TRANSCRIPT START Hello there, guys! So this is going to be my third consecutive day of practice and I... Actually I didn't want to do it. It's like I had this block that kept nagging at me, I just didn't want to do it and this is exactly why I wanted to record this. Maybe it will help other learners out there. So when I think back to the days when I just started, started learning English. I remember exactly the same feeling! It's like... I don't even know what to call it! It's not even anxiety, but I guess some of it is there. But it's like your brain just doesn't want to be probed here, it doesn't want to do anything. But you have to... you have to break this feeling. You have to overcome it! And just record yourself every day to get better. TRANSCRIPT END I'd be delighted to get some pronunciation feedback, be it general, in-depth or otherwise. And as usual, please, let me know if my grammar is off or if I said something that no native speaker would have said. #help me correct

/* Transcript start Hello again there guys! I hope you're... you're all doing fine! So yesterday I, uh, I found out that my English wasn't as rusty as I had thought. And it's a good thing for sure but I... but I kind of feel like my tongue doesn't want to cooperate with me... when I'm speaking English and this... I just don't like this feeling. So I guess what I have to do here is to... just... you know... record something every day. Ideally every day, at least. But what's kind of holding me back here is that I... I find it very difficult to find things to talk about each and every day. So just hopefully I will come up with something here, like find a solution or something. In any case. Thank you for listening. I'll just go and make a transcription of this. */ transcript end It'd be nice if you let me know if there are any grammatical mistakes in this or if I said something that didn't sound okay. Also I'd really like some feedback on my pronunciation. Feedback of any kind, either general or in-depth, but I'd prefer the latter if I could choose. Lastly, sorry for that extra breathing noise, I'll have to do something about that, the mic is too sensitive it would seem. And making a transcription here is a massive pain in the butt.

Please, rate how intelligible you think it was. If there were any grammar mistakes, I'd appreciate it if you found the time to point them, I mean it's no fun doing that without having a script to the recording, but I don't know. I'm mostly interested if I'm speaking clearly enough to be easily understood.

So I opened the iTalki site on my desktop to write a notebook entry only to realize that I can no longer do that and I was basically voluntold to download the mobile app to get that fuctionality back. Why? Just why??? I mean it's a brave new world and dinosaurs like me are a dying breed, but I'd like the comfort of my actual keyboard and big screen back all the same. I don't like this forced "switch", I'd rather "mobile" stay "mobile" as in I can still use iTalki while on the go, there's no real need to kill off the desktop, the 2 can coexist. Am I the only one who feels like that?

Just some practice So I read this article today and apparently some South Korean scientists have found proof that the so called Dark Energy is not a thing. It's not the first time somebody made a bold claim like that, of course. But it looks like now we might have gotten something that can potentially gain a lot more traction than anything else before. I am in no way a scientist and, to be honest, this is way over my head but I like reads like that. They somehow help satisfy my natural curiosity. Anyway, back to the point at hand. First of all, from what I gathered the term Dark Energy was coined when some scientists had found that the universe seemed to not just expand but do it at an ever-increasing rate, as if there was some unknown force that drove this inflation. Naturally, that wreaked havoc on mathematical calculations within the Standard Model as they never concluded that anything like that force existed. So the scientist introduced a new variable into equation and, lo and behold, the calculations were all well and sound again. Subsequently, the new variable worked out well with some other mathematical mysteries and that helped tie it all together into the Standard Model again. So basically, it came off as circumstansial evidence that this force does indeed exist. Here, take the Noble Prize! But now those South Korean scientists have come up with a very convincing explantion as to why it was wrong to juggle numbers like that. Simply put, they state that the original calculations that started all this were based on erroneous data. You see, it is believed that magnitude (brightness) of a star going supernova is a constant, and that's why it's instrumental in measuring distance on the universal scale. In fact, this is what the esteemed collegues of our South Korean scientists used back in the day when they came to the conclusion that our Universe expands at an increasing rate. However, as discovered by out South Korean astronomers, it looks like this consonant is not a consonant at all, but in fact, the brightness of a super nova depends on the age of a galaxy the star has formed in and when you account for it the calculations work out just fine with the Standard Model, no Dark Energy adjustments are neccessary! So what does it mean? Well, apparently the rate at which the Universe becomes larger is not getting any higher. That's it! It came out a little lengthier than I'd planned. If there's anything that needs correcting, I'd appreciate it if you took the time.

