That's why I am here It's time to make the first post here. My name is Anastasia. I'm 27 years old, and only now I begin to study English seriously. I live in Russia, in the Urals. This is my homeland and I've never been abroad. I have a linguistic education, but my specialty is Russian language, and with English I have difficulties. Of course, I had English lessons at school and university. But I didn't like this language. I was bored, and I did my tasks carelessly. Now I feel cut off from the whole world because I don't know English as good as I would like. I want to read all the books that interest me. I want to communicate with foreigners and help them learn Russian. I want to watch movies without translation, because the translation often disfigures them. So I've decided to participate in the project "Language Heroes". This is a program of self-study for 12 weeks. Now is the second week of the course, and I repeat the pronunciation. It would be great to find someone who could listen to the text I read and point out mistakes. I've already got a couple of tips on HiNative. It turns out that I have problems with "-ing", for example. There's something to work on and I like it :)