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  • Pocket Electronic Dictionary — ECTACO Partner ER300T

    21 June 2007 ⋅ 3 min read ⋅ english

    You know, I’m fond of reading books. My true obsession is books by English and American science-fiction writers. William Gibson, Philip Dick, Arthur C Clarke just to name some of the favorites. I read all of them in original and, being non-native language speaker, face some problems with new words, idioms and phrases. I have several huge dictionaries bi- and mono-lingual as well as five desktop dictionaries on my laptop (Cambridge Advanced, Oxford Concise, Macmillan Advanced Learners, Collins Co-build, Oxford Collocations), but imagine how inconvenient it is to jump from a page to a laptop or a paper back then back to the page. This is why I seriously considered buying some good voluminous pocket electronic dictionary.

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  • Writing Revisiting

    1 March 2006 ⋅ 1 min read ⋅ english

    Recently I’ve been working on improving my writing skills: reading articles, books and recommendations from all over the web. It’s essential for me to be able to communicate the ideas freely in a written form as writing is the only pipe between me and most of my friends. Apart of it, I simply like to write and doing it in a right and easy way brings much more excitement than desperate attempts to put thoughts into order. But this is a whole different story…

    Today I stumbled across the Hints for Revising by Brian Marick which are a good collection of advices on how to make your writing clear, well-structured and deeply pleasurable. I suggest running through this article briefly even if you aren’t going to become the next Shakespear. Personally, I found several interesting tips and got the proof of that my post-writing reading technique works and works pretty well on behalf of the greatest minds out there. Oh, and I’m not the author of it of course. It’s just that I didn’t see it mentioned anywhere before, but regularily used it to revise my own creations.

  • English: Phrasal Verbs Crossword

    24 February 2006 ⋅ 1 min read ⋅ english

    Hey, English Learners! I’ve just got another fascinating Macmillan English update letter (which is great by the way). Among all wonderful things they have there, here’s something I would love to share with all of you. It’s not a secret to anyone that to sound natural you have to know word collocations, fixed phrases and phrasal verbs equally well. The latest are of a special importance as they help you bring some bright colors to your nicely showering speech. That’s why I’m especially excited to share the link to this phrasal verbs crossword.

    Oh yeah, and the answers are also available.

    Have fun!