English Learners! Hello! I've been helping and giving out free informal tutorings to my foreign friends from Italki for quite some time now. For English learners, who've taken professional classes through Italki or from a traditional classroom setting, I would like to ask what are some of the methods that you found to be effective in terms of learning English because I would like to help my friends learn English in the most efficient way possible. I usually converse with them, sometimes give them quotes that they can ponder and talk about, give them short pieces of poetry that they can analyze and describe, and give them new vocabulary words to learn and use in a sentence. If you know any other effective methods, please let me know! Thank you!

German Speakers and Learners! Considering that a significant amount of Germans speaks English, do you think it is still worth it to learn German? If you are currently learning German, what are your motivations? How useful will learning German be if you will just travel around western Europe in the future, but not actually live there? Please share your thoughts!

English Learners! Hello! I've been helping and giving out free informal tutorings to my foreign friends from Italki for quite some time now. For English learners, who've taken professional classes through Italki or from a traditional classroom setting, I would like to ask what are some of the methods that you found to be effective in terms of learning English because I would like to help my friends learn English in the most efficient way possible. I usually converse with them, sometimes give them quotes that they can ponder and talk about, give them short pieces of poetry that they can analyze and describe, and give them new vocabulary words to learn and use in a sentence. If you know any other effective methods, please let me know! Thank you!

Preterito vs. Imperfecto for Spanish Speakers!! Hola a los gentes que hablan espanol! I have been studying the Spanish grammar for quite sometime now, and I always have a problem of differentiating between when to use preterito or when to use imperfecto. I know imperfect is used for continuous actions, while preterito are used for actions that have definite endings. However, some sentences will have actions that will not have a definite ending stated to it, but still be conjugated as preterito. It would be nice if you can please give me advice on how you know whether to use either one. Muchas Gracias! Dios les bendiga!