Archive for the 'General' Category

Happy new year

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

……to every one all around the world , we know before of all about Christ that he was (and is) a good man and good men are belonging to human so we celebrate with all christians in the world and tell every one : Merry christmas !!! And a gift for the ETJ members :www.manythings.org/daily/ […]

Weekly Topic: Best of 2005

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Here we are at the end of 2005. Perhaps it’s useful to LOOK BACK and think about all that’s happened in your life this past year. There’s probably some good and some bad. Some happy moments and some sad moments. Goals that you accomplished and maybe some that remain for the future. Can you write […]

Happy holidays!

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Can you believe that 2005 is almost finished!! It’s really been a great year for my wife and I, and we’re looking forward to 2006. And now it’s the holiday season which means a little less work, and a little more time for socializing and leisure. I’m really looking forward to that! I’ve enjoyed reading […]

Merry Christmas!!!

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Today I’m not too busy on working and i think i will be writing something to merry Christmas everyone. Christmas is a birthday of Jesus Christ. Yeah! I’m a catholic. In my country town having a lot of church with many catholic, about 90%. Every church are decorated by color light, silver start … very […]

I want to improve my English skills.

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

The first day I’m a member of this site but this is not the first time i visit this site. I downloaded all available podcasts of English Teacher John and took listening exercise very much. I feel ETJ site is very friendly! I searched on the Internet to find a place to learn. I saw […]

Idiom

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Hi every one and specially Mr John because of his efforts and kindness . Please help me about the meaning of this idiom ” MIGHT is RIGHT ” . thanks a lot ….bye .

Basic English

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Basic English is a constructed language with a small number of words created by Charles Kay Ogden and described in his book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930). The language is based on a simplified version of English. from Wikipedia What do you think about that? I guest that it doen’t […]

Weekly Topic: Television (listen)

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

Well, everyone, I have to confess something to you. I REALLY DON’T LIKE television!! Even when I lived in the States, I didn’t like to watch TV very much. And later, during the many years that I lived in India, I didn’t even have a TV … and I didn’t miss it! Now in Japan, […]

I was in a snowstorm! (listen)

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

Hey, guess what?? I was in the middle of a snowstorm last Sunday! Really! My friend Charlie and I were riding our bikes on a road near Shiga village, just outside of Matsumoto. The road goes up into the mountains and it’s really a beautiful road. There were some clouds and snow flurries when we […]

Podcast Lesson 23 is now available!

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Hey everyone, I just finished our Podcast Audio Lesson Number 23. You can download it from the podcast page or with your RSS feed reader. Please send me any comments you have about Lesson 23. Here’s a summary of it: Your letters, new listeners and the first snowflakes of the season. Our language lesson is […]