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First notebook entry: Introducing myself
I'm (I would suggest using the apostrophe that looks like this ---->' as opposed to the accent mark that looks like this ---->` when typing in English. I'm assuming your keyboard is different from the one I have, though) learning the English language because I want to work abroad as well as make friends from other countries. (You don't need a space between the last word in the sentence and the period. Also, I would have just said to put "and make friends from other countries", but you seem to want to emphasize that you have two different reasons to learn the language, you could put "as well as" here. Either way, you don't need "also to," since "and" or "as well as" let us know that you have an additional reason).
My native language is Arabic, (you put a comma here, since you have a new, separate sentence you are marking with "and I") and I'm proud to say I grew up in Egypt :). (There are multiple ways to say this, but it's more natural not to separate a sentence with "and" too many times--there are exceptions, though. If you started the sentence with "I grew up in Egypt..." then it would work better to say "and I'm proud of this", but since you began the sentence with "My native language is Arabic, and..." the sentence would sound too cluttered otherwise. I was assuming you're proud to have grown up in Egypt, but if you're trying to say you're proud that your native language is Arabic and that you grew up in Egypt, you would write the sentence as: "I am proud to say my native language is Arabic, and that I grew up in Egypt." There are other ways to write it, this is just the first I came up with :). Also, you don't have to capitalize words like "proud" or "language" or "in" unless they're in the title of something or at the beginning of a sentence. In this case, since you're just using the words in a sentence, you don't need to).
I enjoy painting, reading and listening to music :). (there's a silent "t" in "listen"...we have a lot of unexpected letters floating around in our words haha).
In all, it would look like this:
I'm learning the English language because I want to work abroad as well as make friends from other countries. My native Language is Arabic, and I'm proud to say I grew up in Egypt :). I enjoy painting, reading and listening to music :).
Hope that helped! Let me know if you have any other questions. I'm sure you'll make plenty of friends from abroad with your passion for language and art!
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