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Thant Myint-U             Thant Myint-U ( Burmese :သန္႔ျမင့္ဦး [θa̰ ɴ mj ɪ ̰ ɴ ʔ ú] ; born 31 January 1966) is a historian, a past Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, an adviser to the President of Myanmar, and the founder and chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust . [1] He authored two bestselling [2] [3] and critically acclaimed books, The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma [4] and Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia [5]

"Yah! Yah! Yah!" by Jack London               He was a whiskey-guzzling Scotchman, and he downed his whiskey neat, beginning with his first tot punctually at six in the morning, and thereafter repeating it at regular intervals throughout the day till bedtime, which was usually midnight. He slept but five hours out of the twenty-four, and for the remaining nineteen hours he was quietly and decently drunk.

Are you a glass-half-full person? (Everyday Idioms) July 29, 2015 by Kate Woodford ​ A reader of this blog recently asked for a post on idioms that are used in everyday English. This seemed like a reasonable request. After all, if you are going to make the effort to learn a set of English idioms , you want those idioms to be useful. The question, then, was how to decide which idioms to write about. There are a great number of idioms in the English language, but some are rarely used. In the end, I decided to keep an idioms diary for a week, and make a note of any idioms that I heard people use in conversation. From this set of idioms, I chose a few that I considered to be common in contemporary , conversational English and have presented them here.

How to Criticise People without Causing Offence Lifestyle by TejvanPettinger In life we often need to criticise the actions of others, yet at the same time it can be a daunting task. Nobody likes being told their are wrong or need correcting. Yet, just because people may not like being criticised, doesn’t mean we can avoid doing it. If we allow people to continue doing the wrong thing, we will just resent their action and inwardly hold it against them. This is not a good situation; however, it is quite possible to criticise others, without making them our permanent enemy. These are some tactful Ways to criticise others:

How to motivate yourself as an English language learner? 03.29.2012 Anastasia Koltai The question: “How to motivate yourself as an English language learner?” might sound a bit silly. But based on my experiences in a lot of cases it can be an obligation made either by the learner, school or workplace, which can often end in a kind of unmotivated state of mind for those who would like to spend their free time with another activity. So if you do not feel like learning English but you have to, this short article might put you in the proper mood. English has rapidly gained the title for one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world in the recent years of globalization.

How to motivate yourself as an English language learner? 03.29.2012 Anastasia Koltai The question: “How to motivate yourself as an English language learner?” might sound a bit silly. But based on my experiences in a lot of cases it can be an obligation made either by the learner, school or workplace, which can often end in a kind of unmotivated state of mind for those who would like to spend their free time with another activity. So if you do not feel like learning English but you have to, this short article might put you in the proper mood. English has rapidly gained the title for one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world in the recent years of globalization.