O dono do caderno pode remover comentários? Notei o sumiço de um comentario que fiz e não sei se o dono do caderno pode fazer isso já que no meu caderno há algumas correções mas nenhum comentário. Penso que pode também ter havido denúncias porque eu havia colocado um palavrãozinho de nada...se foi isso mesmo queria saber que tipo de adulto se ofende com a palavra 'cacete' a ponto de fazer isso. Ou será que o registro de risada 'kkkk' faz o Italki achar que há promoção da Ku Klux Klan? Agente separa um tempo, se dá ao trabalho de explicar algo para depois ir para a lata do lixo. Lamentável.

Off course the world is a disc - I don't feel I'm on a ball. Hello, nice people from around this beautiful flat disc called earth! I know the hipe of this subject has diminished but since I've got in contact with this movement not a long time ago I'm kinda addicted to it. Not sure why but I find rather interesting, not the 'theory' itself but the fact that so many people invest their time and reputation as sane people to embrace something that improbable and inconsistent. We could measure the diameter of Earth's crust more than two thousand years ago in ancient Greece. Aristophanes, I think that was his name, used only two sticks and some math to get to the conclusion we live in a ball 40000 kilometres wide. Fast forward a lot of time, past the space exploration, the moon landing, the GPS system and many other realizations and all of the sudden arises from the depth of internet an army determined to refute the conspiracy that hides the real shape of the Earth. A few days ago I've watched a documentary on Netflix about them - they're so entertaining! throughout the vídeo I could feel at least a little bit empathetic toward them, they might only be somewhat needy and perhaps need something to feel brighter than everybody else at least once in their life. The holes in the theory are really big, and I've learned a lot of physics from the material that refutes their assertions, like the movement of the planets on the sky, the law of perspective, lenses of cameras, etc. I would like to highlight 2 moments in that documentary. The flat-earthers came up with two very clever tests - one that uses a super expensive and sensible laser gyroscopic that should be able to detect the earth spin and another one consisting in three aligned posts with holes at the same hight, those holes, therefore, should disprove the curvature while a light beam was cast through those three holes. Their reaction to the results is priceless. Are many rabbit holes in youtube where you can get a glimpse of very strange conspiracies, like the moon would be a hologram, it's a fake object, plains are disguised demons, the sky is fake, dinosaurs had never existed and many others. If you're like me grab a popcorn bucket and delight yourself with ingenious people revealing the secrets of the world from their couch. Next entry I will talk about what worries me in that way of reasoning and the effect we can already see taken place in my nation. Flat-earthers has conquered the power in Brazil and that's when it stops being funny.

back to italki Hey everyone! It's been a mess the last two years - my partner got pregnant and as I wondered how long I would endure (can I use 'hold up' here?) her complaints, fears, doubts and lots of emotional breakdowns, happens that I had no idea whatsoever what that child would do to my life. Had never aspired to be dad but have started to enjoy the idea since the test went positive, but nothing could really prepare me to the changes I would face (and am facing since). As I said is a mess, but something new was born inside me alongside her, something that has the better of me and is tireless in the urge to praise and protect that adorable little creature. Intend to share some of that experience here soon. Tchau.

My first Penicillin G shot After 7 days suffering with fever i decided go to the doctor. He made some questions, examined my throat and said I had an infection, therefore I would get some antibiotics. Not big deal, right!? Then I go to ambulatory where they've got my blood sample and I waited there for my shot, one dose of 'Benzetacil", I think you might call it "Penicillin G Benzathine Injection". Well, that's the part I wanna tell. I've never had that thing before, and trust me, it's a bitch. I was standing, half of my butt exposed, and felt the worst injection of my life. It was like get a Kilogram of cement into my system, burning as it went deep, shreding my tissue and letting my limbs numb. I cursed a lot, like "oh my gosh, what is this devil?", "shit, what are you doing to me?", and as i went out of the small area isolated by curtains I've noticed all the patients laughing at my response. I didn't care, it was over for me, i was going home.

parts of books that dictionary won't help me. Can anyone please? I've been reading a lot of Connolly's series (12 out of 15 so far) and here are some segments that i can't get. By the way, which is the best way to refer to pieces of texts, quotes? parts? extracts? 1 "Tommy Morris family had always been Two-toilet Boston Irish" What can one infer from irish people living in boston that have two toilets? 2 "You Look like you could do with some feeding up" It seems that the character was too slim, but sounds so strange that "do with". Wouldn't be better like this "you could do some feeding up"? 3 "we gave you all the information required for a successful pre-emptive sale" What is pre-emptive? 4 " He was smart enough not to keep to significant a stash at his home, so that any raid would net possession, but not possession with intent of supply" Is it normal to use net as a verb? can i say it anytime to replace the verb to grab or to find? I have many more, but don't want to abuse of your good will.

