Meaning of... "Fred believes that he has no choice. He really suffers over money. He's this skinny, young-looking 15-year-old. And he is perpetually strapped for cash. And he said that his parents couldn't help him much with money right now because they had just gone $500,000 into debt." I'd like to know the meaning of: "He really suffers over money". I'm not quite sure what's the idea. I can understand the context, but I'd like to know more about the idea of suffering over money.

Meaning of... We stood in the hallway. People streamed by. We tried to move to a corner where we would not be overheard. What's the meaning of "People streamed by"? I can't get it.

Living with an illnesses It's not easy when you have to face your everyday routine "carrying" this "bag" called illness... Actually, you have to pretend that this issue doesn't exist. Living with certain limits (despite your age), being aware of the symptoms of your disease, in every single thing you do, some days it's not easy to bear. However, there are some others when you realize that this is your "new" reality, your current life, and you should live it in the best way you can, no matter what, trying to be happy despite ​the circumstances, and thank God for being alive.

Meaning of one word Please, someone could explain to me the meaning of "conies" in the sentence below because the dictionary says: CONY: a rabbit, or the fur of a rabbit. "May 1945: The war in Europe conies to an end." Thank you!​

Is it convenient study abroad? There are so many people who believe, in order to reach the fluency, they need to study abroad but, is this necessary nowadays? If you think in that, today we have so many resources such as the internet, YouTube, Netflix, even Italki. Probably in the past, it was necessary to spend some time abroad, because the opportunities were extremely limited. Are you agree with me?

How pathetic he is... I've been watching Harry Potter and The Deadly Hallows part 2, and I can't stop thinking about how pathetic is Lord Voldemort and his army. They fought against a few adults and a bunch of senior students, helped by giants, huge spiders, and werewolves. However, this "almighty" army was defeated, because his commander was a pathetic excuse of a magician, which rejected his origins pretending to be something that he wasn't, and the worst part was this: he lost against a teenager.

A theory I have a theory about the writings here in Italki. If you write something, your corrections will depend on your level and how accurate it will be. What I'm saying is if your level is low and make many mistakes, you will receive more than one correction, on the other hand, if your level is high and the number of your mistakes are low, there is a possibility that nobody corrects it. Well, this is just simple observation. However, there are so many people who are not fluent in their own language because they are not capable of to notice some mistakes, due to the lack of knowledge of their mother tongue. So, these people "don't like" to correct those notebook entries who are accurate or well written because there is not "many errors" to correct or simply they are not aware of.

Changes, changes... Changes aren't easy to face. Confronting them produce a combination of sentiments, since stir up our deepest emotions. Probably the most important of those is the fear because passing through situations that we aren't used to, set us in the unknown, in the mist, therefore creating discomfort, anxiety, and stress in our bodies and hearts. Most of the times, these changes are not voluntary, as they were not elected as a personal choice and probably this could be the main reason of our discomfort, but everybody knows that life is how it is. However, sometimes we chose them voluntarily, even though they trigger in us these negative feelings, even so, awaken in us positive feelings, which guides us to new experiences, positive ones, like to meet new people, new places, etc. Yes, no one like them, but are totally necessary, because they help us to grow, to thrive, to reach new dreams and see new opportunities, to perceive the world with different eyes... Clearer eyes.

The Circle of Life Have you realized that the world is becoming more extreme these days? What I'm trying to say is people from all over the world is polarizing their positions, believes or thoughts. For instance, this new feminism who is demonizing every man (it's true there are some demons, but not every man is one of it), or the trans "language crusade" with the pronouns they/them (This is going on in the Spanish speaking world too). Actually, this is not something new, basically, our entire history is an endless loop, for example, before the first world war was everything about new ideas, new discoveries, were all progress, however, in some point the new ideas became wrong or dangerous, some beliefs turned in a complete mistake, etc. We know what happened next, right? Well, in the movie "The Lion King", the main theme song was "The Circle of Life", because the life is that, a circle, a loop, and the saddest part is: "We're condemned to repeat our own history over and over", in spite of the technology, even when we have thousands of books of history, despite we studying history at school, or Wikipedia, or Internet, etc. the human race has a lack of memory in this kind of issues.