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Thank you su much for the helpful tips =)

Wednesday, October 29th 2008

Are you really married, James???

Just, you are so young! :) Cool :)

Anyway, thanks for the tactic! It is really smart! I will do it personally!

Thanks again for the help and such a beneficial site!

I wish the thing which will never miss on your face be your smile! :)

Monday, November 3rd 2008

Azifri, thank you for the compliment!

Chidem, you are very kind… I look forward to smiling for you in the future, but don’t be shy — come out and chat with us on the forum as well.

— James

Saturday, November 8th 2008

Hi James,
It help me a lot, I am practicing for present the Toelf, I have practice with the toelf guide, but my score has not been as good as I want. I will appreciate your advice.

Kind regards

Wednesday, November 26th 2008

    Hi Maria,

    You did not tell me exactly what you are having problems with, so I can’t give you the precise advice you are looking for.

    If you can let me know what you are having difficulty with, I can give you some advice.

    Rebecca, who is also on the site, teaches TOEFL. She may be able to help you. Drop her a note!

    Sunday, January 11th 2009Reply to this comment

      Can you help me pls about how can i keep the words in my mind and its pronunciation? cause its seems hard to me.

      Sunday, March 7th 2010

Thank you James. I really enjoy your lesson. I’m studying english now but I have a trouble with english speaking . please tell me how can I improve my english speaking. I would like to chat with you on the forum but I don’t know how to chat with you

Tuesday, December 16th 2008

    Hi Friendship,

    Just go to the forum and leave your questions and I’ll be happy to get back to you and answer them.

    James

    Wednesday, January 14th 2009Reply to this comment

Cool! Im gonna try it out! Thank you so much ^^

Monday, January 5th 2009

Hi James

I am glad to find something good regarding writing in your video, i am preparing for IELTS exam, i would be really greatful to you if you please guide me or could suggest something practicing material for ‘Writing’ part of IELTS.

Thanks & Regards
Usman Butt

Monday, January 12th 2009

    Hi Usman Butt,

    Check back and watch the video on writing the five-paragraph essay.

    James

    Wednesday, January 14th 2009Reply to this comment

      I am from yemen and I am studing english (begginer)and I have problem in speaking. What can I do to improve my speaking ?

      Thursday, April 8th 2010

Hi James

I am new student.I am preparing for IELTS exam.My exam will be next week,actually I have a big problem with reading I cann’t do it very well so what should I do?

Sunday, February 1st 2009

thank you very much James you are doing a great by helping people to understand English well . my question is, how you can help me for my reading skill ,because i can not read quickly.looking forward to getting your reply.

Monday, February 2nd 2009

hi Rebecca, hi James

It’s my first in this website then I want to thanks you for good job. I sure that your advices will help a lot. Sorry for my bad English,… I’m sure that in this way I could improve my English.
Thank you so much

Monday, February 2nd 2009

Hi James I´m Diego, I´m new in this web site…. thanks for your advice about the reading comprehension but I have another doubt and it is about may and might, please help me.

bye

Wednesday, February 4th 2009

Hi James.,

I am sivarajan.V from India, I am new to this forum, yesterday i saw some of your videos am very much impressed, i need your help to improve my speaking axcent, can you able to give some steps to improve my speaking axcent

Thank you.,

Friday, February 13th 2009

hi! this is the second time i visit this website. it’s very useful. thanks lot. however it’s just focus on some points in grammar. can u make deeper fields in speaking and listening?
i think it’s hot for any student who learn E as second language

Friday, February 13th 2009

This place is awesome. I’m really impressed. I have laughed so much with the BATMAN lesson, I found it very interested and fun, no so many teachers dare to do it. Thanks very much for your dedication.

Saturday, February 21st 2009

hi james how r u doin? 2 night

Thursday, March 5th 2009

hi james its my firs time in here i have a problem in speaking can you tel me the easy way to know

Thursday, March 5th 2009

Hi, thanks for the lesson
Should I do the same thing either reading an english book with more than 80 pages for example or just to small articles?

Thursday, March 12th 2009

Hi James,

I need some tips from you to improve my English as i am preparing for IELTS.

Here are my weakpoints..
1) While speaking i will be getting breaks & Gaps in the words….and it makes for the people wo are listening to me makes to understand a little bit difficult.

2) While reading i am not aware of the meanings for many of the words ( I will your video on this as u said to do read the before & after words and try to understand the meaning of the word which is not known,) Any other ways u have to improve.

Please suggest your advice for my 2 points.

ok then Thanks ….. for the Videos…bye for now.

