Do you like to read? What do you prefer, fiction or non-fiction? Nowadays I only read books that are written in the languages that I am learning, I think that reading a book that is appealing to you and is written in the language you want to learn is a great way of immersing yourself in the language itself. In general I prefer to read non-fiction, autobiographies of successful people and books about how to improve at something I want to refine my skills at are the most appealing books for me by far. What about you? What is your favourite writing genre? What type of books do you think are the most beneficial to a language learner in order to improve his fluency?

One of the greatest events in my city. Today I am going to talk about "Arde Lucus", a celebration that takes place in mi city in June every year. It lasts three days, during which nearly everybody dresses up in a Roman costume. There are a lot of activities to do and assist to during these three days, like assisting to a lot of representations about the way of living of the Romans, if you have kids you can bring them to a lot of activities and you can even marry somebody in the Celtic way. I always have a lot of fun in this celebration because I really like to see everybody dressed like a Roman, the weather is usually good, there are a lot of amusing things to do and everybody is in a great mood. I know that Arde Lucus isn't like Oktoberfest or any really big well-known event, but if you are going to visit a nearby city or my city someday I would definitely recommend you to assist to it, because is it incredibly fun!.

The importance of speaking frequently through the different levels of proficiency in a language I have recently started learning German. From my point of view when you are a beginner it is very important to speak frequently, I think that in a hour of speaking I learn way more German than in 3 hours of independent study. In my opinion, when you are at an intermediate level (b1-b2), you can still benefit a lot from speaking frequently, maybe not as much as when you are starting to learn a language, but you can improve way faster if you do several speaking sessions per week than if you weren't doing speaking sessions with frequency. When you are between B2 and C2 I think that speaking regularly is still important, but I think that you are not going to get the same results as in the beginner levels relying heavily on speaking, because I believe that there are certain aspects of the language that you are not going to learn by spending a lot of time practising speaking like very difficult grammar concepts and you need to spend more time practising other aspects of the language like your writing skills. What do you think about the importance of speaking your target language on a regular basis?

Have you ever travelled alone? I have never travelled alone, whenever I travel I always do it with my friends, however, I would like to travel on my own to one foreign country at least in my life, just for experiencing something new in regard to travelling. What do you think about the pros and cons of travelling by yourself? I am going to talk about the possible advantages of travelling alone, because If I talk about both the upsides and downsides of it I would have to do a really long essay. First of all, you can visit whatever place you like and attend the events you like, of course if you are travelling with more people you can do whatever you want on your own, but for me, at least, it is more enjoyable to be the majority of the time with my friends when I am travelling with them, because I want to do things together in order to experience new things and have really funny anedcotes to talk about in the future. The second advantage would be that you will be more willing to talk with the locals, because if you don't talk to some people at least during the whole travel you will spend the entire travel without socializing even a bit, and at least for me It wouldn't be as half as funny and enjoyable as a great travel could be, you know, when I am in a foreign country I want to meet people, know more about the culture of the country and even practise my language skills given that the local language is a language that I like and I am interested in learning.

Negative things about technology Technological advances in general are a great thing, most of them have improved our lifes, making things easier for us. For example I think that smartphones are a great thing and they have improved our lives allowing us to communicate with our friends and family in a more efficient way than we are used to. However, I sometimes would like to live in a world without smartphones. There are a lot of people who spend a lot of time checking their mobile phones everyday, people who are very dependant on their smartphones. Let me give two examples of how this can affect our daily lives in a negative manner: I have seen a lot of people having a coffee with their friends in a bar and who had payed way more attention to their mobiles phones than to his/her friends, moreover I have seen people attending to a concert or to a party who were totally focused on taking photos of the event instead of trying to have fun and enjoy the experience with their friends. I find this kind of sad, I think that a lot of people should practise a bit of moderation in this matter. What do you think about it?

Something to think about. I have recently read something that at least for me is quite interesting and astounding, I am reading a book in which the author talks about a man who treats cancer diagnosed patients and helps them dealing with the disease and getting the most out of their lifes. This guy says that when a person is diagnosed with terminal cancer by their doctor, the attitude of the cancer diagnosed person towards life completely changes. He/She starts to pursue his/her lifelong dreams, starting to do the things he/she always wanted to do, and stop worrying about a lot of things than before being diagnosed with the disease were important for them. The most incredible thing is that a lot of these people, after starting to pursue their dreams, going after what they want in life, ignoring some things that weren't as important as these people think in the past and paying attention to other more important aspects of their lifes like friends, family and lifelong passions, get over cancer. What do you think about it?, Can bad life choices like working at a job that you don't really like or neglecting other important aspects of your life like your dreams and the important persons of your life increase your possibilities of getting a terminal disease?

Nothing in particular. Ich studiere Deutsch seit vier weeks. Ich wohne in Lugo, ich bin vierundzwanzig jahre alt. Ich stehe um 8 Uhr morgens auf, ich shlafe um 12 Uhr nacht ein. Ich reise gerne, Ich möchte nach Deutschland reisen, Ich möchte in Deustchland arbeiten Wann schlafen Sie ein?, Woher kommst du?, Wo wohnst du?, Wier alt bis du?

Staying in your city or moving to a new one? I live in a very small city and I am a bit fed up of it, of course it has great advantages like that I have very good and close friends, I know a lot of cool people and you can go to pretty much every place on foot, but nowadays I am just looking for a change in regard to the city I live. I am sure that If I would live abroad someday I will miss great things of my country, like my great friends, family and even my city, which I really like despite of being a bit fed up of living in it. But that's the way things are, you can't have the advantages of living abroad and the upsides of living in your home city at the same time. I would like to visit a lot of foreign countries, work in a few of them, improve the languages I am learning nowadays or perhaps even learning a few more and live new experiences, so If I want to do these things, I will have to move abroad for a while at least, although I think that I will return to my home city after living abroad for a while. What do you think about? Do the upsides of living abroad in a city you really like compensate the cons of it, like not seeing your closest friends on a regular basis? Have you ever lived in a foreign country for a while and wind up really missing certain aspects of your home country or city?

Self-defense In the past I took kickboxing classes, I joined it in order to learn basic combat skills at least. You never know what is going to happen to you in any given day.., they were ok, I learned some techniques and had a good time attending the classes. I noticed one thing, they gave me a lot of confidence, one thing that can help you in every aspect of your life. I recently discovered Krav Maga, watched a few videos and I am even reading a book about it. I find it very interesting and very applicable to the street. There isn't any Krav Maga class available in mi city, but next year I am going to move to a city in which there are Krav Maga instructors, so I think that I am going to join a class. I think that joining a martial artist or combat skills class can yield incredible benefits: the boost of confidence It gives you is simply amazing, apart from that it helps to keep yourself fit, releases endorphins and like I said you never know If you someday will have to apply what you know in the real life. What do you think about?, do you think that It is worth it?