Eating crow and humble pie?

[Sheikhgulzar]

i am really pleased to be a member of english teaching and learning group.The latest essay teaching how to use" sorry" in english atmosphere is really informative.
I am Sheikh Gulzar Ahmad Govt teacher from Jammu and Kashmir India.I've completed MA.in English through IGNOU in 2004.I want to speak correct and fluent englishl.

with best regards.
GULZAR

[Alora]

Dear Alan,

Thank you very much for your essay 1.I understand most of the story but some words I didn't understand and I need to use the dictionary.Thank's for links all "English Grammar Stories" and I have one question - what is better, to wait your next essay or to take another from links.I use several apologize words : "sorry", "excuse me", "I'm sorry", sometimes I use body language etc.

Best wishes,
Alora

[Lena Raing]

Good day Allan Townend
Thank you very much for you email. It is a first email from you to me
You essay too long and difficult for me to understood. I didn't understand some word. So, I must open dictionary one by one. Some sentences make me confused. I had read your explained for Lee. That among other of sentence which make me confused.
I need a lot of time for understand totality of your essay. But as far as I like that. thank you

Regards,
Lena Raing

[Kevinzos]

Dear Allan

I discover an interessting text based on the situations from which the right rules of human being order to apologize when you are mistaken. There are many kinds of expressing this feeling and the text shows us this kind as "sorry", "excuse me", "I'm sorry" and so on.

This text contains some difficults words that can be learnt in the way of increasing the current vocabulary.

All my recognition for the efforts you are implementing on this site

Best regards

kevinzos

[Kevinzos]

Another feeling from kevinzos

I would like to add somthing about the interest I found in this text.
It really raises the level of my understanding of some idioms used in great speaking situations.
"...a good example of pie in the sky for most of us..." ..So let's all raise our glasses (full of water of course) and drink to their health: Cheers!

The fluency in english is the fact of people who are reading and using simultaneously the words they
meet in the news phrases. I try this behaviour as soon as it is possible but it's difficult to do it if you lack of time.
However, as english learners we have to assess our level with news words.

Thanks for all

kevinzos

[Sanguan Khiewkhum]

Good afternoon everyone I'm sanguan from Thailand. hi Torsten two week ago I' can't send my photo to you I' don't know what hapene with my conputer ok I'm try again next time.

Regards.
khiewkhum

[Alexandranow]

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Dear Alan, thank you so much. I loved that interesting essay, with the history of the origin of expressions. I hope the following stories should be as good as that one. I am pleased.
You must know that I enjoyed the reading of your essay. Great job, well done!
See you soon,
I am looking forward for your next story.
Sincerily
Alexandra

[Achmad Soepanto]

I found some new words that made me to look for the meaning in the dictionary. And it made me to use to know these new words

[Toñis]

Hello, Alan!

I like this essay very much. In it, there are many expressions that have a different sense than the comon use and they are interesting.

Sorry is a magic word. We can use in all situations when we have to give excuses for a mistake made. When we do not want to make something, to ask pardon, to avoid a debt, and so on. It is a wonderful word which help much the human being to leave out from some behavior problems.

Bye

[Goodmahsa]

hi dear Mr.Alan
thank u very much for your nice essay you sent to me :) I don't pretend i understood every single word or all sentences but I got it as a whole.i enjoyed it very much.
hi dear Mr.Torsten
about your question.hhhhmmm let me think I use the word of 'sorry'in many situations I think it shows our politeness.but using body languages while expressing your apologies is very important also ,in order to prevent the notion of weakness or sth like that in the mind of the person you encounter with.I myself always add a smile and a special form to my face and hands that i can't show u here :D (and till now it always has worked for me )and often in return ,after a brief frown i receive a smile and sentences like no problem :)

[Yuri Yurinov]

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Dear Alan,

Thank you very much for your essay. I think that an "essay" is a story which helps to discover the very "essense" of a chosen problem, and these words even sound almost alike. I enjoyed reading the essays written by John Priestley, a famous writer and essayist, and I enjoyed them very much, I've read your essays, and, Alan, I enjoy them very much too.
The essays make us take a much deeper insight into the things we sometimes consider usual ones, and they make us try to discover something unusual in the usual. Often people start chasing "pies in the sky" but many of them fail because they choose the easiest and dishonest ways to get them, and they end up eating a "humble pie".
I wish I had more time to write a little bit more, but, I'm sorry...

Best regards,

Yuri
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[Narcise]

HI TORSTEN,

I WANTED TO HAVE THE BOOK "English Test Package" AND I BOUGHT IT THROUGH PAY PAL. SO, I PAYED IT ABOUT A MONTH AGO, BUT I DIDNT RECEIVE ANY BOOK. WHEN CAN I HAVE IT? IT IS IMPORTANT FOR ME TO HAVE IT.
ALINA

[Jonida]

Hi Alan
I really liked the essay a lot. I must say that it was a little difficult but I think the secret was reading it twice or more in order to understand and translate it well . Although I opened the dictionary many times I was not bored and I enjoy the essay.According to your question during every day life I'm quite careful and don't use the word "sorry" or apologize a lot but sometimes I do .
Thanks a lot
JONA

[Anali]

hi emil


ar fi bine sa nu-ti mai vorbesti tara de rau, ca si asa e rau vazuta . vrei sa-ti fie rusine ca esti roman?

[Alan]

Hi Anali,

Can you write in English, please.

Alan
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