Just some writing practice Okay, I'm here to write something in order to get some corrections from people who know the language well. The problem is, I don't even have a topic here and actually I'm just splurting out whatever's coming to mind at the moment. Still, the important thing here is that I AM writing. Hopefully I'll be able to come up with something more substansial next time. For now, please, correct if there's anything to correct, even if it's not precisely grammar. In fact I have sort of come to this idea that my English doesn't really sound English enough, it's hard to expain properly though. That's probably more of a feeling than anything really. To cut this short, if there's something that needs rewording I'd love to see how you'd choose to word that. Cheers! And thanks !

Frustration brewing This has always been a big problem for me and by this I mean listening comprehension when it comes to sung language. Yes, there were times when any kind of listening comprehension was basically impossible but I bravely undertook this challenge and I'm not afraid to say I've come out on top regarding spoken language. Yes, sometimes it can still give me some trouble here and there, especially if the speaker has an accent but it's nothing really and I can usually swiftly adjust in such situations. But songs, oh god. No they just refuse to give up. No matter how much or how hard I try, how many times I listen to them I can only make out a few lone words or phrases here and there but never to a point where I can say that I've at least managed to pick the general theme up. Funny enough, songs I can understand the most are performed in the rap genre and I don't really like this kind of music all that much. The most frustrating thing out of all this is that I've been in this predicement for more than a year now. I'm seriously starting to believe there's something wrong with me. I'll still keep beating my head against the wall like this just out of dumb, stubnorn principle. In any case I better wrap this up real quick as nobody likes listening to whining. I just really need to get this off my chest. And if you managed to read it through and not vomit and have some advice to give I'll gladly take it. Have a nice one there.

Need some help with a transcript of a short video Hello there. As the title says I'm having trouble making out some words in a short video. I made most of the work and I'm actually 99.9 % sure most of it is correct, but I have toubles with a few lines there. Mind you it's from a video game, but the subtitles option does not work for this one. I think it's because it's kind of an easter egg. Anyway, this is the transcript I've come up with: He's been gone for 5 years. Dark matter and dark energy constitute over 95% of the Universe. We're just a speck of light floating in the endless ocean of darkness... Every story finds its writer... {{{Wake has a bloody knife. He's alight with the flashlight. He smiles a wicked smile, he lies with blood on his face, eyes staring.}}} All of us have two faces. The one we wear for all to see and the face that lies beneath in the dark. The part in {{{ }}} is what I'm having troubles with. It plays from 1:09 to 1:18 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfItkvdBvj4 but feel free to check on the whole text if you have time. I'd really appreciate your help with this. Thank you all ahead of time.

School Today I decided to reminisce about my school days. What a great time it was!. It's funny but it seemed to be boring at the time but now that I'm thinking about it it evokes only warm pleasant feelings. Perhaps I had to think about it with hindsight to finally realize what a wonderful time it was. Only now I've come to appreciate what my first teacher gave me. And if the last phrase seems strange to you, you should first know that Russian children have only one teacher until they are 4th or 5th grade. That teacher teaches kids a wide variety of subjects, that's why I'm so greatful to my first teacher, she taught me a lot. My best friend has been so since the first grade. And I'm so happy to see that he's a man I can call a real friend, a buddy! We've helped each other so many times and more importantly none of use has ever refused to help the other, no matter how big our problems were. So I'm quite sure he can say all those things about me as well. And of course, as a kid you practically have no real responsibilities. You don't have to worry about money, you don't have to think of putting food on the table, you're not responsible for anyone but yourself and anything like that. Hell sometimes I want to go back there and become a kid again :) But it's when I scrap that thought because now I have a lot of people to care about and I like it very much that way. Going back to being a kid would mean to lose all those people, which I absolutly hate to happen. So I'd rather stay where I am now and make sure I won't lose them :) Thanks you for having read this text so far :)