Türkan Ergör, Sociologist, Philosopher, Writer, Poet, Art Photography Model. Türkan Ergör was born 19 March 1975 in the city of Çanakkale, Türkiye. She was selected International “Best Poet 2020”. She was selected International “Best Poet, Author/Writer 2021”. She was selected International “Best Poet, Writer/Author 2022”. She was awarded the FIRST PRIZE FOR THE OUTSTANDING AUTHOR IN 2022. She was awarded the 2023 “Zheng Nian Cup” “National Literary First Prize” by Beijing Awareness Literature Museum. She was awarded the “Certificate of Honor and Appreciation” and “Crimean Badge” by İSMAİL GASPRİNSKİY SCIENCE AND ART ACADEMY. She was awarded the “14k Gold Pen Award” by ESCRITORES SIN FRONTERAS ORGANIZACIÓN INTERNACIONAL.
Innocent people have possessions, honor, quiet shelter.
Lean not to fight, who does not indulge in conflict.
Love to be yourself, happy stage.
Living in good education and culture leads to life.
At the movement of these people, the evil people in dams roar,
Innocent people’s lives are destroyed by fear.
A wicked man knows better – does not know the answer, he will suffer torture. Many people are busy creating pressure with this thought.
Can’t answer in time, hides wrong doing because of honor,
With a pain in the chest, no word torturer wanders around,
He has no people, turns, administration.
Where does he remove his sorrow!
There is only cursing,
Why will you leave the one who did the damage & loss,
As a result of the curse, he should understand the damage & loss is.
Day and night the curse in the mind, be the revenge of the mind.
India, Date: 01.02.2026
Amb. Dr. Priyanka Neogi is from Coochbehar. She is an administrative controller of United Nations’ PAF, a librarian, a CEO of Lio Messi International Property & Land Consultancy, international literacy worker, sports & peace promoter, dancer, singer, reciter, live telecaster, writer, editor, researcher, literary journalist, host, beauty queen, international co-ordinator of the Vijay Mission of Community Welfare Foundation of India.
I left behind everything that didn’t weigh on my soul,
the paths that led nowhere;
my heart, once a calm garden,
is now a sea searching for its wide channel.
I live to write what silence holds,
to carry my words to distant lands;
for my children, who are light in my wanderings,
for my grandchildren, seeds of new days.
I am no longer the same one who believed in castles,
who expected miracles with every sunrise;
now my life is a half-open book,
where only what the heart has learned matters.
GRACIELA NOEMI VILLAVERDE is a writer and poet from Concepción del Uruguay (Entre Rios) Argentina, based in Buenos Aires She graduated in letters and is the author of seven books of poetry, awarded several times worldwide. She works as the World Manager of Educational and Social Projects of the Hispanic World Union of Writers and is the UHE World Honorary President of the same institution’s Activa de la Sade, Argentine Society of Writers. She is the Commissioner of Honor in the executive cabinet in the Educational and Social Relations Division of the UNACCC South America – Argentina Chapter.
Maja Milojković was born in Zaječar and divides her life between Serbia and Denmark. In Serbia, she serves as the deputy editor-in-chief at the publishing house Sfairos in Belgrade. She is also the founder and vice president of the Rtanj and Mesečev Poets’ Circle, which counts 800 members, and the editor-in-chief of the international e-magazine Area Felix, a bilingual Serbian-English publication. She writes literary reviews, and as a poet, she is represented in numerous domestic and international literary magazines, anthologies, and electronic media. Some of her poems are also available on the YouTube platform. Maja Milojković has won many international awards. She is an active member of various associations and organizations advocating for peace in the world, animal protection, and the fight against racism. She is the author of two books: Mesečev krug (Moon Circle) and Drveće Želje (Trees of Desire). She is one of the founders of the first mixed-gender club Area Felix from Zaječar, Serbia, and is currently a member of the same club. She is a member of the literary club Zlatno Pero from Knjaževac, and the association of writers and artists Gorski Vidici from Podgorica, Montenegro.
The world is moving through a restless time. People— instead of being friends— have turned into each other’s fiercest enemies.
