It is great to connect with all of you here! google groups is a great platform to communicate an exchange ideas. Hopefully someday you will be able to access facebooks and other sites without running into any problems.
If you are able and have time to joing the facebook take some time to respond to the discussions. Hopefully some native english speaker will be compelled to join the group and help us in our learning journey by correcting our grammar and spelling. I still believe the best and most effective way to learn English is through daily interactions with people whose first language is English... there are allready a few american members ready to help us in the process. Post any questions you may have about the language or the culture. Jamie Coch, an American Member of the community has posted the following question in one of the forums: For those of us that happen to only speak English, what is the best way we can help? As I mentioned the help of native speakers is key to our success in learning English. Go to Facebook and answer the question. This will help natives help us out. If you, as mentioned above, can't access facebook post the response to this group and I will post it on the facebook group. I will then compile the answers and comments and send it to you via ESL Podcast Study Group Talk to you soon, Regina On Dec 15, 7:25 am, Rui Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jane, > > Nice meeting you here! I am chinese too. > > I know it deeply, our government has blocked many websites for political > reasons, which is not fair. This situation cannot be improved in a twinkle, > could even become worse over time. However, please keep in mind that nothing > is perfect, even the way the websites were blocked. Get up and look for the > leak in the roof which shutting out daylight. > > There is a easiest way: try the proxy site: "Air-Proxy.com", which used to > be very helpful. Enter the address of the website in the input frame and > click the button with "surf!" on it. The only problem is the bandwidth has > been limited badly via this site. Well, try to > visithttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofFaY9P5EKIto hear what Claire bring > us---the song of the week! You'd likely wait buffering for several minutes > before catching it. > > Good Luck! :) > > Rui > > 2009/12/15 Jane Wu <[email protected]> > > > > > Hi Regina, > > > Thanks for your information. > > Without doubt,it is a good news for us with great interest in learning > > English. > > I'm a Chinese.In our country,we can not connect lots of famous > > websites,such as Youtube, > > Facebook,etc.I'll try my best to jion the learning coummunity. > > Thanks again~! > > Have a nice day~! > > > Jane Wu > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:32 PM, rvertiz <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hi Everyone, > >> My name is Regina and as a native Spanish speaker and learner of > >> English I am very interested in helping out other ESL learners. I have > >> joined this group with two purposes in mind. One to help in any way I > >> can as I believe we can all learn from each other and secondly to > >> invite you to share a group I just created on facebook to promote peer > >> to peer collaboration. I am also working on my Master's degree in > >> Learning Technologies and focusing on learning communities. > > >> The group is located at > >>http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=201672389626 > >> and it is just in its infancy... I hope together we can build a strong > >> community of people interested in the English Language. The full > >> description is below... > > >> Thanks a million! > >> Regina Vertiz > > >> --------------- > > >> Inspired by my own journey learning English and by the works of > >> Etienne Wenger on Communities of Practice, this group is an attempt to > >> build a strong community of native English speakers and English > >> language learners from around the world interested in helping one > >> another improve their English. > > >> So what is a Community of Practice? A term coined by Etienne Wenger in > >> the early 90’s, a community of practice is group of with a common > >> interest who engage in a process of collective learning. In the case > >> of this community the shared interest is English. > > >> I encourage you to join if you are interested in learning English, > >> improving your English, or in helping others learn English. You are > >> also encouraged to ask questions about spelling, grammar, etc and > >> should welcome the comments and corrections. > > >> In this group we are all teachers and learners at the same time and we > >> can all contribute to the learning process of our group mates. > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "ESL Podcast". > >> To post to this group, send email to: [email protected] or just > >> reply this message > >> For invite your friends, visit: > >>http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/members_invite > >> Know how help us, visit this FAQ at: > >>http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/web/frequently-asked-questions > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "ESL Podcast". > > To post to this group, send email to: [email protected] or just > > reply this message > > For invite your friends, visit: > >http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/members_invite > > Know how help us, visit this FAQ at: > >http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/web/frequently-asked-questions- > >Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ESL Podcast". 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