Friday, March 13th 2009

hi Jame ! my name is Thuan I’m frome Vietnam , this is second time in this website. I want too say thank you . You are good teacher and how I get another lesson
thank you so much for helpful

Monday, March 23rd 2009

You are so nice

Tuesday, March 24th 2009

hi Jame.. Thanks for providing such a information to all the needed people including me. I want to share my problem with you. I am not good in reading, writing, listing as well as in speaking. But I want to improve myself in all fields that why I have seen few of your vedios today. I am not able to understand about pause that are required during , . ? ! etc. & donot know anything about this during reading & speaking. I don’t know difference between high tone & low tone that is required to express your feeling in more natural way. I don’t know which word need to speak slowly & which one more loudly. I believe these all are not only my problems some other persons may be also facing the same problem. Can you give me some suggestions to improve myself. And can you help me in any way.

Thanks once again Jame.

Monday, April 6th 2009

Hi James

I already took the TOEFL test and my score is not so good, I thing is not difficult but it is so long text and you don’t have time to understand everything or summarize. Now I saw your class and I will make what you said , read more than one time and after you understand better and with pratice after I will read quicky .
Thanks for the leasson .

Tuesday, April 14th 2009

thanks sir james its so nice to this site

Sunday, April 26th 2009

I already took the TOEFL test and my score is not so good, I thing is not difficult but it is so long text and you don’t have time to understand everything or summarize. Now I saw your class and I will make what you said , read more than one time and after you understand better and with pratice after I will read quicky .
Thanks for the leasson thanks sir james its so nice to this site

Monday, April 27th 2009

James,
I am trying to find out how to leave a comment for you in your box when is not related to the lesson, please help me out.

Thank you
Maxy

Sunday, May 3rd 2009

Hi again james,
It would be much practical if you had an example for us. People learn through examples. You should had a small article to demonstrate your lesson.
Thank you
Maxy

Sunday, May 3rd 2009

Your videos are really helping…thank you so much!!!

Monday, May 11th 2009

Thank you James, I do believe your video will make me more understand reading comprehension.

Friday, May 15th 2009

Hi!

Let me say that your videos are great. I have been trying learning English from 14 years ago, jajaja!

I can read or understand something like 70% (I think!) of English language, but when I have to write or speack in English, I am a disaster.

Bye.

Wednesday, May 20th 2009

Hi, I’ve been out of school for 6 year and now I just stated taking a Master’s degree class. Its a lot of reading and some in boring. How can I read the boring books and make the knowlege stay with me?

Wednesday, May 27th 2009

thank you so much james for this lesson i’m new in this forum my native language is not english. and i need realy to improve my english,my english pronunciation,vocabulary and all things about english, i hope that i dont made any mistakes in this paragraph, please correct it to me.
think you very much

Saturday, May 30th 2009

Thanx so much James!

Monday, June 1st 2009

hello mr james this is baktash i realy like to be your student i like your teaching and i have aproblem in my listening will you help me thank you

Saturday, June 13th 2009

Hey James
That was an interesting video but i don’t think it fits my real comperhension problem. I hesitate to read huge text because im afraid that i won’t understand it. Then when i start reading it it makes no sense to me. But smaller text with similar words im fine with. I’ve had this annoying habit since i started school. Any solutions to this??

Monday, June 15th 2009

thanks you james!
you re surely making good job!
i m in turkey and trying to pass toefl paper based,but i did not find any information about structure part of it.
can you help me,
see you,thanks a lot!

Tuesday, June 16th 2009

thanks James! I like this website…
But, Please…can u give me some ideas to do Toeic…
I have to do more than 600 and I have some problems about listening.
Toeic has many traps and I always fall down…Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease…..help me!

Friday, June 19th 2009

hi james,
i have a seriose problem. i have to do ilts exam the next month,but i haven’t got any idea how to do it. i’m good at grammer and listening,but not so good at reading and speaking.i’d like to ask you for giving us more lessons about speaking skills and how i can answer reading questions when i can’t understand the whole articl.finally you’re the best

Wednesday, June 24th 2009

hello james .
i m from california and i am preparing for Gmat.i visited this site via youtube and i find it very useful in preparing for my test .but can u plzzzzzzzz provide me some more lessons on reading comprehension with the help of some examples.
anyways ur way of teaching is fantastic.i appreciate u .

Monday, June 29th 2009

HI JAMES IT IS SO GOOD TO SEE YOU EXPLAINING THIS TACTICS FOR US……AND I AM FOND OF YOUR TEACHING….I HAVE GONE THROUGH A LOT OF LISTENING CLASSES TAUGHT BY YOU…..

