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Hi Omar and everyone,
I have two penpals how have helped me to improve my English.
They are from The United Kingdom and from Ireland.
They always correct my letters and teach me the right way to write,
I know my English is still poor but I am improve it,
This is an excellent way to learn the Shakespeare´s language, isn´t it ?

That's a good question, Omar: I think physics is in fact like a language!
And Tenocht, Shakespeare's English is old and quite different to ours -- but it's definitely a wonderfully creative form of the English language.

DavoÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½

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I loved this article. I believe that internet is a powerfull tool to learn any kind of thing.
People spend a lot of time in social network and forget about the best things internet is provinding us: the opportunity to learn and improve our skills.
Thanks for your interest to do what you´re doing and to give us the opportunity to improve our lives.

Hello again

For my past commands I want to apologize because it upset you/No matter who was wright/ i think important thing is friendship/ it happened because of my pride/

It is very nice to enroll a distance education program.

If the languages which have being used by people to communicate with each other are natural languages, then for programming languages, can we say they are synthetic languages? People have also been using their own language to make science and literature in addition to communication. As everyone knows, scope of the written language is wider then spoken languages. I should states that if any language has not any written literature and peoples of that language
do not create science than that language and civilization of that langugae can not improve and gradually disappeared.

No matter what they are, languages are tools. Than, important thing is what do you want to do with it. I f you are interested in literature, then your literature vocabulary improve, if you are interested in science then your science vocabulary improve, if you are interested in business your business vocabulary improve.

I think after some certain age it is vary difficult to learn vocabularies from a wide range of area of that language belongs to. So, than, importing thing is what is your ambitions and motivation. If you try to learn every thing you cannot manage it.

For the synthetic language same consideration is true. What do you want to do with it? And you can learn it by using it.

Best regards.

Hello Omar,

Congratulations for all your blogs. They are as clear as cristal. Your ideas are clearly expressed and your English is excellent. I would like to attract your attention to some minor mistakes related especially to spelling. For example, ’i’ , personal pronoun is always a capital letter. It is also the case for Italy. I Know that these mistakes are made just by inattention, but they very important in English. English teachers do not accept them. I would like our teacher to correct me of I am wrong.

Coming back to the prevous blog, I totally agree with your choice of the saying : "People are always trying to lenghten their life, while widen it would be easier." And you are right. Only few people try to enlarge the horizon of their lives in terms of studies just for the sake of learning new things and broadening their knowledge. As you said, both of us are here with the aim of trying to be among those who seek knowledge. This is why we are at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Learning Enlish.

On the other hand, I would like to ask you if you do not mind to tell me what is the meaning of ‘ItalY’, the name of your country ? My country has different names depending on the language used : Morocco in English, Maroc in French, Marruecos in Spanish, Almaghrib in Arabic. I do not know how you call it in Italian. The meaning is also different. Morocco, Maroc and Marruecos mean fine soft leather made of the skin of goat, especially for making shoes, covering books, etc. In the past Morocco was exporting this kind of leather called morocco. This is why its name has become like this. But Almaghrib has another meaning. It means the sunset. It is located far to the west of the lands that were known at a certain period of time in the past.

I am sure each country’s name has its proper meaning. This is why I think it is interesting to know about these names.

All the best,

Elmansour, from Casablanca, Morocco

Hi Omar,

Excellent post!

That is great information you have shared. I like that professor's commitment, he left his comfort zone to help the less privileged. Hats off to him and to you for such a wonderful topic!

I agree, every specialty has its set of jargon, which might sound Greek and Latin to those outside that field, be it medical, engineering, business etc.

Also, the internet provides us many opportunities to improve in any field of our choice, rather than whiling away time on social networking sites as Cleiton Rafael mentioned.

Omar, even I noticed this seems like a meeting place of people around the world and its interesting to know the point of views of different people and nations.

Would love to know more about Italy, I know its the land of my favorite pizza, Leaning tower of Pisa, do enlighten us more as Elmansour rightly stated.

Looking forward for your next post,
So long,
Sumayya, India

Hi Omar!
I' m very glad to get in touch with you again.
I hope you are fine.
As usual your post has proved very interesting, focusing on matters never poor or just ordinary. Congratulations !
Let' s start with internet and its power to tear down any hurdles to get education even for those who couldn't differently afford .
The story of that American professor who quitted his job (arguably good and profitable) to set up a free university is a clear example of how much democratic the net may result. Hearing from it made me hope in a better world future!
Earlier, I mean when internet was not acccesible as it is nowadays, just few people had that chance to widen their lives broadening their knowledge, if I can quote Elmansour's words.
Today, fortunately, thanks to tecknology that doesn' t happen any longer.
Moving to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ LE, I feel the same about the chance to communicate with people from all over the world . I also get excited to learn different opinions or ideas related to countries I guess perhaps I'll never be to .
I ' m looking for beeing replied from you ! Don' t

Hi Omar,
My previous post misses greeeting.
I' deeply sorry.
Fine regards.
Andi4

Hello Tenocht, penpals are always a good idea, if they are foreigners, and they are willing to mar and correct your writings, they are even better!

