A Few Things for you Guys…
1. First of all, a piece of news. The US police finally found the guys who committed the terrorist attacks at the Boston Marathon. These guys were brothers who were living in the states for 10 years. The more I think about it, the more horrible I realize it is. We talked about this in our latest VIP lesson. I can understand why many people are upset with how the US government is. But killing innocent people is certainly NOT the answer. An 8 year old boy died, as did a female Chinese student, as did another innocent white girl. Even if these terrorists hated the US government, this is obviously unacceptable. Sadly, it will be a step backwards in world peace. Why kill innocent people in any situation? It just creates more hate and more war. Sickening! I hope that someday, this type of thing can come to an end. I read and can understand the comments on my last blog post regarding this topic. I appreciate everyone who said something there. I guess I just really don’t understand what these fools were thinking. They hate the USA. Ok, fine, but their answer is to kill innocent people? For what purpose? This will just cause more hate and more violence in the world. Not less. This is definitely a step in the wrong direction. There are other ways to show disagreement with a government. If someone thinks the US government is too violent and selfish, is the answer to do the same thing to innocent Americans? I don’t think so. I’m afraid to see what will happen now. If you guys have any thoughts or comments, I’d love to read them.
2. VIP Lesson #200 is coming up this week. Awesome! Add and I have a special surprise for that. It should be sweet! Hint: Now would be a pretty smart time to get a VIP membership (In case you have been thinking about it. It’s getting insanely good in there…..)
3. LearnEnglish232 is off to a great start. Thanks so much to all you guys who have been commenting and enjoying the lessons. We’re putting up new ones every day, so getting in the habit of visiting that site once a day is a wonderful one. One question: Any ideas of how to make it more popular? Have any of you guys told your friends about it yet? What do they think? I’d love to know. Here is today’s lesson (complete with video AND written examples to really help)
Here is the lesson I just posted: Would love to hear your comments on all this:
Learn English Slang and Vocabulary
April 20th, 2013 at 8:46 pm
Hi..guys
i totally agree with your ideas about boston tradegy
why a lot of innocent people should be killed!!!
because only the way of solving their negative,
stupid emotional problems..
just i want to call them as a bunch of [cowards]!!
for ideas about boosting your works
how about create more shophistcated community forum for VIP members
where we could share a lot of ideas
thanks!! /////////// sung
April 21st, 2013 at 1:25 pm
I agree with you about Boston attack.
We know that politicians and bankers are not GOOD people.
They create tensions and problems. But it’s not a fault of ordinary people. They are innocent. They should not be killed because politicians make such and such decisions.
April 21st, 2013 at 3:18 pm
To make the things worse, this regretable incident will trigger more and more dificulties for tourists getting into the USA.
April 21st, 2013 at 4:31 pm
Hi guys!
I’m the one who suggested you to teach me the phrasal verbs before, remember?
I couldn’t visit here for a while, so I didn’t know about the whole new video things you made.
I watched them just a minute ago and now I must say that you guys are really AMAZING!
I’m kind of surprised. You seems like you can read my mind. The videos you made are exactly what I’ve wanted!
It’s unbelievably helpful for me especially the phrasal verb part. I appreciate it so much! keep up the good work please!
And here’s another thing that I want to learn.
It would be helpful if you give me some idea about grammars especially about tense. Sometimes It’s really confusing and I don’t know what they use it for.
For example, here’s a sentence. “many new students have arrived for the new term.” When I read this, I actually have no idea why they say like this, not just say like “many new students arrived for the new term”.
What difference are they trying to make from the second one?
These kinds of questions related in tense are always come up in my mind. So I would like you to teach me those kind of things and maybe you could show us some common conversation spoken in real life using it. Of course It doesn’t need to be typical grammar lesson. It would be enough to just give me some information about which situation do you use it in and what kind of idea you have in your mind when you use it. (because I totally agree with your thinking on grammar)
I love your new lectures,again
It’s brilliant!
It’s obvious that it’ll make me speak much better.
Examples are very useful as well. You made them easy to understand.
If you get more contents on it, you can organize them
and after that, more people will notice this amazing website. I believe so.