THANKS AND REGARDS,
Satish..

Saturday, July 4th 2009

Hi james
I saw your so many videos. They all are really awesome. Your explanation is really funtastic, but in this video you didn’t explain with putting any example, so I didn’t understand properly. Actually I am preparing for TOEFL. I think there is no more time of reading so many paragraphs many times because of the time limit, so in this situation what should I do for understanding axactly? Please reply me. Thanks

Saturday, July 4th 2009

    I’m Brasilian and when I saw James explain how to do to understand what we read, I realise that we have to find a logic, it is the way to understand a text
    actually, werever you are, or language you speak, you have to think in the logic way.
    Did you undertand me?
    see you.

    Wednesday, August 19th 2009Reply to this comment

hi james

can you please tell how do to do quiz on this website
thanks
can’t find it
and your a good teacher

Monday, July 6th 2009

    Hi hamidj, James hasn’t added quizzes for his lessons yet, but you will find them for most of the lessons of the other teachers on the site. You should see the quiz just below each of the lessons, above the comments.

    Monday, July 6th 2009Reply to this comment

Dear james,
Thanks a lot sir Actually the big problem for me in ielts preparation is reading. and now i am following this method i hope it will improve my skill or reading.if u james any other best tips for me so please post it me.
Best wishes
Muhammad Tayyib

Sunday, July 19th 2009

hi james i’d like u to upload some samples on ielts exams it’s really gonna be helpful thank u
u’re really doing something

Sunday, July 19th 2009

This site is really helpful for the poor people. I have problem reading paragraphs as I dont know to follow the punctuation . Can you people please send some to my mail id kalyanf1@gmail.com. I am indian and I liked the tutors in this engvid.com

Friday, July 24th 2009

Hi James,

This site is really helpful for the poor people. I have problem reading paragraphs as I dont know to follow the punctuation . Can you people please send some to my mail id kalyanf1@gmail.com. I am indian and I liked the tutors in this engvid.com

Friday, July 24th 2009

Hi James, I am Neto from Brazil and I need your help, please. I am here in Canada (Vancouver) studying english…I can write, I can understand all your classes, but why I need to think in Portuguese before to speak in English??? I am afraid, because I will start working in October here in Canada and I am not comfortable about my speaking skills….help me please.
Love your classes, thank you very much my friend.

Friday, July 24th 2009

Bugagaga

Monday, July 27th 2009

Wow it’s really helpfull

thanks my teacher I really haven’t seen a lesson like your lesson before
it’s not a compliment I’m honest I understand them easily

I have a suggestion

I think it better to allow students downloading the lessons

I would like to download them but I’m not allowed to

thanks teacher again
waiting for more

Monday, July 27th 2009

My 9yo son has difficulty reading and comprehension, so thank-you so much for this – we are going to try the technique out.

A teacher many years ago gave me this tip :

Most of what a paragraph is trying to say is in the opening sentence. The closing sentence usually summarises what the paragraph has said. So, for the purposes of getting through (a lot of) reading he advised
1. read the first sentence
2. read the last sentence
3. If you need more information or understanding then read the whole of the paragraph. Doing 1 and 2 has given you the context and a pointer as to what the writer is trying to get across and usually contains supporting arguments or facts.

Tuesday, July 28th 2009

i have a seriose problem in my life i have been out of school for 6 years now , i want go back to school becose without school your are finish please i need your help my problem is i cant read perfect some prounciation is very hard for me to read and understand. how can i improve my english speaking, read and understanding without education your finish in this world where can i start please i need your help. thank you very much.

Thursday, July 30th 2009

hey; the guys got very good questions here… why you don’t answer them? I’d like to read some answers from you… paz…

Thursday, August 6th 2009

hi im afreen just joined it i wanted to iknw if u could send some test of toefl reding on my id it would b a gr8 help

Monday, August 10th 2009

Really good job james

Sunday, August 16th 2009

Thanks it’s going to help me a lot!!!!

Saturday, August 22nd 2009

thank you james for your lessons

Sunday, August 30th 2009

you are really good teacher . your teaching it was so useful to me thanks alot

Wednesday, September 2nd 2009

thanks james
i came across with this page today and it`s really cool
keep this fantastic work on
have a good one..

Thursday, September 3rd 2009

Thanks for your useful lesson…Now I’m learning IELTS course…I think my reading skill is not good. I suppose I can’t using your lesson to apply my reading test, so can you give me some advices for reading skill of IELTS?
Thanks you so much! best wishes for you! :)

Sunday, September 27th 2009

so if i want to read a 600 page book i have to read it 3 times to understand it? i think this is wrong..