Hello DavoÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½! apart from Shakespeare, I thin english people should thank us foreigner people that speak their language, because we keep the idiom alive, always wired with the modernity, even with our mistakes! I invented a new english word, for example that I hope will spread all over the world in the next years: "Accentourous", that means the behaviour of a people that wors for Accenture, a very big consultancy company. if you know some of them, you know what I mean. I think it deserve a word dedicated to describe it :-)

Hello Claiton Rafael, and thank to you for commenting!
(I'm sorry but my daughter messed up the eyboard, and i have some difficulties in typing some letters, like K.)

Aliozturk, my friend, i got your point. the reason i need to learn something about programming language is that i had to turn down too many good ideas in the past because i wasn't able to put the idea into practice, because of lack of skills in programming. so i think this is a good chance for me to learn this, improving my english while attending lessons.

Hello Elmansour, I'm glad we agree on the point of learning. My country name in my language is Italia. it remain almost the same in other countries (Italy, Italie, Italien...) except for Poland, there they call my country WÅ‚ochy, i don't know why, there is any Polish student that could explain this? The origin of the name Italia is unclear, some theories say that it's because there where a lot of calves and bulls, and the name of calves in italian is quite similar to Italia. there are other theories, saying that the name comes from the greek word for volcano, but nobody know which is the real one.

Elmansour, another thing, we had been looking for a cheap flight to casablanca, to have a few days off visiting a part of morocco we don't know, at the beginning of november, but the fares are not convenient as usual, that's a pity, because if we had find a bargain fare, maybe we would have had a coffee together!

Hello Omar,

Thank you for your explanation of the name "Italia". It helps me to get an idea about what it means, that's enough.

Your are welcome to Casablanca; I would be glad to be your host. Try again to find the way to come to Morocco. You'll find it very different from Italy.There are some periods during the year in which big discounts are offered to tourists. Just don't give up your travelling project. It will be great, and I'm looking forward to meeting you very soon.

You are Welcome,

Elmansour

You right Udasity is great, I have watched a couple of their HTML lessons, very well explained and structured. I like the way they teach, without any complicated terminology they start with the basic ideas and make you practice all the time, which is really great because as it's said practice makes it perfect. One more free on line educational source is Coursera, they have many courses in many fields including Business and Computer Science. Good Luck in learning Python!
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Hi Sumayya, I totally yagree with you, while regarding your requests about Italy, I tried to write something about it in my last blog, my original plan was to ask you if you are interested in receiving the work in porogress of a book about travelling in Italy that I'm planning to start writing, but my email address has been removed from the post. However, on the last blog you could find my family name, and if you are interested in this project you can use it to find me on the internet.
bye!

Hi Andy, I really enjoyed writing here and talking with you and the other guys, this is a special place, I will come back here also after the end of my month, of course. Regarding your comment, yes, we are lucky because internet gave us a lot of new possibilities, but I think this is just the beginning of the way internet will change our lives!

Hi ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½_fan, I enrolled to a couple of coursera course just to see how it works, but to me is too difficult to respect the due date of avery weekly homework and quizzes, to me, cause I'm not a student, I've a full time job and a family to take care of, it's better to follow the lessons at my own pace, so I definitely prefer Udacity, but for real studens, Coursera could be a great alternative.

Hi Omar & everybody here on the forum,

Fist of all I must say that Omar you are an exceptional blogger. I am new to bbc site and just now only I registered here so that I can post my comment. Let me tell you a short story why did I join this site.
I was just surfing the internet, looking for some good site where I can improve my English and I found your blog: /blogs/learningenglish/2012/09/how-to-improve-your-english.shtml
Amazing story and very innovative way to improve English, another thing I liked here is how people are getting involved and contributing. It is really inspiring. So I kept reading your blogs and then carrie's blogs and I found it is a wonderful way to improve your written English. Furthermore, the content is educative indeed.
Thank you so much.
Keep it up.
Namrta
India

Hi Omar,
Thanks for letting me know about Sebastian Thrun.