Thanks for your newsletter "Do you know where you're going?" (GPS)

[Timson Manullang]

Dear Alan,
I've been so proud to have your articles, but sorry for not replying them instantly. You know, schools in my country - Indonesia, have just been on the long holidays (semester break), so I spent most of my time hanging out with my beautiful family (a beautiful wife, a ten year-old nice daughter, and a two-year old cute boy), he...he... Sometimes, I think I almost got lost and didn't know where to go. Now I realize we all need to have our own GPS to direct and guide us to our directions, and I hope this forum can be an effective GPS for all of us, where we can share many of things, especially those dealing with English language teaching. Thanks again.

Best regards,

Timson Manullang - Jakarta, Indonesia.

[Guest]

dear Alan, thank you for sending your article! it was very interesting and funny.

[dochanhnhan]

I don't really understand what you mean but indeed, I love to learn English and it is very grate to know about E also bout another culture.
My English now is not good enough to communicate with anyone, I think so.
but I'm trying my best to improve. Although I always get many difficulties in learning English. I find it's hard for me when I try to speak(sometime I stammer), and in listening, it is very bad thing i am
can you advise me someway that.
I can base on to make a change in studying English?thank you very much for your helping.

dochanhnhan

[S.A.Reshad.Raghib]

Dear Alan Townend
First accept my apologise because due to some problem I could'nt send you my answer by the way I really love your team and your experience which you gave me was really interesting. the question which you asked about GPS, yes I know everything about it but I have not used it yet. It does'nt matter I will try. again thanks from your kind and respectable instructions. My full name is Reshad.Raghib I am from afghanistan and I am student in faculty of language and literature, English Department, fourth year.
Best regards
S.A.Reshad.Raghib

[Guest]

hello,
thanks Alan for the newsletter about GPS. I learned more new words. i would like you to send me more to increase my vocabulary. i teach English at a faculty in Egypt and i really like to be better in English.

[Guest]

hello again,
i think i am going to learn more about english here, but i need to be in contact with the rest of the readers here. could u tell me how i could do that?
thanks.

[mai_eassa]

[Torsten]

[Alan]

Hi mai_eassa,

For the record there is nothing negative about the word 'egg' in the context I used. It refers to a very pleasant and likeable person.

Alan
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[Guest]

Dear Mr. Alan,

I'd like to thank you for your informational as well as humorous messages. I love Shakespeare, so by quoting him it just made me more interested with what I was about to read next. Though I have never used it before, I think It could be interesting to use a GPS though. Maybe someday when I get to live in the states, or any western country, I'll get myself one. Thanks for all the messages that you have sent me, I really appreciate them.

[Guest]

how can i send my article to you?

[Alan]

Hi,

Simply send it to this forum:
http://www.english-test.net/forum/forum3.html

and click on 'new topic'.

Alan
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[Guest]

Hi,

Actually your letter is always striking and wonderful. Actually your way of writing is outstanding.

[Torsten]

Hi Alan,

As so many of your readers have said, your current newsletter issue is as brilliant as all your previous ones. I mean, how many writers would be able to make a logical and meaningful connection between GPS and Shakespeare? Talking of the latter, I'd like to thank you again for introducing me to Jane -- after I had used your TomTom on our trip to Dresden I got my own TomTom and have been very happy with it ever since. I opted for the British male voice (don't remember the guy's name) and he has been doing an excellent job but I'm of the impression that he sometimes says "Bear right" and sometimes "Keep right". Is this the same with Jane or am I imagining things?

Thanks,
Torsten

TOEIC listening, photographs: London

[Alan]

Hi Torsten,

Your 'director' is called Adam. We also noticed a reference now and again to 'Bear right' when it's the same road but it's usually when the road tends to bend round to the right. The reference to 'Keep right' was usually when there was a need to keep in the righthand lane where say on a motorway the lefthand lane is for another direction.

Best wishes from Jane to Adam!

Alan
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