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A good initiative. I have seen some posts where the person is unable to express his thoughts. I think I will join these classes too.

ohhh,, gr8 brother

Well, good initiative. I'm in ! How do we go ahead? and yeah, our administrator can help us! He is good in English. 😀

Don't have false impressions, guys. I'm far from being good at English. We only request our CEans to follow basic rules and strict NO to SMS text.

hmm.

How about some self search in CE and looking how the same idea could have been expressed?

ok.

you say your are skill full at some thing.

what would you say if you are not so good at it?


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This is good!

A great way of improving english would be writing more articles 😀 Hopefully we'll have more competitions like those.

We could gather some materials on improving english for engineers, not only for forum environment, but also report writing (link it with Mayur's initiative). That'll be beneficial for students for sure.

Maybe split the lessons into different parts. So, Lesson 1: Expressing your idea with the correct vocabulary. etc. Of course, that'll only work if theres genuine interest in trying to improve their english.

Yep, we'll regularly have such contests.

Hi Durga this is a nice idea. We all are trying to improve our communication skills too.

durgahmm.

you say your are skill full at some thing.

what would you say if you are not so good at it?


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ok no one attempted this . no worries..

the right word is 'inept'.
sentence: Dexter was dexterous but dee dee was 'inept' at scientific experiments

synonyms:
dexterous - skill full
inept - without a skill

guys I would need your help to get this going. Please start off!
shoot your sentences and suggestions..

its helpfull and usfull too to student like me thanks all i ll start this lessons..

Safwan ,

Nice to know that you are willing to imrpove your communication skills

So donnot be offended if I re arrange your sentence

"its helpfull and usfull too to student like me thanks all i ll start this lessons.."

firstly you are mentioning two advantages 1 helpful and second useful
and you are using too

so your sentence would look much better if it was " its both helpful and useful .

i feel its for students rather than to students .. guys you need to correct me here 😔
secondly, do use punctuation marks when you write

so..
"its both helpful and useful for students like me.Thanks all.I will start these lessons"

what say?

Durga, you are a natural English teacher 😀

Yea, the IELTS materials would be useful. Perhaps each lesson can be a separate thread and we can "sticky" them. What do you think, biggie?

Durga,

I have already said that its a nice initiative. To start with, why dont you list down few problems faced by engineers while communicating and then help them out by suggesting solutions?

For example, we Indians have a stupid habit of forming large sentences. Next, they often get confused in complex tenses (past present, future perfect etc.) It will be nice to start a tutorial on this. Let me know if you need my help.

ok Sirjee!!

the problem what i am facing now is .. where should I start from?
firstly vocabulary
2.sentence formation
eg: i want like a good project blah.. blah .. blah..
3.miss usage of tenses
i am wanting to join blah.. blah.. blah...
4.using spoken slang as written English!!! ehhh!!!
pls pls pls give a good project to me..
using multiple 'pls' doesn't emphasis on the urgency,It just indicates grammatical mistake
5. using mothe tongue grammar, i mean forming the sentence in the same way as what we fomr in our mother tongues

instead of 'can I have it? ' using ' I can have it?' you defnitely can't form ' can I have it ' in your mother tongue.

so we should kick start at one point. we need to decide which will be the corner stone for this.

Well you certainly are a good teacher, Durga.

ashDurga, you are a natural English teacher 😀

Yea, the IELTS materials would be useful. Perhaps each lesson can be a separate thread and we can "sticky" them. What do you think, biggie?

yeah ! need to do something 😀

Well, I think engineers in organizations tend to talk a lot of jargon and less personal opinions. Its hard for them to liaise properly with other departments like marketing and so on. But, I dont think its a language problem.. its more of communication protocols.

Back to this initiative, maybe we'll start with the english aspect, and we'll try to relate it to the engineering environment. I guess we can follow the pathway listed by Durga, i.e. vocabulary, etc. I also have some materials, but more so towards occupational purposes. I can add it with Durga's ones.

I appreciate the initiative....

i'll try my level best

Amjathi'll try my level best

hi Amjath!!

Good that you want to try your level best!!!

So let's start with you.

Tell CE about you..

hi i would like to add something , we were discussing about a word dextrous ,there is another word Ambidextrous means a person able to work with both the hands.
a famous ambidextrous - Lenardo da vinci.
and there was a planning going on there for english teaching in the forum.
i am eagarly waiting for that so please i am ready to contribute and participate in all the events or forums or watever to improve my language, so guys am ever ready for the big battle which fetch me a knowledge which am waiting for.😎

Ambidextrous means a person able to work with both the hands

Speaking of this word, it's etymology is as follows:

the greek word 'ambi' means 'both';
'dexter' means right handed.

In early days, the concept of left handedness was not known. Or rather, it was rare. So, if you do something with your right hand, you are skillful at it. So, ambidextrous means skilled equally in using both hands. The opposite, ambilevous is formed in the same way.
'levous' means 'left handed'. which means, he's not skillful in something. So, ambilevous means clumsy and unskilled in using either hand.

This is an example of using etymology or the roots of the word to develop vocabulary. I highly recommend the book "Word power made easy" by Norman Lewis for this.

Hey...dear friend.......thanx...I really need friends just like you....I would like to join you for improoving my english..........would you plzz give me some ideas to get acheived this target?

shuklrakeshHey...dear friend.......thanx...I really need friends just like you....I would like to join you for improoving my english..........would you plzz give me some ideas to get acheived this target?

