Started out to learn a new language I tried to take up Polish at least three times. Speaking of witch, I started out to learn English even more times. I set some goals about learning Polish. For the first month I'm going to handle sounds and basics of pronunciation, pass one good textbook, learn around 2 000 words. I still work on my English and I can't dedicate 5 hours for Polish daily as I used to do with English. Polish is a whole lot easier than English for Ukrainian native speakers, so I guess I will be able to speak Polish in a month. I'm from Western Ukrainian. And there are a lot of people here able to speak Polish without learning it. The languages are pretty similar and Poland is very close. So, that's one of the motivators. I use paper flash cards for English. But now I don't have enough empty cards for Polish. Frankly I am a bit lazy to cut paper again. I decided to try Anki. Very famous popular program for remembering things, not just words. Maybe I'm not very comfortable with the program, but I see some disadvantages. I'm going to use Anki with Polish. But I don't think so about more complicated languages. I was going to tell you about today. But the note will be to long in this case. Thank you for reading and your corrections!

My town I really have no idea what to write and I decided to tell you about my little town. The town is located in Western Ukraine. Just around 35 thousands people live here. Central part of the town is pretty nice. Old town hall, benches, cobblestones, pigeons, young moms with strollers and babies. I like to sit on a bench and read a book. Unfortunately the ancient part of the center and of the whole town is ether destroyed or in poor state. There are underground tunnels but I've never been in them. We are located pretty close to the border with Poland. Because of that many people are smugglers. And it is not even outrageous here. A lot of formally unemployed people drive fancy cars and border guards live in great houses. We have a polish church. Used to have a lot of polish people. Now the majority of them are gone. I used to live outside my town for quite some time, but I had to come back. I'd like to live in a big city again so I'm going to move one more time. Thank you for your time and corrections!

I bought a smartphone for my wife Today was not good day from the very beginning. Very ineffective in terms of work and learning English. But the second part of the day was pretty good. I took an ordered smartphone from a warehouse of a delivery company. It's a gift for my wife on her birthday. But the birthday is only in a few months. So I have time to make up an idea of a new preset. In the second half of the day I did some work and worked on my English. I decided to improve my pronunciation. It's not extremely awful (I guess:) ) but I have to became better. Than I watched some videos on YouTube and added a dozen to watch later list. I did some other work as well. My list of undone tasks for today is almost empty. It's late a little. So I'm going to bed right away. Thank you for your time and your corrections! I appreciate that!

How do polyglots find time and resources Today I watched a video with one famous polyglot on YouTube. In the video he was talking about jobs for language learners. Learning a host of foreign languages is not about talent, gene, and supper methods. It's about interesting, but hard daily work. It requires hundreds and thousands hours. It’s very interesting for me how to quit job and to do anything language related. I see at least two benefits. I could do it for leaving and improve my skills at once. I would like to learn Spanish, Polish and German but to do it doing any other work is nearly impossible for short period of time. Speaker from the video says that teaching your mother tongue on ITALKI is one of the options. I’m not sure whether or not Ukrainian is enough popular for teaching. But I guess I should try. Thank your for your corrections!

Massive reading A few weeks ago a started out to walk with my baby every day for 2-4 hours. The baby is sleeping all the time, so I have enough time for doing something. I have already read two books in Russian, which I wanted to read for so long. Then I installed an application on my smart phone for reading books in English. I can click on unknown words, choose a translation and mark it for learning. I currently read "The Street Lawyer" novel. I thought it's going to be like Suits show. But it is not. The novel is about a lawyer who started to care about homeless. I got a question. Is "a street bum" word rude or not, just like homeless? I heard many times that reading books is very useful for language learners. But I used to prefer reading just articles. Now I deem reading novels is as effective as reading articles.

English of other learners One of russian YouTube bloggers that I watch published a video in which she speaks in English. She has been learning English for two years before coming to US and she already lives in there for around three years. I noticed a few unknown words in her speech and a few phrases than I would never use. Today she realised a new video about that English video. She confessed that her American tutor helped her out, corrected her script and advised her some words and phases to highlight some aspects of her story. (Maybe exactly those words and phrases were new for me) Also I spoke in English via Skype this week, made a few other comprehensions and I conclude the following. Yeah, I have to polish up my English a little, develop fluency and so forth. But my English is not so bad that I thought. I really misjudged myself. Have you ever had anything of the kind? Thank you for your time, for corrections! A appreciate that! Also I can help you with Russian and Ukrainian if you need it.

About me and my profession. Hi there! My name is Roman. I live in Ukraine, pretty close to border with Poland. I'm only 22 and I already have a wife and two beautiful kind. Alise - 3 years old. And Dominik - 3 months old. It might be kind of weird but I never worked on a job but myself. I provide for my family and we even used to live in Lviv (in 20 times bigger city then that one where I was born). I always change my profession and I cannot tell you what I currently am. I used to bo a programmer, copywriter, business owner, freelancer, I sold advertising in social media and a host of others. I realise I should focus up and be moving towards one purpose. But I still don't know who I wanna be. Now I am obsessed about learning English but my learning is periodically. I'd like to learn Spanish, German, Polish. But it's better to do one think at a time. Thank you for your time:-) ! Besides, I can help you with Russian and Ukrainian if you need.

Learning temporary I've been learning English for quite some time. It's more over one year now. But my learning is temporary. What do I mean? I can work hard on my English for a few weeks or months. Then I'm having a rest for a few weeks or months. No, I do not quit English. I work on my English, but it's a passive activity. I watch movies, videos, read articles and listen to podcasts. I don't learn new words, grammar, don't practice English. I wish I got started and hadn't stopped before I achieve my aim. Also I'd like to be able to speak Spanish. I don't need to be perfect in Spanish but I really need to be good in English. I'm going to start off leaning Spanish after I achieve a good level in English. I'm not happy of my attitude to learning process and I'd like to know two foreign languages. Does it sound strange?

How you can use ITALKI Notebook to improve your target language I was looking for a partner for speaking via Skype when I found ITALKI. Unfortunately I haven't found a partner yet. But I started using notes. I realized how I can take advantage of writing my own notes and of correcting notes of other people. My own notes. I write a note and then someone English speaker correct it. He or she point out my mistakes and tell me how to say properly. Usually these mistakes I can't correct only with Google or with textbook. Then I analyze what I wrote wrong and I make 5-10 sentences with a corrected grammar form. I repeat it a few times for a few days. This is very good way not to say wrong next time. Notes of others. I look for notes in Russian or Ukrainian. Ukrainian is my mother tang and Russian is like Ukrainian for me. But I have to tell that I prefer notes of native English speakers. Why? Because English is my target language and if I correct mistakes from people from UK, US, Canada I can figure out how they think. Usually people do mistakes because of their mother tang. They apply their speaking patterns in target language. For example in Russia people say "Добрый день" - Good afternoon. But when I started learning English I said "Good day" ones. Just because I translated "день" like "day". This is correct. But not in this context. I know Russian and Ukrainian. And I'm currently learning English. If you are interested in Russian or Ukrainian feel free to add me and hit me up. Thank you for your time!