Qual o livro mais interessante que lestes ainda este ano? Estou lendo A Revolução dos Bichos de George Orwell, a versão em português. Até o momento, estou amando. Nesses dias de chuva, ler acaba sendo uma boa pedida.
Mas quero saber de vocês, alguma recomendação?

Italki app Guys. We all know that the italki app is not perfect and it is impossible to see the long introduction on people's profile.
 For people who are strictly looking for "native speakers" of their target language and have put that information on the long intro I'd recommend you to do that on the short one.
At least, if people still don't get it. That is on them.
Unless they are patient enough to copy their user ID, go to your phone browser, type italki.com/user/typetheirIDhere.

Since people have been complaining about Skype after the updates - Who is willing to help me test it now.

Greetings! How are you all doing today? I hope you are all fine.

I'm Stephane. I'm from Brazil and my mother tongue is Portuguese.  I'm a retail sales consultant and I'm working at home. I've been learning English since January. Now that a have a bit more free time, I'm willing to take it more seriously.

Here is the thing, I'm planning to star a group call not just to test it Skype but to talk to some fellow English learners here. That way I'll make sure I won't have many problems when I book a lesson, or something.

Maybe a not too long call, it depends on how many of you respond to this and are willing to participate.

Regarding the topics of the conversation, I'm thinking it would be a good idea to talk about our learning process and I have prepared some questions such as: What is your mother tongue, how many languages do you speak, why English and what you do to practice, etc?

I'm a beginner but I think that it would be good to start practicing speaking now, rather than just writing and reading.

Whoever is willing to help me out, please send me a message. It is not a good idea to share your Skype ID in the comments since everybody can see it and I'm not responsible for the people that might try to add you claiming to be me.

I'll share mine with whoever contacts me.

Please ignore all that. To complain about the software was not my intend. The whole content of my post, except for the title, does not even contain any comments about it. Thanks anyway.

American movies

I came across a list of movies, where the main idea is that each movie is set on a different state of the U.S.

I'm tempted to watch them all, since I enjoy watching movies in general.

I find lists like these to be quite useful when looking for resources to practise our listening given the fact that we would be exposed to different accents, etc.

What do you guys think?

Multilingual-rudeness. Yes, I've made up that term. I guess.

If you speak tons of languages and have managed to find a way to be as rude as possible when speaking each one of them, what is the point? 

Wouldn't it be better just to choose silence and spare as all? 

How can we survive as a species if we keep being mean to each other?

I keep telling that to myself in order to turn myself into what I consider a respectful person.

After writing this as a notebook entry, I decided to post it here and ask what are your thoughts on it.

Discord group - I have finally found one. I have finally found a group on Discord for serious English learners, but they've kicked me out before I had the chance to practice with them.
 I'm not sure about what happened since they were really welcoming, at first, and I have never been disrespectful.
I just told them I would not be active for a while for personal reasons. Nobody asked me what it was so I didn't tell anyone.
Actually, one of the reasons was the fact that my kitten was killed in my front door and that made deeply sad.
By the same week, a family member of mine almost end up in jail and I was not that motivated to practise English, at all.

Maybe it was a cultural thing, maybe I didn't expressed myself in a way they would understand me. What makes me even more sad about it is that, if that is the case, a fellow member, a person from my country, would have contacted me or something.

I like discord because it has the Voice Chat feature where you can talk to a group of people, instead of holding an one on one session/conversation.

Despite feeling disappointed, I am not giving up. And now that I got your attention, may I ask.
 Do you know any groups where people are, not just welcoming once they think your level is "advanced", but also understanding in case of absence, especially for the reasons I've mentioned before?
I feel that a skype group wouldn't be a good idea, now that the new Skype has changed, and not in a good way.

There is any other tool, app or software that you guys have tried and approved?

Italki shows that I have 3 comments when I can't see any. That is weird.

My cat was killed I got to find a way to find out who killed my cat. It is not its (her)death that is bothering me. It is the fact that I'm pretty sure I had the chance to stop that from happening, and I didn't do anything about it.

I have a question for my fellows self-taught english learners out there.

I mean--> *fellow self-taught English learners*
I can't correct the title

If you were contacted by an English teacher offering you the chance to get one of your questions about the English language answered in a one-on-one meeting.
What would you ask them, knowing that the answer would be up two minutes long?

*This is for research purposes.

Youse How often do you think you are going to be using "youse" instead of you guys, you all, etc? Does it feel weird to read that in a book, a discussion thread, or on a chat with friends even?