First entry I registered in italki recently. Although I can understand almost any english I read, I can´t speech it fluently or have a natural conversation. When I read english, I can feel what the

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Antonio Kobashikawa

First entry I registered in italki recently. Although I can understand almost any english I read, I can´t speech it fluently or have a natural conversation. When I read english, I can feel what the sentence is saying, despite some words could be new for me. But when I hear english, I still mentally translate the sentence, or mentally write it for mentally read it. And it´s so tired. Also, often the words not sound I expected (I learned to read english without pronunciation as reference). Then, I saw in youtube a video where a nice teacher speaks so clear I can understand her (by the way, I could also understand almost all the inaugural speech of Donald Trump, suprise for me). She recommends italki to practice, so I am here. I hope write better and make friends to practice talking and enjoy the journey. Regards.

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First entry

I registered with italki recently. Although I can understand almost any English I read, I can´t speak it fluently or have a natural conversation.

When I read English, I can feel what the sentence is saying, despite some words being new for me. But when I hear English, I still mentally translate the sentence, or mentally write it to mentally read it. And it's so tiresome. Also, often the words sound unexpected (I learned to read English without pronouncing it).*

Then, I saw in youtube a video where a nice teacher speaks so clearly I can understand her (by the way, I could also understand almost all the inaugural speech of Donald Trump; a surprise for me). She recommends italki to practice, so I am here.

I hope to write better and make friends to practice talking and enjoy the journey. Regards.

*One can buy an English-English, or, English-Spanish dictionary with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription beside each English headword. In this way, you can learn the pronunciation. (one must first learn the IPA symbols, which is easy)

Very well written!

First entry

I registered in italki recently. Although I can understand almost any English text I read, I can´t speech it fluently or have a natural conversation.

When I read English, I can feel what the sentence is saying, despite not knowing some words. But when I hear spoken English, I still mentally translate the sentence, or mentally write it or mentally read it. And it´s so tiring. Also, sometimes the words don't sound as I expected (I learned to read English without pronunciation as a reference).

Then, I saw a video on Youtube where a nice teacher spoke so clear I can understand her (by the way, I could also understand almost all the inaugural speech of Donald Trump, surprise for me). She recommends italki to practice, so here I am.

I hope to write better and make friends to practice talking and enjoying the journey. Regards.

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