Complex sentences practice Hi everyone! Today I'm gonna practice with more complex sentences. I've realised that I use only simple, short sentences, and now I want to improve my writings. This summer I'm going to do a report about lazy evaluations in Haskell programming language because I'm one from the enthusiasts of the Russian Haskell community. Because of last four days was rainy, I didn't ride my mountain bike. Modern English language contains more than 350 irregular verbs, although in daily practice we use less than 100 of them. I don't drink any alcohol for the last 11 years because I know it's a dangerous drug and can to destroy human relationships. I love Hayao Miyazaki's anime films because I see the real feelings, complex personalities and beautiful nature. Assuming you're a normal adult you can learn at least one foreign language perfectly.

Wow, I understand! Hi everyone! Today I want to share my gladness with you. I began to understand real English speech! Not only speech of English teachers, not only speech in "VOA Special English", but speech of the real people! This morning I saw one video lecture about functional programming (it's for my work), and I understood almost 95% of all! Wow, that was great. Only some words I didn't know was missed. I love English language!

About English learning Hi everyone! Today I want to share with you one important thought that I realised this morning. This thought is about English learning. I understood that there's no perfect English! There's no PERFECT grammar and no PERFECT pronunciation. So I'll not worry about this PERFECTION anymore. Many Russian people learning English are afraid to make a mistake in grammar or to say some word incorrectly. And this fear is a wall on their path. They think: 'So, when I will be able to speak perfectly and when I will study all the grammar rules, I will start to speak...' And I thought exactly like this. But now I understand that it's an illusion. And now I want to break this fear in me.

Please mark my handwriting Hi everyone! Today I need your help. I'm sure that I cannot talk about "complete English learning" without ability of writing in English by hand. So I started hand blog, and there's one of my exercises. It's a quotes of Stephen Hawking: http://hand.dshevchenko.biz/2015/04/13/hawking-quotes.html. So I need your advices about quality of my handwriting. Is this text easy to read? I'm waiting for your replies.

About my family Hi everyone! Today I'm going to tell you about my family. I'm 34, and I'm married for 11 years. We have three amazing kids: son Matvey and two daughters, Evgeniya and Olesya. Matvey is 9 years old, and he's our pride. He's very clever and interested in science and technic. We saw many science films from Discovery and BBC, so now he knows about Earth's history, about dinosaurs, about electron microscope and so on. Of course, his favourite toy is a Lego. Evgeniya is 4 years old, and she's our artist. She likes to draw and to dance, and she's so, so cute. Matvey and Evgeniya are close friends, but, of course, conflicts between them occures sometimes. Olesya is just one month old now. She eats, sleeps, screams and sometimes smiles. So, like all other 1-month babies. ;-) I'm totally happy with our family.

First bike ride in this year So, today I rode my bike first time in this year. And it was awesome! I love mountain bike very much. However, I don't ride on dangerous paths, because, you know, I'm not very extreme person. I use my bike not only for fitness, but as a transport too: sometimes I transport small stuff. Yes, I can transport it by the car, but it's not so interesting. ;-) By the way, my speed record is 62 km/h.

Russian language interest Honestly, I'm very glad to see interest in learning of Russian language. I see many people on italki who learn Russian. Although it's difficult language, I see many essays written in Russian, and these essays are excellent! It's awesome to see how many people learn languages of each others.

Nice flight Yesterday I flew from Moscow to Yerevan. Flight was excellent, without any delays. Moreover, landing was smooth: usually, I feel a little pain in my ears during landing (in different aircrafts), but this time landing was completely painless for me. And now I'm in home again.

About my English targets I create software for the last 9 years. And now I finally realized: I can't continue without strong English skills. Yes, I can read IT-books, and QA-sites, and discussions on reddit, but it's not enough. I see many interesting job offers around the world - but what I see in their descriptions? "Strong oral skills" and "Excellent oral skills"! But I haven't strong oral skills! Honestly, I haven't any oral skills because I live in non-English country. And now I learn English, hard and every day. I listen British and American speech in podcasts. I see Disney movies with or without subtitles. And now I see the progress. For example, I saw last presentation from Apple company, and I understood at least 90% of speech? It's amazing, because I saw this presentation one year ago and I understood 20% of speech, maybe 30%. But most importantly - I start to see the beauty of English language! It's very beautiful! To be honest, I like British pronunciation a little bit more than American. :-) Now I want to improve my English to level B2 and try to take some Cambridge exam, maybe PET.