Could the socialism make good to us as a society? I think that being a socialist world, could make better to us as a species, not only because we would live better but also because we could have a better economy. Can you imagine the benefits of being a socialist world? We could end with the hungry and thirst. We wouldn’t have homeless people. We probably could have better chances to everyone because it would be possible to have good schools everywhere. I mean the meritocracy is a concept that makes me think that if someone could get some goal, we can do it too. But it isn’t that true, there are much implicid things that we can ever imagine, for instance: The kind oh house the person lives; if they need to worry about what they’ll eat in the next day or if they have to work to help their Family to pay the bills. On the other hand, like Einstein said that all along There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. Maybe this kind of economy could make us a little lazy and probably we would not be able to invent such things, for instance: personal computers, iPods, iPhones, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and so on. In fact, maybe we could have an economic crash because some of us work just because we need to pay the bills. Others, on the other hand, work with pleasure and these people could be full of work for those who don’t want to produce anything. To conclude, I think that it’s possible to go towards the socialism but we can’t do it overnight, it’s a step by step construction. Maybe we can do it someday, but for now, I think that we should try a mixed economy with some goods of socialism and some goods of capitalism. Thank you for reading. See you in the next essay [emoji][emoji]

Improving my speaking I started to study English more effectively at the beginner of this year. When I started, I could understand most of the videos that I was watching (most of them was teaching English) on YouTube, so I got confident quickly. Someday I was trying to do a conversation with a guy and I barely could speak. I was able to understand everything that he was saying but I couldn't answer his questions because I always got myself losing the correct words. After that, I looked for a teacher and I made a good friend and we now talk to each other almost every day. Now I'm getting more confident than ever. I was in the right place and in the right hour. Sometimes I catch myself thinking in English and sometimes I lose words in Portuguese... LoL He's helping me more than he can ever imagine... This is almost a thankful letter. :)

Creative process I was wondering what I should write and I had no idea. I would like to know what do you do when you don’t have any ideas to write? What makes you creative people? Give some tips to make me more creative. Thanks.

My company business I work for an insurance company. My company business is health care and we deal with insurance claim. Because we don’t have free healthcare services in Brazil, most companies hire an Insurance company, like ours, to provide health care to their employees.

Grammar help I'm studying English by myself and I use some grammar books to show me the way. I read in one of these books, that in English we can contract the "to have" verb only if it's followed by another verb like in this phrase: I've got a new car. But In some sentences, I think that sounds weird, for instance: I've to eat. So, I think that I misunderstood the rule. Can anyone help me with that?

Informal talk with a friend When you're speaking or spending lots of time reading and writing in a foreign language, do you feel like your brain are tired? When you get more fluent, this feeling go away? Please, share your opinion :)

My blog This is my first post and I want to introduce myself to you guys. My name is Luciene I’m an IT Project Leader and I love to learn new languages as a hobby. Although I do not consider myself fluent in any language, I love know new words in many languages. I just created this blog to improve my English and other languages that I want to get better. Please, before saying things like “your English is poor” etc… read all this post. Thank you Let’s go! Last year I was looking for a way to improve my English and I found this website that made me think about to create my own blog (http://www.usingenglish.com/articles/70-ways-to-improve-your-english.html). So this blog was created to improve my English because writing more and more is the best way to improve any language. So if you want to share your experience with other people, join this blog and be welcome. After that, I saw a post in English Experts that made me think more about it. The owner of the post was Frank a guy that is traveling the world for 11 years (that’s so cool). This guy created the formulafluente and in one of his class he told that we need to practice more acting skills than passive so after that, I realized that all I need to do is write and speak more than I read and listen. You probably are thinking: “OK, you’re writing a blog and your English will be better, but it doesn’t mean that you’ll speak well” and my answer is: You’re right, and in the next post I’ll tell you things that I do for practice my speaking. Thank you for reading.

About my last position Before my current position. I have worked for two years for an IT company. I was allocated to my current employer and they invited me to their company. On that company, I have worked with Java, JSP, Struts, DB2, and Oracle databases. I was responsible for many projects with these technologies such as income tax - This project generates the information that insured must include in the income tax for the deduction of taxes - medical report - This report generates the information about health insurance utilization to our insured employee and to the insured as well. Now, I'm working seventy percent as a team leader and thirty percent as a developer. I'm not a hands-on professional anymore but I'm looking for a position that will bring me back to it.

Insurance compamy I work in an insurance company. I have been working here for 8 years. I worked on many projects such as expenses refund to the insured, payment of service providers and fatality in general. I changed the project about one year and a half ago and now I have been working on a project that makes payments to service providers.