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Improving my English writing
Well, it's been a while since I wrote the last notebook entry. I've been busy and I couldn't had a break to practice my writing, but I found another ways to improve my English skills. Now, I try to see any movie or TV series in its original language. First, I started to watch all movies with Spanish subtitles. Later, I replaced Spanish subtitles for English subtitles, and now I'm trying to understand it without any help. Sometimes I feel like I understand most of the conversations they have in some sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory, but later when I'm watching The Walking Dead, I feel totally lost, I barely catch a word. It is very frustrating because I have already seen this TV series in Spanish, but I can't do it in English.
Another way to improve is reading all news in English. At first, it was difficult but, even if I didn't get one hundred percent, I can understand most of what I'm reading. Something I had long been pending is conversation, because I never tried to express myself in English with another person, and I need to find time to practice, no matter how. I know this last thing is one of the most difficult task to do when you're learning any language.
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Introducin myself II, The revenge
Hello!
Yesterday was the first time I wrote something here. I introduced myself and tried to explain what I'm doing here. Today, I'd like to keep practicing English with another text. I know I need to have conversations with other people too, but these past two weeks I've been really busy with a lot of things in my schedule and my priority is to focus on writing, learn vocabulary and improve the way I wrote English. Maybe next week, it will be time to move on and take the next step.
Just changing the subject a little bit, lately, I've been thinking on working outside my country in order to know and understand other countries around the world, and because I think this is good for my career, and I'm sure the experiencie could be well worth. The problem comes when I try to get a job, because the interview, of course, is in English. A job interview is always something you need to be well prepared, but if it is also in another language, you must struggle with a double burden and that's why I am here, to practice as much as I can and help others along the way.
Well, enough for today.
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Introducing myself
Hi itaki community!
I've been in this community for a few days now, but I've just been correcting another notebooks and helping others with their text written in Spanish. I think, it is time to write my own text in order to improve my writing skills and let me be helped by others. I used to use a lot the dictionary when I write a text in English and, using Internet, search these sentences that I am not sure are well written, but now I am really trying to avoid this behavior, because in real life I am not going to be able to use any dictionary, only my own English skills.
Well, before continue, better to introduce myself properly. My name is Jose and I live in Barcelona (Spain). I always wanted to improve my English, but I have never gone so far. Now, I'm planning to work outside my country and English is critical in order to other people understand me and I could understand what they are telling me. In the last few weeks, I have been making great progress, but I still have a long way to go. I try to see all the movies in English with no subtitles, but sometimes I don't catch a word, it is better with some TV series, but understand some people talking is still something really hard to do for me. Another issue is my lack of conversation in English. Any close friend knows a work in English, so I don't have anyone to talk with and practice. Now that I know there's people over Internet to practice using Skype, I will do it on my free time.
I think, it is enough for now, I hope the text is not that bad as I think it is.
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