I would like to argue with Lucy or maybe Jeff in explonation of meaning the next phrase “looking a gift horse in the mouth”. Teeth is main indicator of horse’s health. It’s a gift and you will take gift horse in any case. Please, correct me if I’m wrong.

Have a nice day!

Just out of curiosity: how do you listen to the podcasts?

As always he does, on the mornings of this Monday or that Monday – the very time when “Podcasts This Week” announcement is released, he is all set himself
and gets ready to brainstorm, sitting in front of the Desktop computer in the, what he calls it, Internet Café named “Sky Net” – the only spot where he gets on
triple W (World Wide Web), how to carol (sing) his great teachers’ praises for their great work done and of course for the great work to come.

Having said that,
In his today’s note, he decided to make a difference, that is, to tell his teachers a story about a man. Myo ko ko says that the lame story that he
is just going to tell about opens up with a man saying:

“I shot an arrow into the air.”
“The arrow fell to earth that I didn’t know where because it flew very, very swiftly and so my sight could not follow it in its flight.”
“The other day,” the man in the story continued, “I breathed (sung) a song into the air.”
“Again, the song fell to earth, I didn’t know where, though!”
“Who know(s) where the song fell to?”
“Of course, nobody on this earth knows it because no one has such a “sharp” and “strong” sight that can follow the flight of a song.”
“Does anyone have such power of seeing?,” the man wondered.

Myo ko ko says that he is 100% sure that when the readers who are reading this story reach here, they will not even have a clue to
what the man was talking about, let alone (not to mention) to figure out what the story is all about. Myo ko ko confesses that he himself
got confused and was not able to make sense of what the man was talking about when he started reading the story. And he (Myo ko ko)
also adds that it was only when he’s got at the very end of the story, he was able to grasp the point in man’s words. So he (Myo ko ko)
wants to end up the story by dropping the man’s own sentences below instead of his:

“Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.”
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Well, Myo ko ko says that he’s had the very reason to put down this story here on this lovely Blog. When Myo ko ko is asked to clarify
his reason, he explains it in brief:

“Right on this webpage of this lovely Blog, I’ve been shooting these arrows of “Thank You, Thank You” to my great English teachers Jeff,
Warren, and Lucy for their great work ,” he continues, “But I wonder if my “Thank-You” arrows go straight to my teachers or go somewhere else?!”
“And I’ve also been breathing out these “praising” words about my great English teachers into the air this day or that day or so, in other words,
I’ve been singing my teachers’ praises, but I’m wondering if they (praising words) reach where I want them to or they’ve just disappeared into the air or else, else …??
“Well, some beautiful day in the future, can I find them again in my teachers’ hearts? Or in an oak, or somewhere else, I wonder? Who know(s)??”
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Just trying to praise my English teachers, Jeff, Warren and Lucy…. while practising my writing skill, of course ….
And thanks for reading my gibberish,

Myo ko ko

P.S
The above story is not real, I just made it up. In fact, this note is written based on a poem that I had to study while I was at grade school.
If someone here would love to know the poem, google it by using these words “The poem, The arrow and The song.”
And I want my great teachers and my ESL friends here to know that I enjoy reading every blog posts and everyone’s comments here
even though I can’t drop my comments here on this blog lately. Hope you all understand me. Thanks again.

It is nice to see we are all on the same page. We are aiming for a better ability to speak English. 

Guys, 
I have done my fair share of English study. They key to a better English  is listening.

It goes wothout saying that Eslpod is helping us in several important fronts like speaking ,writing ,comprehension, punctuation and so on. It is all good!
But , I believe I speak for everybody if I say we are all here to comprehend  and eventually speak perfect English. In doing so ,we should just keep on listening.
Spend most of your study time listening. 
Like a newly born kid for the firs one year or two they just listen; it is all they do.
6 years ago ,when I started in on listening to Jeff. I had no major problems in any area of English. You know what I needed ,though. I needed listening to a well-read ,educated English speakers; ideally English professors. That is all I needed ,still after 6 years constant listening , I feel the need to listen more and more.
Listening is the key to success.
Never ever understimate the power of listening in learning any new languages.

Back then before my initiation with Jeff and his gang:)) ,I was simply an English enthusiast whose dream was to speak fluently and confidently . 

To that end, I turned up every stone yet no success untill I was introduced to Eslpod out of fluke. Now ,here I am ,all fluent.
I think in  English ,I dream in English and it all happened to me through a miracle-that is,”Eslpod.”

Jeff saved me a ton of money and a a lot of time. 

Keep up with the listening folks,and you will thank me later.