfectly.

°          Daily Read newspapers and English books to improve English

°          Talk in English without shy and fear. Try speaking in English whether it’s right or wrong and then you will know how to speak.

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Yet another smart.fm series. This one is from Hiragana Times and is intended for somewhat advanced learners of Japanese. Each of the lists includes a short text in Japanese with the English translation. The vocabulary in each list is taken from the text and the example sentences too. The topics covered all look pretty interesting. Here is the link: http://smart.fm/series/3335

Another great smart.fm series, this one from Cerego: http://smart.fm/series/3325

This series of five intermediate course covers 1,220 common Chinese words and expressions that you need to know in order to understand Chinese newspapers and magazines. Most of the sample sentences focus on the kind of societal commentary you see in today’s press, both in style and content. Mastering these items will give you a solid foundation in written Chinese and the more formal side of spoken Chinese.

This series is aimed at students who have studied Chinese for at least one year. Second-year students of Chinese at the university level should start with the first course in the series, Chinese Media: Lesson 1. Third-year students should probably jump ahead to Lesson 2 or 3.

To learn more basic Chinese characters, have a look at the “Mastering Chinese Characters” series from TaipeiProgram. There is probably some overlap between the two series, but I would expect them to complement each other well.

Another excellent smart.fm resource for learners of the Chinese language this time. This list was not made by Cerego. It was made by a partner organization though, so the quality is excellent. I haven’t used it personally, but it includes example sentences and audio for both the words and the example sentences, just like all the lists created by Corego itself. I do not know much about the Chinese language, but I think the series is standard Mandarin Chinese with the traditional (rather than the simplified) writing system. (Please correct me if I’m wrong.)

This series of courses teaches the 2,700 most important Chinese characters. These characters collectively represent over 98% of the characters used in written form in newspapers and other journalistic essays.

Mastering these 2,700 characters is the key to achieving literacy in Chinese. The first course, Level 1, assumes little or no prior knowledge of Chinese characters, while Level 10 is for very advanced learners.

Our selection of characters represents an attempt to strike a balance between the most common characters and the most useful ones, with a focus on characters necessary for reading journals, essays, and newspaper articles.

Consulting frequency lists, our staff of experienced native-speaker instructors chose characters that, in their judgment, (1) are pertinent to society, culture, science and technology, business and economics, administration, politics, military affairs, the environment, and other current issues of international importance; and (2) are useful in understanding the main ideas of prose conveying factual information and the writer’s opinion.

Here is the link: http://smart.fm/series/3334

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Another great smart.fm series from Cerego – the creators of smart.fm – for learners of the Japanese language:

This series picks up where the Japanese Core 2000 left off, covering the next 4,000 most important words in Japanese. So when you finish both series, you’ll have mastered 6,000 items.

The series contains a total of 12 lists that cover quite challenging intermediate and upper-intermediate items. This series is for the learner of Japanese who has already mastered the basics and can get by in most everyday situations. Once you have completed this series, you’ll have a solid command of spoken Japanese, and you should be able to follow the majority of what you read in newspapers.

Here is the link: http://smart.fm/series/3321

Another great smart.fm series from Cerego for learners of the Japanese language:  http://smart.fm/series/3319

Note:This series is identical to Japanese Core 2000 apart from the fact that it only includes items from that series which contain kanji. All courses in this series are optimized for study in the iKnow! application’s Kanji Only mode.

I have not yet used this smart.fm series myself, but Cerego is a Japanese company and I am sure that their Japanese language series are very solid. I believe that James W. Heisig’s excellent Remembering the Kanji could prove to be an excellent complement. The latter is an authority when it comes to learning the kanji. I will cover it in more detail in a future post.

In a previous post, I mentioned that smart.fm has an excellent series called “Core 2000″ that focuses on the 2000 most important English words. The “Core 2000″ series presented here is the mirror image of that. It presents the most commonly used Japanese words. It includes example sentences and English translations, with audio for both the Japanese words and the Japanese sentences (but not for the English translations since the focus here is on the Japanese). Here is the link: http://smart.fm/series/3318

Please note that the focus of the series is on vocabulary rather than grammar. Therefore, the grammar used throughout the series is fairly basic – intentionally so, to make sure that the users understand the sentences. To learn Japanese grammar as well as vocabulary, it might be a good idea to combine this tool with something else. I will cover resources to learn Japanese grammar in another post.

