Hi! I would really appreciate if someone can give me a hand with a question. I'm not sure about the use of "by" in the next sentence: I analyze voice data using this tool. I analyze voice data by using this tool. Are both correct? What is the difference? 🤔 Thanks 😊

Yes, I have! Solo trips feel great. They are an opportunity to step outside of your comfort zone, because you have to plan, resolve drawbacks by your own, talk to people you don't know, etc. It's a good way to spend time with yourself and grow as a human being.

Hi! There are some apps that phones already included, but if I think about apps that I decided to download, I will say my must-have apps are WhatsApp and the app of my bank.

When I was a child I used to read "Cuentos de mitía Panchita" by the Costa Rican writer Carmen Lyra. My favorite character was a rabbit called "Tío conejo". This character is a very smart trickster who all the time is trying to take advantage of the situacions for his own benefit. As you can imagine, these stories wasn't very educational for kids. That is because the stories were collected from the oral tradition by the author and they didn't have a pedagogical criteria. However, I can't deny they were very good for kids imagination.

I was doing the exercise about how people celebrate birthdays in my country but I lost the question! Haha there's the text that I wrote: People in Costa Rica celebrate birthdays with their friends, partners, or family. I think we don't do nothing unusual 🤔... Some people like going for a short trip, having a small party, or going out for a dinner. People is used to giving gifts, eating cake, and singing "Feliz cumpleaños" during a birthday celebration.

Career fields are experimenting huge changes because of technology. As I see it, the combination of Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence will be a great career field in the future. Computational Linguistic and Natural Language Processing are becoming more popular because companies and governments need to process linguistic data of consumers and citizens. Also, because of the speech revolution! That means people are using voice assistants, voice commands, and voice messages a lot; as a result, companies are trying to resolve bias problems and developing better models of speech recognition and text-to-speech. For those reasons, I think Linguistic are going to be a great career in the future.

I normally visit Italki! I like to practice my writing in this platform. Teachers are very nice and they always help you to improve your punctuation, grammar and vocabulary. There are also language learners from all over the world, so you can make friends and practice conversation. 👌🏽🎉

I'm not really sure about the reason why in some places girls and boys are educated in different schools. From my point of view, if the reason is just related to sexism, that is not correct. School is one of the most important places to learn how to interact properly and respectfully with others. In this sense, I think schools that are diverse represents better how the world is, and create a more realistic environmental to learn how to respect others.

From my perspective, technology is just a tool. The good or bad use of that tool is our responsibility as human beings. In this sense, technological advances are not bad or good per se, but the way how people use that new knowledge could have positive or negative consequences.