Please, check the text about my first month. Hi everybody! My name is Maria and I am happy to participate in this language marathon. These four weeks have passed very quickly, I could never think that someday I will be able to do it! I very proud of yourself because I have finished to listen Pimsleur lessons second level, my listening skills have become much better. Also I practically finished to study Elementary course of Viktor Milovidov which helped me repeat my grammar. I still do a lot of small mistakes, but that's doesn't matter for me. I finally can read and understand and now I want to start to write and speak. I had never thought that someday I will be study every single day for 2 hours minimum because I'm so restless. Unfortunately I don't have enough time for conversations with foreigners, maybe I'll do it next month. I'm very friendly so if you want to have conversation with me in English, let's do it!

I have tried to retell the story. Check me, please. I was a clever and poor boy and i don't have enough money to pay for my education. During my holidays I found two jobs at the same time-in the butcher's shop during the daytime and another in the hospital at night. I cut meat quite nicely so the butcher went to do the accounts into a room behind the shop. In the hospital i could do only the simplest jobs. I was helping to lift people from one part of the hospital to another. I wore only white clothes on both jobs. One evening I started to help a woman from her bed to place where she was to have an operation. She was very frightened and when she saw me she started to cry and fainted away. I think, she thought that I was a butcher.