How Instagram Helps To Learn More It's been a while since I've last written anything here. Nothing has changed, though, I'm still studying English. In fact, I do more and more everyday, I think I am addicted to it. My passion for languages never wears thin (maybe you can suggest more correct expression here?) I decided to take part in a challenge on Instagram, called "100 days of languages". I'm already on my 26th day and I love it! The idea is that I choose one or more languages I want to improve and I dedicate at least fifteen minutes a day to work on them. I started with English, French, German and Italian. For some time I was trying to learn some Spanish too, but very quickly I understood that it's a bit too much right now. Maybe in future, because the language is fantastic. So first I had to set my goals for each of my chosen languages. Today I'm going to write about English. My goals are: 1. I want to read more in order to expand my vocabulary and maybe reach level C1 although it's really hard to know exactly where that is. 2. I would like to really boost my pronunciation. So together with my adorable teacher here on Italki we're working on it. My weak points are the difference between "i" and "e" (as in "ship" and "sheep" and so on), the "th" sound (my "favourites" words are "three" and "with"). There are other little things, but I'm working on it by reading almost everything aloud. 3. Of course I would also like to improve my grammar. Aside from doing exercises every day, reading helps me a lot with this because I see all these grammatical rules "in action". Maybe I forgot to mention something, but for me these three points are essential for now and I'm working really hard. I've just started to read "Wives and daughters" by Elizabeth Gaskell. I was a bit afraid of this book because it has almost eight hundred pages and the language isn't quite modern. But as I really want to improve my English, I can't look for simple ways to do this because it doesn't really work. Of course I understand that half of the words and expressions I will encounter it the book won't be useful for everyday conversations, but I think I'll "feel" the language much better with this "old" and beautiful way of expression once I finish it. Thank you for reading this until the end! I'll continue with other languages in my next entry. Thank you if you're going to correct my note, it would be so helpful. I'm still learning and I'm sure there are errors I haven't caught, but I'm glad to be back!