An amazing experience. Hey there, italki friends! Tonight I want to tell you about my summer, last year (I was going to say "this", lol) I went to England in August and I stayed in Leeds during 21 days in which I studied english in a college and I lived with a host family. We left A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) the 1st of August at 13:00. I say "we" because we were 15 people (I didn't know any of my mates). We arrived London at 16:00 then we took a bus to Leeds and we arrived it at 23:00! (We made some stops in the way) In the college assistants introduced us our host families and we went home with them. I was really nervous because it was my first real experience with english people and I couldn't understand very good what they said first. Days gone, convivence was good and my spanish mates were amazing too! First Saturday in Leeds we made a trip to Knaresborough, a really beautiful village in the waterside. During the next week we continued going to the college (we had three lessons every day, 6 hours per day). That Saturday we made the second trip, this time we went to Liverpool (west coast), I have always wanted to go because I love The Beatles, Titanic, you know... and it was amazing again but we couldn't see everything because Liverpool is too big and there are too much museums! (I couldn't visit World's Museum :'(!) so I only visited Spaceworld, Titanic Museum and Art Museum, oh, and go in Ferry (too cool, I entered in the machine room). Sunday my host family and I went to Scarborough (really beautiful in the seaside!!!) in the east coast. During the next week we went to college again (where we met nice people from everywhere) and we went to Bradford, where we visited BBC Museum and we went to an awesome ice-skating ring! Oh, and we went to the cinema in Leeds too (we saw The Conjuring, nice) Last Saturday we went to York (York Minster and York streets are really beautiful and Chocolate Factory was an unforgettable taste experience). Day 22 was the last one, I wanted to cry in car while my "mum" picked me up to the college to say goodbye and return to London to take the plane to Spain. In London we saw Big Ben, London Eye, Hyde Park, St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace (we couldn't see London Bridge). Finally, we went to Heathrow and took the plane. In the airport my, now, new friends and I said goodbye to each eather and returned home. I will never forget it. VISIT WEST YORKSHIRE!!! Thanks for reading. Talk to you soon :)

Will I be able to prepare FCE by myself?

One of my 2014 targets is pass First Cambridge English Exam, nowadays I have level B1, will I be able to prepare the exam no taking any particular class?

 

Thank you!

Spanish educational system: Hi again, italki friends. Today I'm going to type you about the spanish educational system because I think it's an interesting topic to talk about and maybe one of you wants to study here. In Spain we start infantil school at the age of 3, three years after we start Primary School (6 years), after that, we start Secundary School (High school, 4 years). After those 4 years we can leave school and start working but the most of people want to continue and we start "Bachillerato" (2 years), those 2 years make us ready to enter in the University. When we have finished Bachillerato we have to pass a difficult acess exam (called PAU or Selectividad) about our last Bachillerato year. The exam has two parts, the first one is the general part, in which one we have to take 4 exams (5 in some Spain areas because they have 2 native languages) about general subjects (Spanish Literature, first language (the most of people choose English), Philosophy's/Spain History and finally a fourth exam about what we want (Maths, Arts, etc.)); the other exam part is the optative part, in which one we can do a maximum of 4 exams (each one worths a point, but we can take only 2 which worths 2 points, etc.) The final mark consists in: Bachillerato (6 points), General PAU part (4 points) and Optative PAU part (maximum 4 point, this part is optative so you don't have to take it if you don't want). Finally, depending on the mark you have achieved you will be able to enter in a career or not. For example, Medicine has a very difficult access, you have to have a 12/14 (aprox) to enter into. So you must take Optative PAU part to enter into (you need more than 10 points), but don't worry, there are other careers like Chemist or Physics in which ones you have to have a 5/14 (everybody can enter easily). Thanks for reading, if you have any doubt or if you want to know more just ask :) Type you soon!

Remind/remember What's the exactly difference? I think they are the same but I'm not sure.

It's raining dogs and cats!

Don't you think that's a weird and funny way to say it's raining a lot?

 

How do you say "it's raining too much" in your language?

Hi, italki! Hey there, italki friends! This is my first essay, I had never heard about italki before today. I'm recently 18 and now I feel I'm an adult (just kidding) I'm always thinking about my future and my life targets, one of those targets is learn four languages. Nowadays I can speak spanish and galician, my intention is make my english better and start learning french, germany... I didn't know how to talk about in this first text but since now I will try to type frequently about the different topics I consider. Thanks for reading me. Take care!