Saturday, October 24th 2009

Hi all,
First of all thx for the web page,i just wonder why do u use youtube for videos,i see u dont take money from members,bbut as soon as u built a web page like this,video adding shouldnt be a big problem.Kindly requesting you to use another video share platform as youtube is banned in turkey for about 2 years.I can watch lessons as i use university based internet,But other people can’t.

best regards…

Sunday, October 25th 2009

    It’s really too bad that Turkey and other places like China and Iran have banned YouTube, since there are so many great, educational videos on the site. Unfortunately, we would have to charge money to access engVid if we hosted the videos ourselves. As for other platforms, they don’t have nearly as many users. We need the most possible people to see the lessons, so right now YouTube is the best option, though that may change in the future.

    Sunday, October 25th 2009Reply to this comment

Hi sir,

thank you so much for your lesson, it’s really useful for me!!!

and now, I have a small question..that I don’t know when we use ” may have” or just “might have”, and when we just use “may” and “might” to suitable witth? and could you please lecture exactly the mean of them when we use?

thanks and regards,
Ánh

Monday, November 2nd 2009

Hi James,
I find very difficult to read english. you see, If there is any complex or compound sentence to be read I can’t understand, when I read 1st time. Another thing is while we are talking we use conjunction to speak so I have some problem in conjunction part too . How to resolve this problem? If you could help me I would be happy.

Thanks
Madhu

Friday, November 6th 2009

Hi James, I got problems with cloze in EILTS, how can i improve this skill, any advice for me?

Sunday, November 22nd 2009

nice video James ;)

Saturday, December 5th 2009

Hi ! James
i like study english so much but my english very bad…please help me!
Thanks you for your lesson

Tuesday, December 15th 2009

i am vietnamese.

Tuesday, December 15th 2009

hi James thank you for the lessons im from algeria..my problem is i understand english very well while listenning and i want to express my self in a very good way(pronunciation and vocabulary)….and is it possible to speak as a native??

Sunday, January 10th 2010

i want to see vedio classes of sir james. But its not be open pleaz tell me other sit or methed of open the vedio clips of clsses of sir james.thanks.my mail id is

cute_gull@hotmail.com

Thursday, January 14th 2010

hello, thanks for the tips
i have a question
…is it better to read books improve my reading
or is it better to read many news articles.. ….
be waiting for response

Wednesday, January 20th 2010

THANKS A LOT!
This is what english lessons should be.

Thursday, January 21st 2010

hi,hope u f9.Very helpful video i wl apply ur methood of undrstanding coprehension.Thank U Kindly

Friday, January 22nd 2010

hi! I’ve been studying English for about 8 years….i am at the proficiency level…i always had and i still have a difficulty to read passages and then answer the following questions although i past my lower examination with high pass…..what can i do to improve it/??

Saturday, February 6th 2010

thank you so much james

Thursday, February 18th 2010

thanks James, this leson is very useful for me!

Monday, March 8th 2010

thanks for your lesson. the steps what you said are very useful for me to practice Reading part for my next TOEFL iBT exam. But, my problem is that I don’t know how to summarize each paragraph effectively. May you help me to solve it?
once again, thank you very much ^^

Saturday, March 13th 2010

Hi James,
your lessons are really helpful and fun, but there is no lesson about listing, speaking and most important sub-test as for me writing.

Hope you’ll make more video about IELTS.
Thank you so much, from Ukraine :)

Friday, March 19th 2010

thanks so much

Saturday, March 20th 2010

Dear sir,

Hello, my name is Ronald Hsu, I am 20 who r studying in Hong Kong City University associate degree. I do not know the reasons why I join the Ielts examination two times, but I still cannot obtain a score over 6.5. the highest one only got band 6.0. After watched your English video teaching, I got to learn a lots, but may I got to know and learn more about others’ part of the Ielts examination. Because my mother language is Cantonese rather than English. And I think that my grammar is my main difficulty for coping with the Ielts examination. Perhaps I wanna ask you one question rite here, how could I read the whole article as soon as possible during the Ielts examination. Because I think that it is impossible to read three times in 1 part during the Ielts reading test.

Saturday, March 20th 2010

Hello James! Its a good lesson. Thank you. It helps me. Anyway James, I don’t know how to differenciate between:-

1) I watched it
2) I was watching it
3) I have watched it
4) i have been watching it
5) I had been watching it
6) I had watched it

Can you help me with this. Im malay.

Tuesday, March 23rd 2010

Thanks a lot. Really, you are amazing.

