Why I joined italki? Hello everyone! I'm Gabriela, Brazilian and I'm doing my master's in helath/medicine area. I've joined italki recently and here are some reasons why: - I wanna improve my pronunciation and vocabulary: Recently I traveled abroad for work and met all this amazing people, a lot of them native English speakers. But I was so scared that I wasn't gonna be able to communicate well enough with them! Fortunetly I did, but I still struggled quite a bit. So tha'ts one reason why I would like a language exchange and a language partner: I can practice and improve my English and can contribute with someones learning with Brazilian Portuguese, which is kinda cool! I will travel again soon, so that's another reason why. I think I have a limited English vocabulary, specially informal English, and speaking with a native English speaker might help me expand my vocabulary, learning new words and how to use them. - I wanna improve my writing: Sometimes I have to write in English at work: it might be an essay, or an abstract for a Congress, etc, and I struggle with that. I also have the hardest time texting my friends in English. So I started to study by myself, with English grammar books and so on, and I hopefully I can improve that here on italki. I guess that's it for my first entry. I might write here more often! Thanks! Until next time!