Day and night obsessed with killing, violation, or harm we chase one another in endless hostility
Yet, many stars still bloom in the dark— but they are confined indoors. They have no power to light the open sky.
Their glow dies quietly imprisoned behind the threshold.
Meanwhile, the wicked roam the earth unchecked. Beasts wear the sacred threads of saints and make a mockery of virtue.
In this aggressive competition more and more lives are erased.
We were meant to extend a hand of friendship— yet like that old mariner, we have all become ideal-less killers of the albatross.
So much murder, so much cruelty, so much human tyranny that the eyes grow tired and close. The inner world of thought begins to shrink.
How long do we even stay on this earth?!
And still— so much of this? Still?
Md. Mahbubul Alam is from Bangladesh. His writer name is Mahbub John in Bangladesh. He is a Senior Teacher (English) of Harimohan Government High School, Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh. Chapainawabganj is a district town of Bangladesh. He is an MA in English Literature from Rajshahi College under National University. He has published three books of poems in Bangla. He writes mainly poems but other branches of literature such as prose, article, essay etc. also have been published in national and local newspapers, magazines, little magazines. He has achieved three times the Best Teacher Certificate and Crest in National Education Week in the District Wise Competition in Chapainawabganj District. He has gained many literary awards from home and abroad. His English writings have been published in Synchronized Chaos for seven years.
Once when he was in grade ten in 1990, his Bangla letter was selected as the best one from Deutsche Welle, Germany Radio that broadcast Bangla news for the Banglalee people. And he was given 50 Dutch Mark as his award. They would ask letters from the listeners to the news in Bangla and select one letter for the best one in every month.
From 17 to 30 September, in 2018 he received a higher training in teaching English language in Kasetsart University of Thailand for secondary level students through a government order from education ministry.
On 06 November 2015 he achieved Amjad Ali Mondal Medal for his contribution in education field by a development organization in the conference and felicitation function for the honorable personalities at Rajshahi College Auditorium.
On 30 December 2017 from West Bengal in India he was declared a ‘Literary Charioteer’ in Bangobandhu Literary and World Bango Conference and they awarded him with a Gold Medal in their International Literary Conference and Prize Giving Ceremony.
In 2018, he achieved Prodipto Lirerary Award in Prodipto Literary Conference at Kesorhat, Rajshahi for poems in Bangla literature. He received honorary crest from the administration of Chapainawabganj District Literary Conference and Cultural Function in 2021 and 2022 consecutively.
His poems have been published in many international online magazines such as Juntos Por las L Raven Cage Zine, and Area Felix. His poems have been translated and published in Argentine and Serbian, and he participated in many international online cultural meetings.
Tashkent State University of Uzbek Language and Literature, Faculty of Philology 1st year student
Mother – The Heart of the Universe
Mother and nature. At first glance, these two words may seem unrelated, but at their core, they are deeply intertwined. When I look at the universe, every moment spent with my mother vividly comes to mind. If I look closely, the oxygen in the open air feels like my mother’s love—boundless and essential for every human being. Just as a person cannot survive for a single moment without oxygen, one cannot live without a mother’s affection or truly feel the most beautiful moments of life.
Even the seasons of nature remind me of my mother’s moods. When faced with external injustices and sorrows, her spirit may wither like autumn leaves falling from a tree. Yet, with her child’s success or even the smallest gesture of love, her heart blossoms like the first buds of spring.
Just as nature bestows endless blessings upon humanity, a mother provides the very best for her children, even if it means sacrificing her own life. Even if we observe the world of birds, the relationship between mother and child is clearly reflected. A mother bird, despite all dangers and hardships, never stops searching for food until her chicks are fed, often giving everything she has found to her young without eating a morsel herself. Is this not a reflection of a human mother?
Another truth I have gathered from the world is this: just as a mother brings a child into the world, nurturing and protecting them within herself, nature provides a home and all the necessary blessings for every living creature, including humanity.