Thursday, March 25th 2010

Hey james thank you very much for your teaching skill. And most of the time i use to read the newspapers without understanding the meaning and after that i use the dictionary to find the meaning for those words. You and this website is more helpful for us thanks

Tuesday, March 30th 2010

Ah ok, I’ll follow your advice, because when I read something I always stop when I find a word that I don´t know its meaning, you can imagine how much time I take the readings.

Thank, Friend.

Thursday, April 1st 2010

Hi I am Abdullah from Yemen

Thursday, April 8th 2010

Hi James it’s very usefull thanks. I’m preparing fom my TOEFL eaxms and I have problems with reading comprehension. I think it’s the most difficult than other sections.

Saturday, April 10th 2010

I lov your lesson ,,,,,,,and advice ths.

Sunday, April 11th 2010

Hi
thank you so much its very important things to improve my skills in reading .
i will try to do it and start from today.
im not good in reading and in a
IELTS exame im Always get 3.5 im so sad about that my score high in all parts except reading part =(
i need ur help pless ..
and thanx again

Tuesday, April 27th 2010

Hi James , you produced really awesome vid .
I think you mentioned something about forum when you replied Azifri ,can you tell which forum you talking about ?

Thursday, April 29th 2010

wow, it’s so interesting. Thanks so much for your tips.

Thursday, May 20th 2010

How could I go to the forum. Please help me if you don’t mind.
Thanks a lot

Monday, May 24th 2010

Hi Sir How are you, Sir tell me one think i want prepration IELTS PAPER EASY WAY TOO SUCCES MY PAPER.

Monday, May 24th 2010

HI THNKX

Wednesday, May 26th 2010

Thank you teacher. Hi I’m Marry from Korea. Teacher! I have some problem. For example, 1. I read many paper and book every day. But i can’t memorry all that words.
2. I can’t speak an English well. Because don’t have any practice, haven’t native speak Friend. Sorry made mistake some grammer. Good luck for your job. :-) Marry

Thursday, May 27th 2010

thank you very much James <

Sunday, May 30th 2010

excelentes videos , excelente profesor i love it

Monday, May 31st 2010

Hey Mr, James,
I’m Giwantha from Sri Lanka, But i live in UK. End of this month I’m going to do IELTS & I must get more then 6.5 to do ICT in a uni.I’m working hard on my reading part, But still I can’t score more then 25 out of 40
Can U please tell me what should I do….???

Thursday, June 10th 2010

Hi James!
I have a little wonder.
For long passage( about 3 pages), if I read it, read again, and read again. It take time to finish all i want to read from a part of a book. So, would you mind giving me advice for reading book, especially some academic books.
Thank you so much.

Thursday, June 24th 2010

James You are the best :) I really like Your lessons :)

Sunday, June 27th 2010

Hi james sir,
I wanna score more in speaking section of toefl , wat to do.Pls tel tips

Monday, June 28th 2010

thank u i wouid like to ask about how can i make a story short one thanks u are great byyyyyyyeeeeeeeee

Monday, June 28th 2010

hi sir i am new student. i am poor in speaking english any tips tell to me.

Tuesday, June 29th 2010

Hey James, I am going into the police academy and I need help reading, writing, and grammar, what books or were can i start..I would like some info…thanks so much

Friday, July 9th 2010

Thank a lot! your leasson very useful for me.
Can you give me some advice about speaking skill and writing skill?
Are you ok?
Thank you for anwsering !

Friday, July 9th 2010

i’m from Azerbaijan

Tuesday, July 13th 2010

I really like your lesson. Thank so much!

Friday, July 16th 2010

Ijames I really enjoy the class and at this time I’m study very hard for my new carrer and this tips really helps a lot.
Regards
Sal

Monday, July 19th 2010

thanks a lot, your jop is graet

Tuesday, July 20th 2010

hello , i really want to thank all who’s behind this great helpfull web site .

Saturday, July 24th 2010

Hello James Why you so serious in this lesson???? Thank You

Wednesday, July 28th 2010

cool steps. :D

Sunday, August 1st 2010

can u help me pleas becasue i have problem with english words plz help me if u can all the teacher in this website thankz all of u

Monday, August 2nd 2010

very useful

Tuesday, August 3rd 2010

nothing now

Tuesday, August 3rd 2010

you guys are great ! I am really glad i found this site. Comprehension is very hard for me so i am going to use your skills. I hope i can find other skills in the future. Your great !!!!!!!!!!!!n

Wednesday, August 25th 2010

You ain’t answering most of the questions been asked you…try to give a general answer to prevent duplication on questions…you’re doing a great job keep it up!

Sunday, August 29th 2010
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