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Friday, 30 March 2007

Good Bye Everyone!

Hello to Lidia and all of our World Service readers,

First of all, I must say a huge thank you to Lidia for blogging so regularly. I know that you have found her blogs as interesting as I have, and she has told us a lot about her life, her dreams and her experience of learning English. I can safely say that her English has improved while she has been blogging: her sentence structure is better and she uses a wider vocabulary. I noticed several adverbs (certainly, definitely, fortunately) used to start sentences in the last couple of blogs! And the last blog was absolutely great! There were one or two small errors, but a very big improvement since the beginning of March! Superb work! Well done. I hope you will continue to work on your English because you have made such good progress, and if you continue at this rate, who knows what you could achieve? It’s a hard task to blog every week when you are busy with a job, and I really appreciate the effort Lidia made to stay in touch with all of us. Thank you again, it’s been great working with you!

Now, to everyone else who reads the blogs and sends in comments I must also say thank you for all of your efforts. I do read all of the comments, and I feel so sorry that I can’t send individual replies to you, because your comments are so animated and interesting. To tell you the truth, I hope this is not really good bye, because I would so much like to do this teacher blog again! I’ve enjoyed interacting with everyone from so many different countries. It’s been such a privilege to meet all of you, and learn about your lives. Hopefully I’ll be able to catch up with all of you again!

The last thing I have to say is that for the time being, this will be my last blog. I’m going on holiday tomorrow with my family to Mallorca in Spain, and I won’t be able to blog again. I’m looking forward to relaxing for about ten days…eating some nice seafood and walking on the beach… I’m not sure if it will be warm enough to swim in the sea…I guess my kids won’t mind trying it out though!

I wish everyone success and happiness in both your private and professional lives; take care until the next time we meet!

Lots of love and best wishes to everyone,

Samantha.

USEFUL WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS

improvement (noun)
better than before

appreciate something (verb)
feel grateful / thankful for

stay in touch (phrase)
keep in contact with someone

animated (adjective)
lively

privilege (noun)
advantage / special status

Myself, Alex and Thomas in Barcelona last summer.

Comments

Thank you so much for your great work you have done with us. I'm very certain that during your period many of us have made significant progress. I hope next time we'll be able to communicate and express our thoughts more clearly. From my side I have to admit that I had very nice time learning English in your company. All the best for you and your whole family! Robert

Hello and good bye Samantha! I guess it´ll be the last time that I going to write this words to you. You are a very kind teacher and help not only me but I think all the blog´s readers to improve our English. Happy holidays! Have a lot of fun! I wish you good luck in your new projects. All the best for you! Ana Paula.

Hello Samantha , U are really a great english teacher. I have found and understood what you advised for learning English since I browsed it each day though, I am very tired after busy working day. Now , I just DO it as sportsman self -discipline as u mentioned . Thank you very much Tom

Hello Samantha , the time has come to say goodbye , sad to see you go, all the best for the future. You were a real inspiration to me. Although I don't comment much, but me and the whole readers' community will always remember you. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas for so long. I, like many others appreciate it. I can only hope that you make a return to the blogosphere at some point in the not-so-distant future! Samantha make sure that we are going to do our best to go on learning English , but for now and from me goodbye , have a nice journey . PS you and your children look very cute in the photo below .

It was a real pleasure to meet you, teacher Samantha, and I'm really going to miss hearing from you. I would like to thank you for the very useful blogs. You have shared your experiences and knowledges with us here with an open heart, altruistic, enthusiastic, profesional mode. A huge thank you. I'm keen to hear from you again soon, just let us know when you come back. Have a wonderful holiday! The very best wishes to you and your family!