Finally, if you haven’t done so already, you should learn hiragana and katakana before starting the Core 2000 series. (You can do so here: http://smart.fm/series/3322 )

If you want to learn Japanese, I believe it will be extremely helpful to learn these two writing systems first – before trying to learn words and expressions, I mean. I’m not sure whether it is best to learn them before, at the same time as, or after learning the kanji, but the latter will be covered in another post. For now, here is the link: http://smart.fm/series/3322

For native speakers of English or high-level students of the English language, smart.fm offers another great series. I recommend it wholeheartedly to all of the crossword puzzle lovers and Scrabble players out there. Here it is: http://smart.fm/series/324-vocabulary

In addition to its excellent “Core 2000″ series, smart.fm has several other great lists for students of the English language. The material presented here is for slightly more advanced students and is presented in English only. In other words, the lists contain English words with English definitions rather than English words with their translation into a foreign language.

In the words of the good folks at Cerego: “The two lists in this series cover 500 of the most frequently tested words on the SAT. Master these to ace the verbal section.” For those of you who may not know what the SAT is, here is the Wikipedia explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT If you want to study in the United States, this series will probably improve your chances of getting into a good university.

And here is the link to the SAT lists on smart.fm: http://smart.fm/series/325-english-to-english

This website is a well-structured French course for complete beginners. If you know nothing (or very little) about French, it is a good place to start.
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/index.html

The website is used for a first-year French course at the University of Texas at Austin, but anyone can access the content for free. It includes audio and video files and has a lot of quality content. The website also provides free PDF workbooks for each chapter, so you can print them and use them with the website. Overall, I think it’s a fantastic resource.

I am no big fan of marriage, gay or straight, but this little comment here was really very moving. Even for me.

Let’s just start off by saying that the average size is around 14 – 17 cm (that’s 5 – 6″ for all you imperialists out there). Of course, it’s not all in the length, it’s also about the thickness. Now here, the average is supposed to be around 8.8 – 10 cm (3.5 – 3.9″). A simple geometric formula and calculation will tell us the average diameter should be about 3 cm. So there, try puttin’ your fingers together now and see what that is. Quite reasonable, I assure you, unless you’re into real pig-like fisting and need a lamp-post up your ass. But I’m not even gonna go there.

Now, the thing you gotta know, is how dicks get measured. Well the problem is that you dick has like a gearbox. Some guys will get you really hard, while others not so much. Basically, it is impossible that a man be brought to “full power” just like that. So, they have some other methods. The simplest one is to measure the little dick when it’s sleepin’; that will give a very rough estimation of how much it can grow. Then, there’s another method which involves stretching the dick (yeah, basically pulling at it) with a certain pressure, and measuring that. No, it will not make it bigger in the long term, I’m sorry. And the best one is injecting a prostaglandin into the little dick. That will always make it reach its “full potential”, it’s something like viagra. Only problem is, you know, I for one will not let anything sharp near my precious willy.

I learned, that humans are the only mammals that don’t have a “penis-bone” (sorry, no better word for it), although we do call them “boners”. It’s all blood-vessels and blood. So do watch out for that cholesterol, you don’t wanna have dick-stroke (I don’t know if it’s possible, but a quick theoretical hypothesis tells me it might very well be). Also, the ratio dick-size/body-size is largest for humans when compared to other species. It’s like a calling card. So at least from a scientific point of view it does count. Now I don’t really see how a big dick would help reproduction, cause it’s got nothing to do with sperm, but hey. Ballistics on the other hand say longer guns shoot further, so maybe that’s the reason.

Now I know this might be a sensitive topic for some people, and I know that is something that everyone cares a lot for. Whether they admit it or not, everybody likes them big. It is sensitive topic for a lot of guys (if not all of them), and mostly they complain about it being to small – you never hear anyone complaining they got a big dick, do ya? Then there are those that are really large, sort of bulky, and the poor chaps ended up with a tinsy-winsy-thingy. And you’ll see a lot of those around, so watch it! Nature has a sick sense of humor sometimes, doesn’t she?

Apparently it’s not nice to say that size matters. That’s why everyone keeps blabbin’ about the “normal”, “average” and so on. Now if there’s one thing I learned about cocks, it’s there’s no such thing as “normal”. I’ll buy “average”, but then you got the vein-y ones, the smooth ones, the ones that go right/left/up, cut, uncut, and so on. I do have to say I never saw one that goes down… unless you mention their mother. Then they go down faster than the speed of light. And ain’t no use tryin’ to ressuscitate that, baby.

People often say “it’s not the size of wave but the motion of the ocean counts in my book”. Fiction book, that is. Now I do understand that if you’re not a very sexual person, you ain’t gonna wanna meet the King Kong of dongs… maybe not face to face mouth/ass/pussy/whatever, but still… you should never close doors.

