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Only one second language.
I was working in Paris few weeks ago. I use to go there once in a while and I love it. It's amazing how the city surprises you in every corner, in every small restaurant or in any narrow and charming street...
It seems you can find anything you want in Paris, but it's strangely difficult to find people who speak in English... It seems they don't like it and even they get mad if you try.
I love French, I love how it sounds so romantic and musical, and I'd really like to understand it and speak it fluently. But I can't. When I try find the right word, only English words come to my mind, and it's funny and a little frustrating and I stand there feeling like a poor "only one second language" boy.
10 มิถุนายน 2015
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I'm a painter
I'm a painter which is different than being an artist. At least, in the way the word artist seems to be understood today. Everybody can be an artist and any expression, joke or clever idea can be named art if it's at the right place. (a gallery, museum or Art Fair)
Maybe I sound like an old man complaining of what crazy youth does.
But when you work, day by day at the loneliness of your studio, seems like there a big distance between you and those famous artist that appear at the news.
I think I like to be just a painter.
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Tramontana
This weekend we were beaten by strong wind bursts. They call it "Tramontana" (beyond the mountains) and it's a cold and turbulent wind that blows over Catalonia from the northeastern.
Sometimes, it blows during several days affecting both the surge of the sea and the tranquility of people.
They say there's is a high indication of mental disorders in this region population because the Tramontana. I don't know if it's true, but it's a strange and unconfortable sensation to feel this wind blowing over you.
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Springtime
I live in a small town at the north of Barcelona, near to the french border. I've been here for a year more or less and it's been quite different from living in Barcelona.
To learn how to live with more time and slow your vital rhythm... just connecting with your internal sense of time... It's been really interesting
Suddenly something as simple as see the morning light shining outside your window can open a reflection about time and the way we perceibe it.
I didn't had too much time when I lived in Barcelona, to think about time and this kind of stuff...
That's what I wanted to say
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Thursday morning
Thursday morning and I'm sittting in front of my laptop trying to find something to write. I'd like to post something interesting or funny but good ideas doesn't come to my mind.
I have to make an effort if I want to make a progress. Sometimes it seems to me that I'm not getting better as I wish.
But here I am, doing my homework and writing a few words.
Good Thursday for all!!!!
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Stage fright.
Sometimes, when I meet English spoken people with whom I have the chance to speak, I go blank.
I start to feel shy and nervous and to find the right words and start a conversation seems to be an imposible work. Stage fright. But I know a lot of words and gramma rules, I understand almost everything I hear and I also can get those no evident meanings of a sentence. But it seems that I don't know nothing when it's time to speak.
What can I do to overcoming my nervousness?
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Première note.
Mon nom est Paulo et je suis un peintre. Je suis du Chili, mais vivants dix ans de l'Espagne.
Je travaille dans une entreprise qui transporte œuvres d'art. Je voudrais apprendre un peu de français pour mon travail.
Merci à tous
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speaking in a real context
Last week I was travelling around Europe. I work as a freelance for a company that ship artworks and produce exhibitions, and they asked me to carry an collect paintings along France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.
It was a very interesting experience, especially because I had to practice my English skills in a real context. I felt afraid at first, and it seemed that I couldn't find the right words, however, the more I went speaking the more confident I felt.
I really felt people wanted to comunícate and they ignored my mistakes to get the meaning of what I was trying to say.
It was a very nice surprise to see that I'm getting better, so now I'm more keen to keep on learning.
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focusing on process
This morning I've read some Italki member entry about his 400th post. And I felt envy... a good kind of envy, but envy at last... It makes me think about how different can be your work when you focus on the process instead of the goal.
I mean, if I only think in my aim of speak a new language, with a perfect pronunciation and greats writting or speaking skills, maybe I will be unsatisfied and always feeling uncompleted.
But if I focus on my learning process, and all the little conquests of everyday, I would enjoy the trip and maybe it would be easier to feel satisfied and motivated to go for more.
What do you think about it?
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Afraid to talk
I've came to Italki two weeks ago and I think I've improved my writing skills very much, but I'm still afraid to talk. I know there's no reason for that but I guess there are too many people who feel the same.
Why it's so hard to feel that people doesn't understand you?
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