BASIC RULES:
1.no long string of .... No need to say you are waiting when you are typing
long string of dots are basically used in a sentnece when you have a lot to write but cant do it due and skip the portion of sentence

for eg: think......flower

see from above sentnece you can make that the sentence begins from think and ends with flower but really dont know how long is the sentence


2.spell thanks .😀

English-Scaredhi i would like to add something , we were discussing about a word dextrous ,there is another word Ambidextrous means a person able to work with both the hands.
a famous ambidextrous - Lenardo da vinci.
and there was a planning going on there for english teaching in the forum.
i am eagarly waiting for that so please i am ready to contribute and participate in all the events or forums or watever to improve my language, so guys am ever ready for the big battle which fetch me a knowledge which am waiting for.😎

woah!change your name to englishspeaker!! haha! cool😁
fristly, this is no class 😀 no ones a teacher here, we are sharing what we know is correct. so start contributing.

I'm ambidextrous, only in basketball though 😛

Regarding trailing dots, those are only used when you are quoting from a source. So, in your report for example:

As Kaustubh (2008) mentioned in his master thesis, 'Screw it, lets do it ... I am what you are not.'

Generally, three dots are used if you are skipping a word or few words. Four dots are used if you are skipping whole sentences.

I'm not sure if this differs from referencing styles though.

Hey, tell you what I was not aware of the of usagefour dots(....) .
and talking about being ambidextrous, I was trying to imitate one of my physics lecture back in my college. He was amazing, on the right end of black board he would use right hand and on the other end left hand!!

Thanks dear, really I was not aware of uses of four dots(....) and initative nature really impressed me a lot. Surely we will learn a lot with each other.Take care. Meet u soon on CE

By using an inexorable weapons of word power we will get full command on english soon and all of you are doing the same.. Great dear.Keep it up it's really joyous.

Hi Durga,

Its good to emphasis about importance of communication skills in this forum. On my experience,lack of communication skill is due to lack of practise in communicating with the people in English.Even me i can write on any topic without grammar mistakes but the problem is I cant speak on the same topic.

A good initiative.

Hats off.

A suggestion from my side. "Inculcate the Habit". Try to communicate in English most of the times. Do not be afraid if your vocabulary is weak. It will improve by time. Do not feel embraced if some one corrects you. Try to consult dictionary on regular basis for any new word you come across.

I am also trying to "Inculcate the Habit"

cheers

ashuashi"Inculcate the Habit"

hey, thanks for the peice of advice! It was missed before.

ashuashi"Inculcate the Habit"

hey, thanks for the peice of advice! It was missed before. 😀

is left hand for rubbing what he wrote, just kidding.
thanks silver scorpion for your information.i will contribute after a few days as such i am reading a book word power made easy, then we can play around with words as well.
guys , please suggest a good book for english grammar other that Wren and Martin.

Why not Wren Martin?

i have that book , so i need some other good book which can provide many examples than w & m.

here is some other books for vocabulary..

6 weeks to words of power
Tyranny of words

Ans as for grammar, I personally think Wren and Martin is about as good as it gets. Other books... well, you have the internet, so you can get as many examples as you want.

ok All,

I have come out with two ideas. this very basic plan-suggested by Biggie though!

I have found this site with a good number of words, each day on word will be discussed along with few sentences.
Not only synonyms. it will make the game boring, we will try and find all the anonyms as well( words with opposite meaning)😁

there is no restriction that only one person should initiate, everyone can do the samey

second being a hangman, but it will be of only for vocabulary building
A meaning of a sentence is given and - - - - - - - - will be given for words,
guessing the meaning and inputting each alphabet to fill the blank.

every user can input only 1 alphabet at one time 😀 and not more than 2 per day( this is just to allow other to contirbute as well)

if incase the word is not out by 2 days or if the number of guesses have exceeded the word count , then the quizzzer get a point 😀

so all ready?
click here -> #-Link-Snipped-#
click here -> #-Link-Snipped-#
and guess what at end of every three months we change the games( word building will hang on though)

Biggie any modifications needed?

oops! site is:<a href="https://www.visualthesaurus.com/wordlists/3370" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">GRE great wordlist : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus</a>

Great going there Durga... cool.

hi whats ur name? and where r u from?

What is the progress on this initiative? No new word game or a tutorial?

Durga where are you?

hi mayur,

two word games have started.

one is amlost dead! 😔
the other one has two to three regular members...

good initiative... but how....? lets create a forum 4 it...

Forum ?? sounds Crazy dude.

shoaib_y4u2good initiative... but how....? lets create a forum 4 it...

firstly,
Forum for it . no SMS language in CE 😀
secondly, CE itself is an awesome forum for people who recognise it's potential. So any ideas just shoot out here. There are many many infact 32K+ people who listen to you

I dont know about 32k+... nearly half of forum members are spammers, along with half of page hits (or more).

InstinctzI dont know about 32k+... nearly half of forum members are spammers, along with half of page hits (or more).

You never need 32K+ answers.

All you need is a SINGLE appropriate and correct answer. so we are not bothered about leechers here in CE , we have our very efficient Mods who weed out spammers so dont you worry about it 😁

WELCOME TO CE

Welcome to CE ..
Dont check for the Negatives there will be anywhere like spammers here.

learn here you can learn much 😎😎