Abstract: This article explores benefits of utilizing podcasts and story-telling methods for developing listening and pronunciation skills while learning foreign languages. Nowadays, these methods are crucial for developing learners’ listening and comprehension. In this article, we will see how these two methods are really effective in real life.
Key words: listening and pronunciation skills, podcasts, storytelling, concentration
Introduction: In modern world, developing listening skill is not only demand for some certificates like IELTS, TOEFL, or others, but also it is vitally important to understand cultural circumstances. For a lot of people, listening is the most difficult section. Learning in only traditional lessons without beneficial ways is so boring for learners and of course it forms hate in learners mind to new language. In initial time, we must know what ways are helpful to improve it. Actually, using podcasts and story-telling methods is one of the best ways. What is podcast and storytelling? Podcast – collection of general themes of native speakers’ speeches about interesting, documentary, funny themes or other ones. They can help to reduce misunderstanding and learn new languages from native speakers in English. Storytelling is utilizing written sounds, pictures for talking some story again. It is so useful to make learning prosses meaningful and attractive. This article highlights advantages of these two methods.
There are key points using podcasts and story-telling:
First, they improve intonation and rhythm in pronunciation.
While learners tell story again and again, they can have better speech. They try to understand general idea. This situation has double positive points. It is productive way to make good intonation and improve memory than other traditional methods. Furthermore, it gives a chance to remember good ideas while speaking. Of course it is necessary for beautiful speeches. Moreover, learners can listen native’s accent and make use of it in real life. Additionally, it encourages better memory
Second, better concentration.
When learners listen some podcast, they can concentrate very well. Because they pay attention more and more to a podcast’s words. They have interesting meaning. In listeners’ mind it emerges a question as “What will be next?” Notably, there are emotional opinions or sentences in podcasts. Specifically, sometimes they are amusing, comic, or cause you to cry. They force to listen alertly.
According to some researches, among noisy condition by listening podcast people can enhance their concentration continuously. For instance, when we listen to podcast, we try to understand what about it, why we must listen it or etc. In addition, we have an opportunity to learn native speakers’ words, collacations. Indeed it is the great way to form our language more natural than learning by heart prepared words.
Thirdly, a developing mindset.
While listening podcast, learners gather lots of information in their mind about something. Especially, there are so many podcasts which are beneficial for them in English. As an example, when people watch a podcast about countries, the most beautiful places, the cleanest ones, they will have general idea about it. If they do not understand very well, they may watch or listen again and aging. It is one of the extra benefits for learners. In the same way, it is so comfortable way to learn easily. Today’s research shows that, listening podcasts can affect positively by increasing creative facts or ideas. In other words, by listening podcasts learners can take motivations. They are created from real life situations. And people can have opportunities to select ones which they are interested in theme from wide range of podcasts.
Conclusion. To summarize, listening skill may enhance by adding podcasts and story-telling methods to learning process. Podcasts can give attentive and memorable materials. Storytelling can also improve learner’s speech. Always Using these methods is a way to have perfect listening skill. With these two methods no one tired of learning, otherwise he/she may love the new language as a native. Indisputable fact that, they will be successful in this language with so many awards or their career.
References:
Smith, J. (2020). Storytelling in Language Education. Oxford University Press
Renandya, W. A., & Farrell, T. S. C. (2011). ‘Teacher, the tape is too fast!’ Extensive listening in ELT. ELT Journal, 65(1), 52–59. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccq015
Ramirez, M. G. (2024). The Use of Podcasts for Language Learning: A Systematic Review of Literature. International Journal of English Language Studies, 6(1), 47–53. https://doi.org/10.32996/ijels.2024.6.1.4
Ramirez, M. G. (2025). Systematic review on the use of podcasts for language learning. Journal of Language Teaching and Learning Research, 18(1), 45–67. https://doi.org/10.xxxx/jltr.2025.18.1.45
Mukhtasarkhon Khusanjonova was born on September 12, in Uzbekistan, Fergana. She is a student at Uzbekistan State World Language University, English philology faculty. She is a bright and creative student from Uzbekistan. She enjoys learning foreign languages, especially English and Spanish. Muxtasar is also interested in education and personal growth.
