My first notebook on Italki. Hello. I'm Maximas. I'm from Costa Rica. I took english courses for a long time and it's bored, I got headache and in the audiobook people spoke like robots and unnaturally. First of all, English for me started out as a way of potentially improving my socio-economic position in the world, but has now evolved more into a passion. I think it's a waste of time studying grammar, I played english games that helped me in grammar a lot without studying. I watched an anime with english dubbed without subtitles and it motivates me to learn more english, When I watched the anime, I heard them speaking naturally and very different than the english I heard before but I like the way they speak and nowadays I can understand almost 90 percent of what they are saying.. Now I'll have free time to practice my english pronunciation a lot. PS: IPA s@ck. :)