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HI Friends ! Friends i was apart from italki in the last months, but i was tired making nothing to improve my english, so i am back again writing something to know about you. Friends the life is so fantastic and sometimes bring surprises for our life. what the advice you could give me to help me to improve my english ... Bye friends, until soon

In the England, i always read in the internet about "X" factor, what does exactly mean its "X"factor ?

Looking at for the future I just got the degree of electronic, electric engineer, but also i like and i work with mechanic doing works like drawings, improving machines performance in a metallurgist company, we do here recycle of scraps from aluminum, this is good for the environment. I have been working here since 2000, but now, i want a new challenge in my professional life, i and my family deserve it.

My family I have a boy, he is 6 years old, a girl, she is 10 years old. They are the most precious thing in my life, i think a day when i get age, they will take care me, if i need. My wife is a other jewel that help me every single day to live with happiness. I love my family and i am sure without them i would be a emptiness

What does mean "I've had a rough year on the personal front" ? Is this a expression for a unhappy Year ?

cafezinho In Brazil is normal people uses, for example : coffee in portuguese is café, cafezinho is a diminutive form from café, in the end of the word "inho" is a diminutive suffix. This diminitive sufix is used when people wants to show empathy, more one example: I am drinking a bear in a bar, and suddenly arrrives a close friend, so i invite him to drink a bear with me, i say in portuguese, "Vamos tomar uma cervejinha?" In portuguese is cerveja, in english is beer, a diminutive form in portuguese is cervejinha, people used to talk like this when they want to show Kindness, gentleness. In English how you use this form ?

My week Every day i wake up at 06:30AM, i take a bus next to my house, so i trip during 1/2 hour, then after this time i arrive in the company to work, at 06:00PM i come back to my house. When i get my house and i see my son, my daugther and my wife, this simple thing make me the most happy man of the world.

How can i make a reference to the past that continues up to the present ?