How to study I learn English in several ways. First of all, I read a lot of books in English, now I almost don’t read books in my native language. Secondly, I listen to a lot of audio materials, such as: ESL podcast, 6-minute English, Effortless English, VOA and also I listen to stories on Tuneln Radio when I commute to work. Thirdly, I sometimes write notes in iTalki, but I need to write more notes on different topics. Fourth, I expand vocabulary using the Anki application (SSE 4000 Word) and the textbook "English Dictionary in Use". Also I repeat the grammar using the textbook "Oxford Grammar". Unfortunately, I practice my speaking skills very little, so my pronunciation is very bad. Now I train my speaking skills with the help of a google assistant or a google translator, if the application understands me a little, I think the other person will understand too =)

Reading books Many times I tried to read books in English, but in the end I stopped reading. When I was reading a book in English, I always have to look at a word in the dictionary, because my vocabulary is very small. I even bought a paper book, but I also did not read the book. Once I decided to buy a device for reading electronic books and bought it. I downloaded a lot of e-books from "english-e-reader" and several audiobooks. I again tried to read books in English and was impressed with the success. The device has the ability to use the dictionary with one touch, and this feature has made reading books easy and fast for me. I read many adapted books in English then I found in "goodreads" several lists of books recommended for reading in school and began read them. Now I'm reading several original books.

the weather At the ending of January a temperature began to decrease and the weather became very bad. It is snowing and a strong wind is blowing all day. As the weather is changed a lot I got flu and not fell well. I ate a little food for a couple of day and I didn't go to the gym and work. I am very sad because of the disease, but I still love the winter season so I can snowboarding in the mountain.

Health and Wealth In one part of our life, we earn money because we believe that money is freedom and opportunity. We eat anything and get overweight, smoke cigarettes and get cancer, drink alcohol and injure liver. Some of us have extreme hobbies that can interrupt their live. All of us don't have time of health, people think that health is infinite but as a result some of us later regret about it. In another part of our life we have to spend money on our health. When we get older and we often get sick. We have less energy and do less. In that moment some of us understand the health is a limited resource but one part that we have probably already wasted. Wealth allows us to use the most expensive "magical" medical services, but in the world exist diseases that cure currently is impossible. Medicine today cannot grow a new arm or new leg, today there is no technology to cure a cancer or AIDS. In the end, wealth did not help the richest and most famous people to save their lives. In our life all parts are important to be happy you need good health and enough money and many other things...

"1984" I recently read an adapted book “1984” by George Orwell. I was impressed with the episode, which describes the Newspeak Dictionary. The characters in the book make new dictionary, they destroy “bad words” and leave only necessary ones. They think If all of bad words was destroyed people wouldn't have words to think the crime. “We are not talking about what we see, we only see what we can talk about” — I don't remember where I found this statement. But every time when I try to write something in English I feel I need to more words but I don't know them and I cannot tell you that I think exactly.

Home town My home town called Irbit. I was born and grew-up in this town. The town founded in 1631 year and it is located about 250 kilometers from Yekaterinburg by car. Irbit is small town with population about 40 thousands people. During the World War II a motorcycle factory was moved here from Moscow and over three million motorcycles had been produced. Today, the factory has been producing a small number of motorcycles for export and now it don't work almost. There are the Irbit State Museum of Fine Art and the Irbit State Motorcycle Museum. The Irbit State Motorcycle Museum contains an extensive collection of production, racing and prototype motorbikes. Nowadays in town a lot of shops and only a few factories.

The Russian salad Every New Year in our country people cooks a dish called a Olivier salad. By tradition, we drink champagne and eat Russian salad on New Year's Eve. The original version of salad was invented in the 1860s by a cook Lucien Olivier who was the chief of a famous restaurant in Moscow. Later, the original ingredients was replaced with cheaper foods. Today salad contains peas, eggs, carrots, cucumber, boiled chicken and potatoes, and mayonnaise. Cooking - boil eggs for 7-8 minutes - boil chicken - boil peeled carrots and potatoes for 30 minutes, then vegetables is got out of water and peeled - chop carrots and potatoes by block - chop chicken by block - chop cucumber by block - chop boiled eggs - add in salad peas - add in salad mayonnaise and salt - to mix all ingredients Bon appetit!

The wasted time I had read an article about studying English language yesterday . I was disappointed and at the beginning I even agreed with conclusion in an article. The man written that He wasted ten years of his life for learning English language. Nowadays he don't use English because in his country everyone speaks in native language. He written that He could have studied instead English what else, for example: a history, a literature. The learning English is wasted time, he said. At the beginning I agreed with conclusion in an article but then I have changed my mind. In my country knowledge of English, If you not a teacher, demanded occasionally. Usually English is studied in a school and enthusiastic people for travelling or watching movie in original. At the work high level English needed rarely. Nowadays the world is fast changing, markets is constantly changing, new technology will appear. Nobody don't exactly know to will need tomorrow, maybe it is English. Steve Jobs said that "you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward". That's exactly how I feel. I have been studying English for my future.