Long time no see (ran out of characters) I'm writing this text In view of the English exam and of the scarce time I've been dedicating to my English these few months, as I was focused on improving my German and getting settled in a new town, Vienna (Austria), where I'm living since the 11 of February. Of course I still watch english series and movies, I just wasn't being as focused on English as I used to be when I hadn't this german burden upon me. To get back on track I've read on of my favorite books "The Alchemist" by Paul Coelho and as you can expect from such a short and engaging novel it took my 2 or 3 hours to finish it. I must say, I was surprised of noticing there was only one unknown word I wrote down "omen". I could still understand the meaning of it as I've read the book in all the languages I know, so the plot up to the details were no surprise but I find fascinating that such a short word carries all that meaning. Now I'm reading "The four hour work week" by Tim ferriss, which is probably the first non-fiction book I read for pleasure and so far it's a good read, I would definitely reccomend it to anyone who's struggling to come to terms with it's financial life or simply to someone who's looking for new ideas, new insights on the financial and entrepreuneur world. If you really are a polyglot, you may read it with the simple purpose of acquiring new vocabulary, even if you're not interested in the book's content. As soon as I'm done with it, I'll review my notes and try to apply at least some of them to my own life and see if they turn out to be useful, the worst case scenario is that I can't really understand or put into practice the book's content and therefore end up losing time, which lately is one of the most abundant things I possess. Reading books and watching movies is my main method of learning languages, while grammar comes in second place and only when I feel I really need it. I find that the traditional approach to learning languages to be rather ineffective outside its closed system, by that I mean that if you follow the traditional approach, there are good chances you'll pass a test on grammar and eventually be able to acquire decent pronunciation and have a conversation on a topic you've prepared in class, but what happens is that you get of your classroom, that safe and fake environment, and out in the free ocean, the true dangerous and wide world, where you realize that you struggle to have a regular conversation on basic topics I'd appreciate your feedback guys