Short break I've got a short break so I have some free time to write a notebook entry. My current goal is to pass IELTs in a year with a minimum score 7.5. In order to do that I need to improve my grammar, reading and speaking skills, which means I need to spend more time studying English than I used to last couple of years. I'm still struggling with grammar, so I need to buy some books with grammar exercises (I think Murphy is good enough for this purpose) and find a teacher to get explanations and corrections. The other thing I can do to improve my grammar is to write more on Italki and receive feedback from community, it should help a lot. I also think that I need to widen my active vocabulary to make my writings more interesting and diverse, especially for IELTs essay. There are a lot of examples of IELTs in the internet and advice how to make your essays better. Taking those advice would definitely help to improve my writings. The other thing I would like to improve is my business and technical vocabulary. I work as a software developer and sometimes I struggle with picking a right formal word for naming and translations from Russian to English. That's it for now, thank you all in advance for all the corrections you make.