About pronunciation and accent This week I am ill and I spend my time with English learning videos. I was watching many videos about differences between american and british english. What do I think about these differences and my english pronunciation? First I noticed that my pronunciation is the mix of british and american english (spiced with huge hungarian accent). This can be because in the school "standard" english was learnt (in my opinion this isn't exist) and our teacher also didn't know that the pronunciation is british or american or neither of them. :-) I hope I can learn the differences and can use only one type in one time. Second I think differences are not so huge. Hungary is a small country but we also have differences in the language inside this country. For example I grew up in North Hungary and my boyfriend came from Budapest (this is only 100 kilometers distance) and sometimes we cannot understand each other because of the differences of used words. :-) In many cases we also use different pronunciation but it is not a problem.

Is he a spy or not? :-) I have a colleague, let me give him a nickname, hmm, for example Nick. He is a few years elder than me. Where we work everyone knows about him nothing except that his mother is Russian (I saw his ID card so this is true) so he also speaks Russian very well. As he said he has a brother and a sister but no one saw them or hear about them so we don't know if this is true or not. And that's all. No one knows where he lives, he has a girlfriend/wife and children or not or for example has a pet or not. Sometimes I ask him to give me some chocolate. He alwas has chocolate and I alwas get from him but all of these chocolates are from Russia, they have Russian label. Why? And another interesting thing: he goes to abroad many times, to Austria, Slovakia, Turkey, America and so on. But the interesting thing is that he goes everywhere by airplane (also to Slovakia and Austria but they are in our neighborhood...). When he gives us the time when his plane departs there is always a plane which departs to Moscow. And when he arrives there is always a plane which arrives from Moscow. Coincidence or not? :-)

About the last few weeks on italki I registered a few weeks ago on italki. I wanted to find an opportunity where I can improve my English conversational skills (and writing here is also another great opportunity!). In the last few month I didn't use English language and unfortunately I forgot so many things. The moment when I decided that I must do something against it was that I couldn't remember the one of the most basic word "calendar". That was terrible. I had fear about making conversations with a native english speaker but I thought it is the most effective way to learn again the forgotten things quickly. Fortunately I found a good teacher who is really patient with me and I can take lessons twice per week. We always have conversations about my last days and my plans for next days and also learn something new. When I have time next to italki lessons I try to use additional English materials and organize learnt materials. Now there is a little chaos in my head and also have fear before my lessons but I believe it will be changed.

About Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes is one of the most famous character in the literature. He is the favourite character of thousands maybe millions of people, mine too. He appears in Sir Artur Conan Doyle's novels and short stories. With his words he is a consulting detective (the first in the world and in his age the only one) who helps to solve other people's problems. It doesn't matter who asks help from him he helps to everyone for example to poor people and also to the king of Bohemia. Money doesn't matter for him, the enjoyment of to solve complicated mysteries is the most important for him. He has a friend and a "biographer" Dr. John Watson. Dr. Watson was a military surgeon in Afganisthan and after he returned to London he met with Sherlock Holmes who looked for a roommate to his flat. After this they became friends and he accompanies Sherlock Holmes often to his adventures.

My first notebook entry - What did happen today? Hello! This is my first notebook entry on italki, I am very happy about this writing possibility. Today morning was boring because I was alone in the office. I made some administrative things and tried to learn some new english words. After lunch unfortunately I noticed that I am ill, I have fever. The boss said that I could go home after we brought back my corporate car from the service. My illness means that I couldn't go to training today afternoon. I hope I will get better on the weekend and next week I will be able to go to training again. A competition is held at the end of September and I would like to participate on it.