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My 1st Notebook for correction My friends and I had created a group on a social platform for improving our English language. We discuss words from newspapers to increase our vocabulary. At times we also discuss idioms and grammar relevant to that word. We play games like make smaller words from a big word, crosswords, give a word for, & so on. We keep our activities small but regular and consistent. The only problem with that social platform is that we cannot take up English speaking activities. I am shy as well as bad at speaking. When I was surfing for ways to improve English speaking, on one of the webpages I got to know about italki. I am happy to see that along with English I can also learn other languages here. I would like to learn as many languages as I can, but improving English and learning French and Gujarati is my priority. Thank you friends for reading my 1st notebook. (While correcting you can suggest better words,idioms or phrases too)

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My 1st Notebook for correction*

My friends and I had** created a group on a social platform for improving our English language.
We discuss words from newspapers to increase our vocabulary. At times we also discuss idioms and grammar relevant to that word.

We play games like make smaller words from a big word***, crosswords, give a word for***, & so on. We keep our activities small but regular and consistent.

The only problem with that social platform is that we cannot take up**** English speaking activities. I am shy as well as bad***** at speaking. When I was surfing****** for ways to improve English speaking, on one of the webpages I got to know## about italki. I am happy to see that along with### English I can also learn other languages here. I would like to learn as many languages as I can, but improving English and learning French and Gujarati is my priority.

Thank you friends for reading my 1st notebook.
(While correcting you can suggest better words,idioms or phrases too)


Roopali, the English here is excellent. I'll try to suggest a couple of options, but there's nothing to correct. (Note, I use U.S. style spelling and punctuation. You're probably educated in British conventions).

* On italki, saying "for corrections" isn't really necessary. Any time you write a Notebook entry, getting corrections is assumed.

** "had created" is good English. But "my friends and I created" is more casual and sounds more natural. (It's great to be able to use the past-participle when you need it. But simple past gets the point across here).  

*** The way this is phrased, it sort of assumed that "make a small word from . . ." and "give a word for . . ." are the names of well-known games or activities. I had no problem understanding the activities from the names you gave. If you want these presented as names of activities, you could capitalize the words and/or hyphenate the whole phrase ("Make-Smaller-Words-from-a-Big-Word"). But I think a more natural way is to turn it into a Gerund phrase ("games like making smaller words from a big word, crosswords, coming up with a word for . . .")

**** "cannot take up" is fine. The contraction "can't" is more natural in speech and in casual writing. Other choices for "take up" are "participate in" or "engage in" or simplest of all, "we can't do any English speaking activities."

***** "as well as bad at speaking" - This is fine (although I think you are probably exaggerating). Other options are "and not very good at speaking" or "and not very comfortable speaking."

****** "surfing" the web. It's obvious from the context, but I would add "the web" or "the Internet."

## (I got tired of typing so many *s!) "I got to know" - you could also say "I learned about"

### "along with English" could also be "in addition to English. . ."

This is great! I like what you're doing, and you're lucky to have a group of like-minded people to do it with!

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