Commenting in a Blog! Hey Adp, Congrats for your Blog! Talking about to study English, I'm gonna say a little about my experience. I'm a self-study because I don't like the way that school taught. However, something that I learnt; - Independently of studing in a school, particular teacher or being a self-study, your target-language just will get better with everyday studies; - It is not necessary leaving your country to learn a language. Why do I say that? Recently, I was in a study group about English which challenge you to hold a conversationg for 15 minutes with a native. I studied 30 minutes to 1 hour per day, 4 to 5 days in a week during 3 months. Here my experience; - I do not start from scratch ( I've had learnt something about English); - I can hold a conversation in less than a month (Of course, I listened to more than I talked). Well, before I get into this challenge I went in a school to learn English (I just went there for a week) and, after that I've always tried to study by myself and never saw my progress. After the challenge, I noticed my problem. I did not have a sequence studies about English. I studied once a week, sometimes twice. The challenge has opened my eyes. If you did not have a studies routine, trying to study everyday, I tell you that will be very difficul to achieve your goal. So, that's it! I hope I can help you!

Improving your listening A lot of people tell me that the best way to improve my listening is watching a movie, series or things like that and then writing down the words and sentences I don't know. Ok, but I'll give you an example, one man is studying abroad, he has an intermediate level of English and so that he's been talking to people he will be touch with words and sentences that he's never heard before, right? The problem is that he's not carrying a notebook to write down those words (OK, he would be crazy doing this). What does he supposed to do?

Yesterday I made a text Yesterday I started the day writing a text that to be honest doesn't make any sense! It was funny when I saw what I did. I tried to say a little bit about my language learning rut and I failed because some sentences didn't make sense. They weren't consistent. I said in that text that you have to stop by thinking about what you should do in your target language. You know, Thinking about what you have to do instead of taking actions is not good. I meant you have to stop by "thinking" and starting "doing" for you get better in your target language. I thank Baggio for helping me with that text and I hope he had fun with it!

What do I do to get better in my target language What do I do to get better my target language? Well, Every day I get up thinking of what I can do to improve my English and the answer is always I don't know...yep it's sad but actually I learned with it...Thinking of what you have to do is not the better way to improve your language. Trust me, just stop to do this! Doing something you want to do in your target language is the better way to improve it no matter what you are doing because what's really matter is the action. What would be this action? Well, doing something you like to do such as listen to music, watch movies or something else. Of course, fun is the key to this working because without it you will get bored quickly. Why am I saying this? Well, I've always been looking for a way or a magician trick that improve my English and you know what? I've just spent a long time looking for it! So, just stop to look for a magician trick and doing something you want to do. That's my advice. So Action guys!

What I have done about learning English Well, I've been having successful with the way I decided to learn English. So what do I do? First of all, I started with grammar and I didn't like it. You know, rules, rules, over and over makes me freaking out. I'm kidding but I really noticed that I wasn't getting better with grammar. Then I went to find out a way to really learn English because grammar didn't improve my English, in fact I even saw progress but not the way that I hope. Maybe you guys asking me.. How did you notice that? Well easy, Every time that I tried to speak or even writting to someone I didn't feel confidence to do that. And the worst thing is that I didn't even try! Perhaps it was the fear of making mistakes and I guess it was. In one of my searches, I found out LingQ a website about learning languages. And I liked the kind of teach that they offer. How is that teaching? They want you to learn through "listening". You chose a history then you start to listen to it. The first time you do you can't read the text. you can just read the text in the third time that you listen to history. So they say that if you do this over and over you will get better on your target language. In my opinion, I think this method good but not good enough. Just read and listen to was working but when I started to writing while I listen and after that I corrected my writting with the right text. boy, my English started to getting better! I noticed that when I watch movies, I listen to music, I can understand many words that I'm hearing, it is amazing!

Go to the gym! Hey guys, How are you doing? This is my video 3. Oh Actually, this is video 4 because the real video 3 I didn't like it as I've talked about working. Well, you know, no one likes working! So, I made another video. Today I'm going to talk about "go to the gym". Yeah, to get fit, to get stronger and something else haha, well let's get started! I go to the gym to get stronger, to be the strongest man that you've ever seen. Seriouslly, I go there to be like a Arnald Schwarznegger! No, no, I'm joking! Actually, I go to the gym to get rid of stress. Yep, simple as that. And how could I do that? Oh easily! I go to the gym not only to get fit but I mainly do for my mind. Working a whole day on a computer and supporting some users can be very stressful. Yeah, trust me. So I go to the gym to make new friends, to talk and of course to be stronger! And the best part, it's fun! OK, work hard is not a easy thing but it's worth to do it. It really does! Well, I've got go. Take care guys

My studies week Hey guys, how are your studies going? This week I haven't studied as much as I wanted but at the very least, I could do it for 30 min. On Thursday, I had my first conversation in English. It was very nice. the tutor said that it understood what I told for it. I wasn't so nervous as I imagined

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My first conversation Yesterday I had my first conversation in English. Actually, I already had one. Once at work, the secretary called me to answer the phone. I answered it and I got it that the man in the other side was a Dutchman. I can't understand a lot what he said. I just got it he is from Netherland and he wanted to talk to director. Just it. gee... it was so hard for me! But I think I could help him. Well, that one was different. I could understand almost everything she said and she told me she understood what I tried to say! I could say much more things than that one. Now I see that I've got a lot of works to do because I could understand her but when I tried to speak...