Rising from the ashes!
Hello everyone!
My name is Carlos and I'm learning english by myself. Helping me with books, videos and a little help of my friends and teachers, all self-taught.
I made my italki account on February 2015, but I have only written 2 articles on my notebook. However, I'm planning on using this page more and more because of a reason that I am going to explain at this moment.
I sterted using iTalki with the goal of find friends from all over the world who are learning english like me. But no one added me to skype or Facebook, and I didn't know why! I asked myself "If they say that they are searching for friends so that they can learn spanish (which is my native langauge)... Why they don't want to add me if that's the reason they are here? WTF!" Hahahaha. Then, I came with an answer, somewhat obvious: they don't want to accept me as a friend, maybe, just maybe, I haven't written articles, and, maybe because of that, they think I don't really care about studying a foreign language...
That's the reason I am going to write more and more, in order to people can see I'm very serious on this, and so that I can easily convince them to be friends on Skype and we can talk over there and be happy al last! Hahahaha.
Thanks for reading this. Your corrections will be truly appreciated. Thanks a lot!
P.s. According to me, this article has a few mistakes. But if not, that's because I decided to write it very fast and without overthinking the words I was going to use.
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Rising from the Ashes!
Hello everyone!My name is Carlos and I'm learning English by myself. Helping me are books, videos and a little help of my friends and teachers, all self-taught.
I made my italki account on February 2015, but I have only written 2 articles in my notebook. However, I'm planning on using this page more and more because of a reason that I am going to explain at this moment. (right now)
I started using iTalki with the goal of finding friends from all over the world who are learning English like me but no one added me to Skype or Facebook, and I didn't know why! I asked myself "If they say that they are searching for friends so that they can learn Spanish (which is my native langauge)... Why they don't want to add me if that's the reason they are here? WTF!" Hahahaha. Then I came up with an answer, somewhat obvious: if they don't want to accept me as a friend, maybe, just maybe, I haven't written articles, and, maybe because of that, they think I don't really care about studying a foreign language...
That's the reason I am going to write more and more, in order for people to see that I'm very serious about this, and so that I can easily convince them to be friends on Skype and we can talk over there and be happy at last! Hahahaha.
Thanks for reading this. Your corrections will be truly appreciated. Thanks a lot!
P.s. According to me, this article has a few mistakes. But if not, that's because I decided to write it very fast (quickly) and without overthinking the words I was going to use.
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Thank you. I will do that: be more participative :D
I don't think this text is large, but I also will shorten the next ones.
Thank you again!
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Hi Carlos, welcome back! I've just returned recently, too.
Some things that I've noticed while using iTalki-
A lot of times people are more willing to correct shorter notebook entries, so you'll get more feedback if you split a long one into a couple shorter ones overtime. And the best way to make friends to give feedback and correct others people's entries. LOTS of them. Eventually people will recognize you and reach out to you!
Personally I usually only add friends if I see that they're active on this site (have been here for a while, have written a lot of notebook entries, are correcting others, etc) and only if they're learning my language/speak a language that I'm learning as well.
Of course, you're still going to have people who want nothing to do with you (happens to me all the time!) but keep trying and you'll find a few who want a genuine exchange!
So good luck and don't get discouraged! :)
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