Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Read Online English magazines





 NOW,  I recommend to read online magazines to develop your sense of familiarity of how to construct English sentence and update what English words are currently using nowadays. I am not into grammar anymore, I usually features website that teaches grammar. But it's not really working for me, because of the range of sentence their using, one sentence at a time.                       

E.g., I have a car
     then, the past tense is I had a car.

About this stuff, I can say that I knew it already and need not to know this more.

I'm using English since pre-school and now, I am in my last college year. That's the reason I need to improve this language more, for my future employment. So, I need some intense English training.
Then, I decided to look around the internet and I wrote on the Google search bar "ENGLISH TEACHING WEBSITE" then thousands of results flashes on the screen.But when I open it, unfortunately, it didn't satisfies my need. Out of nowhere I accidentally open an online magazine, about sports. BOOM. Now I know the material that soothes for me the best.

All in all, If you're just starting to learn this language visit the sites I featured before.
But If you are more advance I recommend to go to online magazines available to your country. I can't give links because it usually has a viewer restriction.

Sunday, March 31, 2013

LEO network, Learn English Through Pictures




If you are a visual learner like ME, this site can help you to learn some of the grammar rules and can develop your vocabulary at the same time. What I like about this site is its simpleness, not so many unnecessary button to click. I really gets annoy when a website is very hard to navigate, when you need to click lots of next button just to read their entire article or whatsoever. OK, now let's begin.


They offer lots of categories:



Example post about adjectives:









                                                        I enjoy this website, Great for beginners.

Friday, March 29, 2013

English visual dictionary

This visual dictionary can help you to know what specific word to use when pointing out any object, andWhen you know what something looks like but not what it’s called, or when you know the word but can’t picture the object, The Visual Dictionary has the answer. In a quick look, you can match the word to the image.


 Enjoy these Visual dictionaries that I collected from different sources online :



  Technology:






Body parts


Kitchen wares


                                            Motor parts



                                              SPORTS










COLORS




                                                AIRPORT


                                       RANDOM(VISUALS)
















                 If you want more of these visit :
                       visual.merriam-webster

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Grammar girl from quick and dirty tips TM

                                                   
                                           QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS  

This site isn't all about grammar, It has almost everything from technology, health care and etc. What I like about this site, is their child friendly environment. They are using cartoons and friendly catching names for their different article sections. 






It has a section for Grammar usage called Grammar girl 


The good thing about this Grammar girl it provides podcast. (A Podcast is an audio program, like a homemade radio show, that is made by someone and then posted to the Internet )

She will read it for you :) and her voice is very sexy :) It helps you to determine how to pronounce the words while you reading the article Isn't that cute and wonderful? This site is Awesome for me. Very helpful.


You'll gonna love this site. Trust me !


Grammar girl also has a community in Google+ and Facebook.




Wednesday, March 27, 2013

basics: telling time


Let me explain this concept of telling time.

We use a.m. to talk about the time from 12 at night to 11.59 in the morning
We use p.m. to talk about time from 12 in the afternoon to 11.59 at night


o'clock can only be use when you want to tell a whole hour like 6 o'clock, two o'clock

A quater past to 3 - means 3.15 never include p.m., a.m., or o'clock
add 15 minutes to the whole hour

A quater to 3- means 2.45 same rule applied.

half past 3- means 3.30 same rule applied.

use "past" when you want to tell a minutes after the recent hour, and  "to" minutes before the next hour.

(minutes)past recent hour
(minutes)to next hour.
Use more convenient one.



Englishleap.com Free Online English tutorial

Check this another English tutorial website that I'm using it's quite familiar.


Their Grammar section is free. And their way of teaching is quite impressive. So simple to understand and they gave exercises before and after the concept.


 I am enrolled here for 2 weeks now.

 As you can see I have red status out there, They are strict on giving grades you must perfect all the exercises, no room for one mistake cause If you have one, your status will be red and you must try another round to get that green one.


Try it and enjoy!!

Philippines gets its Investment grade.


                            

                          Make that bull running :))


I'm doing this post unrelated to my blog, because as a student of Finance here in Philippines. I must share the beautiful news just pop up in my news feed. Philippines have reached his first ever Investment Grade. Isn't it beautiful? Fitch gaves the recent rating a BB+ from BBB-. It means that Philippines can handle his foreign debts now, and the economy is getting better. What's good about this rating for my country? The interest on borrowing foreign funds will be lower. So, the interest that we should pay for our credit can be used to other more productive projects. Isn't that great? I'm sorry for being enthusiastic about this, I just can't help it.
If I only have money to invest right now, in Stock market I'm sure all stocks there, will gone bullish. I hope this going to be stable for long years, but I know all bullish market will go down when time comes.