The main reason that I set this blog is to practice my English writing, and my dream is that there are many people who join my blog and practice English together. I am very glad that Arjunan join my blog, and also shared some very useful information of how to improve English. I have to say thank god that I made a great step to my goal, even I don't believe god.
I was so happy that I couldnt' wait to write a welcome article for Arjunan on this blog. Therefore, I wrote this while I was preparing my presentation for the next day. Honestly, I planned at first to write this article in the next next week because I would be a little bit freer in those days. I am sure that the more people there are in this blog, the more motivation I will get to practice English writing.
Arjunan's joining really encouraged me a lot. Now, I am very sure that there is at least one person who will read my articles, or share good experiences, or even discuss things with me. I am so excited about it.
In the end, I would like to thanks Arjunan for the two wonderful articles and I hope he will write more and more great articles on this blog. Anyway, welcome to join this blog, Arjunan!
The following sites are really helpful for Esl students.I Have learnt a lot of things from these sites.
1.www.phrasemix.com
It is a very good site where you can learn many English phrases which helps in our day to day life.They are updating the informations everyday.Just take a look!!
2.www.talkenglish.com
This site is Awesome where you can find many phrases.You can improve your listening practice as well.
3.www.voanews.com
No words to express about this web site.it is really helpful for non native speakers.You can improve your listening practice tremendously.The way they pronouncing the word is really good.we can improve our listening skills.
4.www.speakspeak.com
Good site For grammar.grammar is very important in English which will help you to sharpen your grammar skills.
5.www.manythings.org
It is heaven for ESL students where you can find many good stories in English and you can improve your listening skills and many English tests Etc.
Hi Friends...I am very happy to talk with you by using this blog..Let me introduce myself first before moving to subject..I am Arjunan from Tamilnadu .I had finished my Engineering.This is My life few years back..Till 10th Standard i don't know even a single sentence to write or talk in English.
When i was joining the college,I came to know how the English communication plays a very important role.Many of my friends used to tease me a lot because i was from Tamil medium(local Language).From that day itself i have started to improve my skills.I have been improving my skills since 2005.I had a lot of obstacles when i was improving my skills.Many students are suffering a lot to improve Communication skills.
Follow these steps given below(It is from my experience).I am sure ,one day you will become master in that language.
1.Try to be very patience to improve your language skills.It is not a over night process.It is STEP BY STEP process.
2.Vocabulary is very important for any language.So take steps to improve Your vocabulary.Try to watch BBC, CNN IBN,NDTV,Times Now which helps a lot to improve your skills.Try to listen a news minimum for 30 minutes.you can improve your listening skills.you will find many unknown words.Try to put a separate Notebook and write down those words.
Example:-
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Compile - Select ,Collect
Ex - The police have compiled a list of suspects.
It is the easiest way to remember the words.Read minimum 5 words.Try to use that word in Conversations.
If you cultivate the following habits,You can find many new words.
*Reading News papers
*Watching News or English movies.
3.Pronunciation is very important in English.Many softwares are available in net,Download it.
* Wordweb(it is a dictionary which helps to know the meanings and gives a pronunciation)
*Speech(you can find this in your system(control panel).
4.Grammar.Don't Read too much grammar,Try to know the basics which is more than enough to talk.
*Tenses
*Voices(active voice & passive voice)
*Conditional Sentence
5. Don't be Shy...Practice is the key to Enhance your skills..Practice Practice Practice as much as possible..
I am sure,One day you will post your experience like me in your Blog..
When we use a computer, our files will store in the computer. Of course, all of us have known that we should backup our files frequently. Otherwise, when the hard disk is broken, our priceless files would be gone at the same time. If we use laptop, there will be another risk of loosing it or be stolen. In addition, I think that laptops are much easier to be broken, and when laptops are broken, they should be sent back to the service center to be fixed. There will be no chance for us to backup our files after laptops are broken. Unlike desktops, we can try to save our files after the desktop is crashed.
As I mention before, we should backup our files frequently. You may ask how frequently should we do? There is no standard answer for this question, honestly. It depends on how often we use computers. Take me as an example, I am postgraduate now, I have many important files every day, so I backup important files every day, and backup less important files once a month. The followings are some method I used to backup my files.
Dropbox is a web storage space which provides 2GB after we register an account. We can earn more spaces by inviting friends signing up in this website. The maximum space we can use free is 8GB. This website also provides a synchronized software. After we installing this software, there will be a new folder named "my dropbox" in the "my document" folder. When we put files in "my dropbox" folder, the files we put will be uploaded to web immediately. Last but not least, we can install this software in many computers of ours even in iphone or android phone, and then all files we put in "my dropbox" folder can be accessed in these devices. Therefore, if one of our computer is broken, we can still use the synchronized files from other devices or from the website directly.
There is an official video of introducing dropbox:
Windows batch files and a 500GB external hard drive
Dropbox is a very ideal tool to backup our files, but unfortunately, there is only 2GB for us to use. That is not enough for me, so I bought a 500GB external hard drive to backup some files which is less important. My less important files are the files which I don't use very often such as the projects I have done, or the photos I took. I would backup these files in the external hard disk. However, these files are not in the same folder, so it would be very troublesome if I copy and paste these files manually, and plus, these files are really large. Therefore, I use 7zip and write a batch file with xcopy command and 7zip command to backup my files automatically.
