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Running a marathon This is my first entry. I'll try doing it well. Learning a new language is like running a marathon. Not everyone is in fit for running a large distance. But if you can believe it, you can achieve it. Maybe, you are not a great athlete now, but you can turn into an excellent athlete if you want. I just know a way: training, training and training. You can have the best world's teacher, you can study in a famose high school even you can have a lot of tools near your eyes, but all these things would lose their worth if you are not willing to take them. Wake up! The best moment is now, yesterday has passed and tomorrow will be later. Whom are you waiting? Nobody will force you to study a new language, knowing a new culture or travelling abroad. It doesn't exist a magic formula for learning thousands of words just for one day. But pay attention, if you raise your hand will be able to touch your dream. You writes your own path, you must to keep working, nobody says it was easy. It will have occasions which you will want to stop, you will want to take a rest, to have a drink, to sleep... but you have really thought in many times how would be that moment. You want to see yourself there, you want to be proud of yourself. You know it will come a day when you'll be able to say: "I have finished this marathon". I feel like a professional coach after writting this little story. In fact, I have just discovered that I could become a good motivational coach, what do you think about it? Anyway, I hope you are enough motivation to keep learning, from the opposite I think about leaving my short career as a motivational coach before starting it. Here we go!

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Good job overall.  I highlighted some spelling corrections and words that would fit better as well as some comments in parenthesis to explain some parts.  I underlined parts where I re-ordered part of a sentence.


Running a marathon

This is my first entry. I'll try doing it well.

Learning a new language is like running a marathon. Not everyone is in fit for running a large distance. But if you can believe it, you can achieve it. Maybe, you are not a great athlete now, but you can turn into an excellent athlete if you want. I just know a way: training, training and training. You can have the best world's teacher, you can study in a famous high school you can even (the order is the opposite from Spanish "aun puedes") have a lot of tools nearby , but all these things would lose their worth if you are not willing to take them.

Wake up! The best moment is now, yesterday has passed and tomorrow will be too late (its more common to say, "tomorrow will be too late" even though "tomorrow will be later" can be grammatically correct) . Who are you waiting for (Technically it is grammatically correct to say, "For whom are you waiting?", but "Who are you waiting for?" is more common)? Nobody will force you to study a new language, know a new culture or travel abroad. A magic formula doesn't exist for learning thousands of words just for one day. But pay attention, if you raise your hand you will be able to touch your dream. You write your own path, you must to keep working, nobody said (this expression is usually in the past tense in English.  It is more common to say "nobody said it was easy" than "nobody says it is easy") it was easy.

There will be occasions when you will want to stop, you will want to take a rest, to have a drink, to sleep... but you have really thought many times how that moment would be. You want to see yourself there, you want to be proud of yourself. You know a day will come when you'll be able to say: "I have finished this marathon".

I feel like a professional coach after writing this little story. In fact, I have just discovered that I could become a good motivational coach, what do you think about it? Anyway, I hope you have enough motivation to keep learning, from the opposite perspective I think about leaving my short career as a motivational coach before starting it.
Here we go!

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