I really want to say thank you! I’ll keep studying English with you guys:)
April 21st, 2013 at 6:29 pm
Hey guys,
I agree with you 100%
the brothers who killed innocent people came to USA and benefited all the facilities which Us offered them including university scholarship …and instead of being thankful for all of opportunities they had , killed people!!
April 21st, 2013 at 7:05 pm
The two brothers are criminal
April 21st, 2013 at 10:55 pm
It’ll be awesome if you guys can invite a female instructor to give a lecture once a while.
Btw, the video is wonderful idea. I love it and will try to visit every day.
April 21st, 2013 at 10:57 pm
So, USA most of the time crossed the line but I disagree with killing innocent people. I think if anyone disagree with the politics of USA, he or she should find a reasonable way to voice. By killing and spilling the blood of the sinless and innocent people not only they can’t get close to their target but also cause more hate and violence in the world. I am afraid of triggering the WORLD WAR III………………
April 22nd, 2013 at 3:47 am
hi. my guestion is why u think that they had problem with government , maybe they tend to kill some certain people, for example a friend or a master or a neighbor . whats u r information base ? i think if they had problem with government , they just kill one of the officals in that state.
April 22nd, 2013 at 5:42 am
Mojtaba, i can’t agree with you because killing a politicial is much more difficult than hurting people who don’t hide in armoured car. That’s is a horrible “logic” of that criminals. But it’s still interesting if they gave some comments on this, Andrew, Add?
in Russia the same accdident took place few years ago, in subway. That was horrible, so many people were killed, and i also could be there in that time.
PS thank you Andy and Add for your excellent work!
April 22nd, 2013 at 7:37 am
Hi
i don’t think who do this is normal person.killing people for any reason is horrible thing.i think the person who did this has problem in his personality definitely his is not normal. did he think about the people who died in the studied thing he did and the pain he brought for their family. i hope he does not find the peace in his life and straggle all his life until he die.
April 22nd, 2013 at 10:46 am
hi guys,i havent made any comments on your website yet,so at first i’ve got to say a thanks for your great site!
in fact im a iranian guy, who lives in iran at the moment, thought totally disagree with iran and other Islamic countries policy against the u.s nd other countries.a lot of us dont like to be a threat for those people that just live like each one of us,wherever they wanna be! we all wanna live in peace but…. .and im sure of that if you hear the real voice of the countries that are known as terrorism supports,their people have the same thoughts.
that’s the filthy policy of governments have made such as these horrible incident.
i’d like saying that our situation will go better but ti doesnt seem at all.
big fan
April 23rd, 2013 at 6:10 pm
hi guys,i think it is not fair to kill innocent people because of the contract with government .it is so scary life with violence and cruel .why some people should die because of disagreement with government.i really hope one day all the people around world live in a peace.
April 26th, 2013 at 9:13 pm
hi, guys
i totally agree with you. nowadays i am really pessimist about the world. we hear bad news consistently and these news make me pessimist. i think that greed and selfishness make people cruel, they don’t think other people’s rights…. and i hate this kind of people.
( guys thank you for your effort to make us learn useful things about english, i try to keep on reading your blogs and watching videos and i really like them)
October 14th, 2014 at 5:06 pm
Killing innocent people for sure is not the way any problems should be solved. It only increases spiral of violence and people who are behind terrorists attacks make themselves look like they are the ones who need to be blamed for the conflict they are involved, even though they did not necessarily start it. Talking about spiral of violence it seems like terrorism, extremism etc. never comes to an end. Take all US interventions in Far East. There were and are so many innocent victims of these interventions, orphans that the only thing they want to do is to avenge the death of their loved ones. Every time innocent people die becasue of terrorist attack we should blame not only the terrorists, we should also ask ourselves what make these people to go so far. Needles to say that because of politics of most powerful governements hundreds, thousands of people die every day not necessarily because of terrorist attacks but becasue of the weapon they sold to countries involved in military conflict, because of the hunger. These are things that to some extent stopped to make any impressions on us compared to terrorist attacks that take place in our “backyard”. It is sad bu it is true.