Now I know, cause I ate a foot-long hot-dog once, and enjoyed it. However, I don’t see myself taking that in my mouth (or any other place). I mean, think of the stretch-marks it’s gonna leave… who’s gonna pay plastic surgery to fix those? I do, on occasions, like it a little rougher, but I don’t wanna be split in half, you know.

On the other hand, I don’t want to be searching for it either, you know… I want it to be there when I need it. Yeah, actually the one that’s always there when you need it works on batteries or it’s made out of plastic/rubber/etc. And I will not suck a small dick. That’s just nasty. If I wanted to pick my teeth, I’d get a tooth-picker. I know that’s gonna stay hard as long as I need to. So, you know, it’s definitely got to “fill the gap”, if I may say so.

But you know, the “motion of the ocean” is just something men with small dicks and the people who date/fuck them invented. It don’t matter how well you use it if it’s small. Actually, this one time (and it bring tears to my eyes even now), this guy was so small he actually apologized for it. Can you say akward? And one other time, there was this little pencil dick whose short-term goal was to fuck me. Honey, go fuck a key-hole with that thing!

You know, it’s just like with guns: the shotgun is definitely gonna whack the little pistol. If you give the little pistol to an armsman and the shotgun to an idiot, the idiot is still more likely to win; the armsman is just going to make the show a little bit more interesting. On the other hand… a nice lookin’ shotgun and an experienced user… is you and a thing on batteries.

I’ve heard (and read) that gays’ cocks are bigger that straights’. I’m just gonna take this as an axiom cause, contrary to popular trends, straight guys really turn me off. Now I would say gays have bigger cocks cause they use them more. But not in this country… so five minutes of shame for two thirds of this country. Maybe it’s an adaptative mechanism; nature knows boys like big toys (in their pants, in their… you know, wherever).

When it comes to size, there are two types of people: size-queens and liars. I mean, let’s just look at gay porn, how they advertise size “Big Black Uncut, Vol. 3″, and so on. It’s obvious everyone likes ‘em. Maybe not everyone is gonna want to take one inside them, even less so on a regular basis, but we all want one at least once. I know I do! Okay, more than one time, maybe even more at the same time (around me, not inside me for cryin’ out loud! I said I wanna feel it, not get split in half, remember?).

Secretly, most people wish the (loved) cocks were bigger. Hey, I wouldn’t mind have a 25cm-something snake in my pants. Now I don’t care if nobody’s gonna wanna “take care” of it, but it’d be there! It’s like having a huge diamond that you keep in a big safe and show off at dinner parties.

But hey, in the end the search for the perfect dick is a bit like the story of Goldielocks. Excuse me, I meant Goldiecocks. This one’s too small, this one’s too curved, this one’s juuust right. And there ain’t such thing as too big. No matter how big it is, you can still do something with it. Truth is, there is no one-size-fits-all. You have to remember that all people should be/are beautiful regardless of cock size. But that’s mostly because you can’t see their cocks. Here’s a quick tip that might help you if you don’t like what you see when he drops trou: strap a couple more condoms on it. Not only it will make it look a little bigger, you’ll also be safer. It’s two birds with one shot!

In the end you have to keep in mind that sex is just a mind game. If you play your cards right, you might fool ‘em anyways. I mean, even I, on occasions, have bragged with more than I actually had – it’s a bit like selling stock on a margin. But they didn’t say anything about it. Or maybe they got me so hard that I actually “stretched my limits”.

And remember, at the end of the day you want a soul-mate, not a cock-mate. Well, most of the times. But hey, who says you can’t have your cake and eat it, too.

PS: I do apologize for the images. However, they serve to illustrate the purpose of the article.

… and she was eatin’.

Now you guys might know I’m not into rap, or hip-hop, or any of those things. But in light of some recent discoveries, I think I might have to reconsider. Rap is definitely hot! Remember when I told you about another gay anthem? Yeah, well that was funny too.

So boys and girls, meet the gay rapper. Now if you thought rap was not gay music, you ought to think again. Apparently the gays have a talent to turn even sort-of repulsive stuff into hot stuff.

I’ll tell ya, when I saw this I so did get a woody. And y’all know I ain’t into thugs.

Now I wonder… is he a top or a bottom?

If you want to find out more check the website, www.cazwell.com. There’s music, videos and, of course, a lot of pictures. Now I don’t know if it’s the blue eyes, the butch-boy look, or whatever, but I am so obsessing right now.

And also, check out the videos on YouTube:

I have no idea about any rap closing lines, but just think of one and insert here.

Enjoy!

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Over the weekend, and extending into the week thus far, a debate has been steadily growing in the blogosphere, both here and in the US, about a controversial set of guidelines for teaching English published last year by the English Teacher’s Association of Queensland (ETAQ).

