Tips to speak english fastest Any advice on what to do for a fastest speaking. Right now I'm practicing lyrics of rap music. Any other advice? Thanks

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I am back Hello italki people, I am back here to keep with my atudying. I've been doing a bit of everything during the last six months and I think I got some progress in my abilities. I make mistakes but I think I am better to explain myself and my ideas, discuss business topics, answer emails, attend meetings and all that kind of stuff. I this time I am studying grammar again and listening an I would like to share what I'm doing to improve =Listening I order to improve my listening I use to what videos on youtube. I use the subscriptions so I get new videos from people that I am familiar with. I have a large list of people that I follow on youtube I would like to talk/write about them in future italki entries so I will not reveal my subscriptions now. Basically what I do is to watch one hour daily of a menu of different people that upload videos. Some of then speak very fast but the good part is that they use common language so this is good. In terms of listening that is what I'm doing now. Let's talk about grammar =Grammar I'm the kind of person that look for the easiest way to complete a task. Since grammar is a complex topic to study I'm always looking new ways to study grammar and keep motivated with my studying. What I'm doing now is to create mind maps. I like to create mind maps because I learn while I create the map and then I learn when I review the map. My process is first at all I get a book of grammar. Then I create the mind map with an application like mindmanager and then I study my map. I start my studying collapsing all the nodes and then I ask to myself the meaning of a question. i.e. there is a collapsed node with the questions. What is a noun?, then I expand the node to look the answer but before I ask to myself the answer. =Speaking This is something that I'm doing and I think is giving me good results. I record videos of 5 to 10 minutes with my camera. In this videos I explain a very simple topic like. How I brush my teeth. I start with a introduction like. "Hello this is Mario and today I will explain you how I brush my teeth", then I develop the conversation. I'm always try to keep the conversation going. If I made a mistake I try to continue saying something like "sorry, I wanted to say.." and then I continue until explain the idea or get drained of ideas. =Writing I write emails in English all day in my work. Well, this is a summary of what I'm doing. See you around.

Today is my birthday Today is my birthday, I was born in Mexico City in 1984, but for some reason I can't remember Mexico City at all, when I turned 4 years my entire family changed of location, and then I was raised at Tabaco Mexico. That is the city that I remember in my childhood, it's the city in which live most of my friends, at this time I am not living in Tabasco, and because of that, now I see the folklore that is over there. Here in Monterrey the traditions are quite different, overthere in Tabasco you can see more vegetation and colours, and there are somenthig called Feria Tabasco, which it is like a fair but it has a lot of folkorical activities like dances and performances, I left you a link to a flickr album so you can see what I mean when I said that I miss the colours. http://www.flickr.com/photos/expotabasco/sets/72157629890924787/?page=2

Hello there all you people again I traveled the pass weekend, I flew back to my house and I saw something interesting in the airplane. There was a couple of girls that were traveling with their parents, it appears to me that the mother was a American and the father was a Mexican guy, and I could ear that this girls with an age about twelve could speak english and spanish perfectly. After that I thought... I would be nice to be able to learn English and Spanish at that young, but unfortunately my parents are both Mexican so I writing this entry in order to improve my English :)

This gonna blow your mind I heard this phrase 'This gonna blow your mind', and I wonder if blow your mind is a rude expression,bad word or a not polite expression. Thanks for your time.

Type down, does this term exist? Does the term type down can be used for write down something with a keyboard of a computer? I mean, sometimes people say write down to write into a piece of paper whit a pen to take notes or whatever but I wonder if I the term Type Down is used when you want to take notes with a computer. Thanks and regards.

Type down Does the term type down can be used for write down something with a keyboard of a computer? I mean, sometimes people say write down to write into a piece of paper whit a pen to take notes or whatever but I wonder if I the term Type Down is used when you want to take notes with a computer. Thanks and regards.