What i love about my Kindle What can i say? i truly love it for so many reasons, let's see some: - I can read while laying on the bed holding the book with only one hand, so it won't tire my hands keeping the pages open; -the battery runs for ages (weeks to be precise) -I can change the font, size, margin the way i want; -I can read without using my hands (i will teach you - rest your head on your pillow, roll and stay on the shoulder facing your partner, put it horizontally on the mattress and secure it on the head of your partner and done!) -i can buy books that are not sold in my country and download it in few seconds and cheaper than import them, as i used to do with Collonny's Charlie Parker series. -I can create my own e-books very easily from essays, news, articles and read them in a much more pleasant way than monitors or cel phones. - i can check the dictionary just pressing the word on the screen. Also i can choose whether i want the translation or the meaning in its own language. there's more, but i will stop here otherwise this entry will be regarded as amazon's propaganda.

start training BJJ and Muay Thai at the age of 33. After one year training muay thai i decided start training gracie jiu jitsu (as we brazilian call it). Has not been easy at all -from 3 hours per week to 8 hours per week my body is obviously getting a lot of damage, i feel a lot of pain in my arm that has already decreased its mobility. Oh, it sucks the inevitable process of decay, but know what?! It worth it, now i can take my beers without so much guilt, i can feel myself more energized, more powerful and also give me skills more useful than those i get playing on line games. It has taken some of the dullness of my life, and although i will never train enough to make money out of it or be famous, at least i have something to challenge myself. i'll try to share some of that experience here and use italki more to get the level of fluency i want. God, use another language is much harder than get choked or take some punches in the face.

In, on, at. In portuguese we have only one word doing that job ( no/na), and although I can clearly understand the use to physical objects, like in the car, on the ground, at the station, when it comes to other forms beyond the physicality it gets really uncertain to me. Please correct these uses below. It's at the page 34; It's in my mind; it is in the past; On my birthday; in my death bed; At the moment; In my personality. Thanks for any enlightenment.

Mindblowing ( due to overheat) After only two classes with natives I could get a realistic magnitude of my lack of skills to speak. Although I've got good feedback on my accent and pronunciation from both of them, I couldn't get rid of that feeling of being reduced to a little boy. It sucks, it is as if we were trapped insided ourselves, we keep our self awareness but are stripped from the tools that allow us to present our feelings, our ideas, our thoughts beyond our own minds. Shannon, one of the tutors i've had, said something interesting she had read in a book about learning languages - apparently, the only explanation to why children learn languages so easely its due to their lack of self awareness and desconsideration for their mistakes. Even If that's really the only difference, still is easier to say then do ( I mean be like the children, feeling free to make mistakes). I felt that are factors that can worsen or abate the discomfort caused by the interaction with strangers in their mother tong and not knowing anything from their background but their nationality. Age and gender has a great role in this. The female tutor increased that sense of being a little child, largely because even without the language disparities, as far as I know, attractive and intelligent woman have that natural power over man - reduce them to little boys. As I write this, I have found an answer to an issue: why a write better than I speak? It's obvious- time! The cursor blinking in front of me says it all. When speaking, i've realized that the brain is overloaded with 3 tasks: the content we intend to externalize, the rules and the set up of the foreign language and the acess to the vocabulary needed to give substance to the first two. And to keep doing those 3 while you are already speaking let no room to elegance and grace, simply there's no time. I am feeling that this next and final challenge to master a second language will the greatest of all that preceded, especially not having to use it everyday all day long. Few hours of Italki per month won't be enough, tutors can't have me by hand through this, they can even push me, but I will have to hunt up and achieve it by myself, it really seens a private quest. Cheers for all the humans that has conquered that feat before me. Time and patience will show whether I'll be one of them or not.