Before I go on, I might say that the breadth of this debate is such that I barely know where to begin, so logically, I might try beginning at the start.

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Recently I took up dancing. I actually went and joined a latin dance class with a very good friend of mine. We’re about three weeks into it. It’s actually a lot of fun (d’uh!). I just have to blab about this a bit…

So… the first time we went was like for a ‘demonstration’ class. The instructor said we should join, but we weren’t really dressed right. And besides… for me it was way more fun to check out his ass. Thing is, one of the reasons I went is cause I expected there’d be a lot more fags’n'hags around. Too bad there weren’t. In this case: poor straight boys. I feel for them, cause obviously their girlfriends made them go. I could not imagine a straight guy wanting to learn to dance by his own mind; not in our days anyway. What some people will do just to get some. Ha!

So we were just hanging around, and eventually the instructor show up. And I was like… "huh? help me pick up my jaw from the floor". Obviously had his amazing ass tucked up in one of those pairs of pants that just says "booty". And booty he was. Too bad I was too stunned to do anything. But anyways…

Moving along… the next lessons were with another instructor. He’s cute too, actually. I’m over the ass-staring phase now, it’s time to get things in motion. I’m not really sure if he’s gay, but on the other hand I can not believe a straight man can move like that. And hey, if he moves like that out of bed… imagine what he’s gonna be like in bed! I’m still checking the territory around here, but hey, he’s definitely my type; or anyone’s type: tall, booty, "flexibile"… excuse me while I get a towel to dry my drool.

Actually, thank God there’s something to watch around there. Oh, yeah, and there’s the dancing part too. Unfortunately the other guys look like they were hit with the ugly-stick so, obviously, they must be straight.

Now the dancing is actually very fun. I think I’m finally getting the hang of it. The first few times I thought I had two left feet, cause I simply could not do it. Thank God I didn’t trip or fall or anything. Nor did I injure anyone. Yet. The funny part was when we had to dance in pairs. Actually it still is. I gotta learn how to "ride" women. Can’t say I had much experience with that! But hey, it’s comin’ to me. I only knew one way, and it was the ol’ "iron fist" (no pun intended).

Well, that’s about it… just a couple of quick words. I’ll keep ya posted if something "interesting" happens. And maybe I’ll even show my "skill" one of these days…

Hello, everyone (yeah, right, like there is someone reading this…)! I had other blogs in the past and I never really know what to write in a first post. So, I am going to do what everybody does: introduce myself, talk about why I created this blog, and things like that.

Well, my name is Rafael Ferreira and I am a first-year economics graduate student in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I love economics, but I also love learning new languages. Portuguese is my native language but, as you can see, I can also communicate in english fairly well. I have also studied french for a few years, some time ago, but since I do not practice it very much, I’ve started to forget some of the things I’ve learned.

That’s the reason why I created this blog, and I hope to have the time to keep it updated. I wanted to force myself to practice my skills in foreign languages. So this will be, at first, a bilingual blog. I will try to post most of the things in english and portuguese. Gradually, I hope to make this a trilingual blog, as I recover some of the writing fluency I once had in french.

If I would ever be so lucky to have readers some day, I hope they can help me by correcting the frequent mistakes that I am sure I will make. That’s why I left the comments section active: because I know the mistakes of this ignorant foreigner will be numerous.

I hope you guys enjoy!

Olá, pessoal (até parece que tem alguém lendo esse texto…)! Eu já tive outros blogs antes, mas eu nunca sei o que escrever em um primeiro post. Então vou fazer o que todo mundo faz: falar sobre mim, sobre os motivos por que eu criei este blog, etc.

Bom, meu nome é Rafael Ferreira, e estou no primeiro ano do mestrado em economia, no Rio de Janeiro. Eu adoro economia, mas também gosto muito de aprender novas línguas. Além de português, eu também consigo me comunicar razoavelmente bem em inglês e estudei francês por alguns anos, há algum tempo. No entanto, como não pratico muito, comecei a esquecer boa parte do francês que tinha aprendido.

É por isso que eu criei este blog, e espero ter tempo para mantê-lo atualizado. Eu queria me obrigar a aprimorar meus conhecimentos em línguas estrangeiras. Por isso, a princípio, este será um blog bilíngue. Vou tentar postar tudo em inglês e português. Gradualmente, à medida que for readquirindo parte da fluência escrita em francês que já tive um dia, espero ir tornando o blog trilíngue.

Se eu tiver sorte de um dia conseguir alguns leitores, espero que possam ajudar-me corrigindo os erros freqüentes que eu sei que cometerei. Por isso eu deixarei a seção de comentários ativada: porque sei que os erros que este estrangeiro ignorante cometerá serão numerosos.

Espero que gostem!

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