Here is my batch files:
@echo off
@echo Backup Files
@echo.
@echo The following files will be backup:
@echo d:\software
@echo d:\chw
@echo d:\research tools
@echo.
@echo.
@pause
cls
@echo Backing up files please wait................
@echo.
@echo.
rem set date value
@For /f "tokens=1-3 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set date=%%a-%%b-%%c)
rem compress files to 7-zip
cd d:\backup\
7za a -scsUTF-8 -mx=9 d:\backup\"backup files"\backup-%date%.7z d:\backup\"backup files"\backup-%date%\
@echo.
@echo.
@echo done!
@echo Files has been backuped in d:\backup\backup files\backup-%date%.7z
@echo.
@echo.
@pause
rem delete the folders
del /S /Q d:\backup\"backup files"\backup-%date%\
rd /S /Q d:\backup\"backup files"\backup-%date%\
I have to say it is not easy for me to write this file. I spent two hours finishing this files. If you want to try this method, you should download 7-Zip Command Line Version, and refer to the xcopy read me file. Other commands I used are echo, del and rd in the batch file. You can learn how to write a batch file in here, or just google it. I am sorry that I don't know how to write because I am not familiar with batch files, and I finished this batch files with google. Wish you enjoy it!
PS.
This is my first time to write a how to article. I hope all of you can know what I was writing.
In the past, when we want to listen to some music in computer, we must save music in the hard disk before we listen. The good thing is that we can listen to our favorite songs whenever we want, but the bad thing is that sometimes we don't save every songs. Thanks to the internet, now we can listen to our favorite songs even we don't have these songs in the hard disk. We can just surf on youtube and search for the songs.
However, it is not good enough for people who likes to listen to the music all the time. Because it is pretty annoying to add every music we like in the play list. It should take us many times to finish. So, I'm here to recommend some music website for people who like to listen to music a lot.
Well, it is a very famous website. I think many people have used it before. This site can record what you listened after you install the music player plug-in, and then there will not only show the songs that you listened but also recommend you some music you may like. If you pay a little money every month, you can use the radio function. Radio can play music which is related to the songs you like. For example, if you like Jason Mraz, you just type the key words in the radio, and then it will play music which is similar to Jason Mraz's music. That is pretty cool, right!
Jukefly is very incredible. It sorts songs from youtube albums by album. So you can listen a complete album on this website. However, music form this website is actually from youtube. Therefore, the quality of some music is not very good. You don't need you sign up an account to use this website, you can just listen to the music as a guest, but if you want to set up your own play list, you would need an account.
This site is pretty interesting and creative. You cannot search the songs you like in this site, on the contrary, this site will recommend songs after you type what you are doing or what you are feeling. There will be may play list for you to choose. Of course, you can check what songs are in the list after you click it. If you don't like the list, you can just try another. By using this site, we can find some nice music that we haven't heard it before. Playlistnow.fm also link to social websites. When you type what you are doing or what you are feeling, the message can be post directly on the social website, and also tell your friends what play list you are listening to. If you don't care this function, you can visit this site as a guest, but there will show up a windows to tell you to login or to sign up again and again. Don't worry, that won't affect you to listen to the music.
These music websites that I just found recently. Hope you like it, and I will be very glad if you can suggest me some other music websites. Enjoy it yourself!
It is a really long story about my notebook. I bought a Asus U35jc in the beginning of July. I was really excited because this is my first notebook. The feeling is just like the first time I got my own computer. However, one month later, it was broken. It couldn't be turned on after a crash. The broken timing was very awful. It was the time that I was preparing moving and getting really for lab. So, I couldn't fix it in my home town, I had to take it and fix in another place where is near my new house. That would make me have no computer to use for about a week so I had to move my old computer with me.
Anyway, this didn't bother me the most. The thing that bother me the most is that my notebook couldn't be fixed for a month. In this period, the laptop was fixed three times but none of these times it was completely fixed. Of course, Asus service officially claimed it was fixed every time when I got my laptop back but actually it wasn't. There were still problems every time. Finally, the service couldn't find the the way to fix the problems so they said that the problems were caused by installing incompatible software. I was very angry about that because if I installed incompatible software the problems should be showed up immediately not a month. Obviously, they were finding excuses.
Therefore, I told them if they couldn't fix the laptop, they should give me a new one not making excuses. Because I didn't want to waste my time on a broken computer. Fortunately, they agreed to change a new one for me at last ,but it still took a long time to get a new one.
I am using new one to blog my experience ,and I am hoping that my new notebook can be fine for a long long time, at least two years. I have to say Asus service is not bad actually. At least they would inform you the status. Nevertheless, the way they handle problems is not good at all. This may be caused by the useless repairer or the fact that they actually don't care about users' feelings. I am not sure I would give Asus another chance. I would like to say Asus is the last choice that I consider if I want to buy a laptop again.