Hi Samantha, I hope you have read my last message with a million thanks! A picture with you and kids are beautiful!! Wish you had a great vacation in Spain! And come back to your bbc students! I will miss you.

hi samantha..i just wanted to say that im realy happy to knew your blog.it was a great experience and i learned lots of new words and usefull expresions during a short time i've been with you .. i hopethat you have a good holiday with your family and specially your two cute child best wishes bye

Hello Samantha. In this sunny saturday afternoon I can only say that I am grateful to be given the chance to learn with you. I wanted to apologise if I have written something not so good for you. If at first I was thinking I needed just to learn english on the BBC Learning English, I've changed my mind and I think I've been learning some good manners with you. Thank you for that. You are a nice teacher and sometimes I think you are clairvoyant because you write exactly what I am needing to read at the moment. The communication is literally so good on this website that we are eventualy using telepathy here. If you are thinking to be the teacher again, I am your potential reader. Have a nice holiday in Spain and remember to read our comments. So as we continue in this journey, let's wait for the next teacher and student. A big kiss ( the size of the World) for you, your so beautiful family and all the eager learners from here!

Hi, Samantha. it's so sad that we have to say good bye to you. I feel I'm so lucky to find this blog and to have been one of your students for a while. I'd like to take your class in England directly someday. Have a wonderful trip with your family. I hope good memories and pictures like your lovely picture on the last post will be added on the trip. Thank you. All the best.

Hello Samantha, it's time to say good bye. Thanks for all of your kindly works. We all make a great improvement with your help. Enjoy your holiday! Hope to see you again.

Samantha, I will miss you, darling. Your blog was gorgeous. Good vacations. Best wishes!

to Samantha I deeply thanks you for your teaching. You always cares us how to improve our english well and make many excerise apart from the official student blogger. I acquire from you very much. I hope you can teach me again in the future All the best marco

Although I am not a member of this blog I wanted to comment. This blog is useful improving my English. I am feeling better whenever I understand writings. I think the world is a circle that all of different persons live in it. It isn't important wherever we born or what nations we are. Do you agree with me?

Lovely to see the most sweetest picture.I am glad to hear that you and your family will go on holiday in spain,which is so wonderful i think.Hope you enjoy your time with all your beloved ones.Thank you again to blog on this site no matter how busy you are.

Thanks so much for your blogs. I have read all of them. I have been reading the blogs of yours and your fellow teachers for about half a year and I think it is a convenient way to learn and improve your English. It is sad you are not with us, at least for the time being, but I am sure the April's blogs will be very inreteresting, too. I am looking forward to them. Have a nice holiday because there's nothing like a holiday.

Hi,Samantha I do not really want to say "goodbye "to you because I have been a great time with your letters.I feel like you are one of my friends, who can share my daily life,at ease even though l haven't met or seen you.I wish I had written more comments to you.The time was too short to realise that it had been such a previlege to have you here.I wish you and your family good luck and have a great holiday.so long !!!hyoshil

Hi Samantha You're a prefect teacher. Actually, i hope you can continue to teach us english. Thanks so much. All the best, Marco

Hello again , the weather in Thailand is really hot today. After posing blog in two months ago in the fact that I had rather not so much times for posing comment or telling sorts of adventure storys . That is because I am focus on an intrigue course works at KhonKaen Brewery < Beer factory > Actually , that splendid work look intricate and interesting job. Frankly,I found that I able to get genus of privilege of works and some experience in which I never face before . For instance solving pile of works in field of waste water treatment ,finding a new method to optimize water system ,or even organizing time myself . That means it is a self-discipline . By the way after work I hang around with friends and look for gramma books in the book stores for my liesure time . These books are interesting and attracting me to read in order to practise gramma structure. Unfortunately, I just read a bit gramma for every day as your suggest . And the first time I wish I efforted to remember all grammar so that well structures in which I am writting skill but when the time is passing . I find that I cannot memorize all them. The last but not least , a long time ago I really look up to you as a good teacher and vigorous posing blog . God bless you. Wisarut ...

Hi Alex, This is laxman from india.i am 23yrs old.i did my graduation last year from delhi university.Although in india there are lots of people who speaks engilsh,my english is not good enough.while speaking i do lots of errors due to the lack of confidence level.i have been reading your blogs since last week and i found it really intresting way to improve the langauge skills.I would like to join your group.

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