The only sport I really like

[Akshay]

Hi allan,

Tennis is a sport which I never played in all my life and I want to do it tomorrow.
Thanks to inspire me to play it.
Sachin.

[Jorg3]

Just to Re-editing some Sentences, I have reply this:
There is one glorious exception for me and that comes under the heading of tennis

Should it be like:
I felt sucessfull when news papers head my achieve.

[Arigirl]

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Hi Alan:
I don´t know wath the player think about the cynics people or
if he just concider himself like a scottish and he deny the brithish flag.
otherwise I don´t know about tennis I like play but I don´t see players game on tv.
sometimes I have heared some comments about Connors, Gabriela Sabatini,
and kournikova . but it is not my pasion.
it was interesting your post.
thaks.
Ari.

[Arigirl]

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Hi Alan :
travel is wonderful ,we can´t forget that moments , although we hadn´t
a good time but when we remember always be funny .
you story was funny.
thanks
Ari.

[Maia K]

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Hi, What do you mean ''your last mistake is your best teacher''? Would you mind explaining it please?

[Maia K]

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Hi Alan, I can't understand the combination of '' A man of obsessed''.
Do you mean you are the obsessed man? & and what part of speech is obsessed? adjective? Thanks a lot.

[Hu.ji]

hi my all friends, my english is very poor so i do not know how can i improve english.

[Valimasl]

this is the best site i have ever worked on because this site is full of everything you want to improve your english
so i nearly am online everyday at least for one hour , mostly answering the tests .
i am now number 184 , so i think i am a serious rival
god willing i will come fist oneday !

[Khayyam06]

I like paragliding. It is an extereme sport. But i really enjoy paragliding. There are a lot of good places in Turkey for doing this sport. But the best place in the world is Austria.
Anyone who wants to ask any question about paragliding, he/she will get an explanation. I will try to write my best about it.

[Josazapr]

Dear Alan It´s a very interesting essay and let me tellyou that in my country it happens something similar, if an immigrant' s son or daughter has success in "that" country, he/she is A COLOMBIAN, if not, "who are you talking about?" who's that? Thanks a lot Alan.

[Jalil's Fellow]

I gotta say one of my favorite sports is tennis. i hate soccer lol I dont like it at all. It's kind of boring for me. I preffer to play tennis, basketball or baseball rather than soccer. that doesn't mean t I watch every tennis match or basketball game on tv. i prefer playing it to watch it. lol

[Political Lurker]

Alan
Someone once told me (Probably an Australian) That when an Australian says he is interested in Sport - They ordinarily mean "Playing" it.

But when a British person says he is interested in sport - they invariably mean "watching it on tv"

I agree with the "Scottish/British" thing - which is a normal part of the "BBC" presentation - Can you remember Mary Peters? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Peters_(athlete)

every time she won she was "British" every time she lost she was "Irish"

But with Lawn tennis there seems to be such a poetic irony about the whole thing.

The cucumber sandwiches brigade and the whole tennis scene (Apart from Wimbledon fortnight) is woven almost exclusively into the upper class's which means there's not enough working class participation thereby limiting potential success.
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Any day you wake up on "the right side of the dirt" is a good day.

[Dmitry Korotaev]

Hi Alan!

Thank you for that wonderful essay. I really enjoyed it. However, as usual, I have a question regarding a sentence from the text:

“Thus whenever there is the slightest possibility of that record being created, whenever there is the merest hint that we might win, hysteria breaks out.” – What does “hysteria breaks out” mean from this context?

Yours Truly,
Dmitry Korotaev
Moscow Region,
Russia

[Alan]

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Hi Dimitry,

Thank you for your appreciation. What I meant by

[Dmitry Korotaev]

Thank you,

Now I understand what you mean: we had the same, when Russian football team beat Netherlands under the quarter-final of EURO 2008, it was really amazing. The streets were full of people celebrating the win. I guess such events unite the country and are really useful. I wish Russia participated at the World Cup coming soon.

Regards,
Dmitry