Practicing English in USA Who from you have ever thought would practice a lot of English when travelling to USA? I did thought it in my first trip to there. But in spite of have practiced English in my travelling, it didn´t ocurred in the amount I had planned. I confess I didn´t traveled to spend my English, but I wanted to match pleasure and learning. Why not! My problem was that I went to Florida. Every person who once have been there knows that Spanish is probably more common there than English, or almost that. And, every time I tried to use my poor English with a native English speaker, in a shop for example, the standard answer was: "I will call an Spanish speaker to you. One moment..." If only I spoke Spanish! My mother language is Portuguese! Despite Portuguese to be very similar to Spanish, as I had never studied Spanish before that time, I felt better trying to speak in English. So, I felt quite frustrated with that situation. By the second time I went there, after two years. The situation was a bit better. My English wasn´t a lot richer than it was in my first trip. But, I was studying Spanish! So, I could be happy talking to in Spanish.

Alguien puede decirme si hay diferencia en la utilización de "desde hace..." y "hace"?

Is it correct to use the expression "I ain't ..."? Is this expression often used?