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My steps to learning English - P2 I couldn't help myself, so I decided to look for another method to learn English and I found the Youtube tutorials. There are a lot of tutorials on Youtube about everything! If you like cooking you'll probably find a new way to bake that your Grandma recipe. If you like fixing your car, there are a lot of people on Youtube teaching you how to do that. And, what is even better, you can follow all these tutorials in English, which means that you will learn something new and meanwhile, practising your English speech. I do love painting! So I decided to watch some tutorials on Youtube. The first Youtuber that I've found was Lena Danya, who's a Russian artist that lives in Miami. She's really a great artist and she talks a lot during her timelapse videos. Even that she's not a native American , I can't figure out her accent so for me she speaks English very, very well. Also I've found this guy, Andrew Tischler. I don't know exactly where he is from, maybe Australia, maybe New Zealand...The fact is: He has a different accent but he speaks clearly and at end you can understand everything he says. And then finally I met her: Cynthia Sheppard. She's just the best painter on Youtube. She performs these amazing videos on Youtube and she has a so sweet voice! I almost pee on my paints when she starts talking. Also she gives importants tips about how you should behave to have your artwork recognized. When I started following tutorials, I was making real paintings with brushes, paints, canvas or woods. Because of Cynthia Sheppard, I started doing digital paintings on Photoshop. It was amazing, because I had the opportunity to learn how to handle with Photoshop and I got it from others tutorials on Youtube. Below there's a sample of a drawing that I've made following tutorials. It's a real graphite and charcoal drawing...

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Whoop whoop! Hey, I haven't seen you for a while! How are things? I see Caroline has already corrected Part 1 (and I agree with her corrections 100%) so I'll start at Part 2...

My steps to learning English - Pt2

I couldn't help myself, so I decided to look for another method to learn English and I found the some Youtube tutorials. There are a lot of tutorials on Youtube about everything all kinds of things! If you like cooking you'll probably find a new way to bake that your Grandma's recipe*. If you like fixing your car, there are a lot of people on Youtube teaching you how to do that. And, what is even better, you can follow all these tutorials in English, which means that you will learn something new and meanwhile, practise** your English speech.
I do love painting***! So I decided to watch some tutorials on Youtube. The first Youtuber that I've found was Lena Danya, who's a Russian artist that lives in Miami. She's really a great artist and she talks a lot during her timelapse videos. Since she's not a native born American**** , I can't figure out her accent so for me she speaks English very, very well. Also I've found this guy, Andrew Tischler. I don't know exactly where he is from, maybe Australia, maybe New Zealand...The fact is: He has a different accent but he speaks clearly and at in end***** you can understand everything he says******.
And then finally I met found her: Cynthia Sheppard. She's just the best painter on Youtube. She performs publishes these amazing videos on Youtube and she has such a so sweet voice! I almost pee on my paints******* when she starts talking. Also she gives importants tips about how you should behave to have your artwork recognized. When I started following tutorials, I was making real paintings with brushes, paints, canvas or woods. Because of Cynthia Sheppard, I started doing digital paintings in Photoshop. It was amazing, because I had the opportunity to learn how to handle work with Photoshop and I got it from others tutorials on Youtube.
Below there's a sample of a drawing that I've made by following tutorials. It's a real graphite and charcoal drawing...

* "your grandmother's recipe" sounds odd on its own. We would usually say "your grandmother's recipe for madeira cake" or something. Also "bake" only works if you're talking about a cake, bread, pie or similar items. "make" or "cook" are better verbs for cooking in general

**uk english: practise (verb), practice (noun) but I think the yanks use "practice" for both, so it's fine for me but if you were writing for a US audience you would need to change the "s" to a "c" as well as the "ing" to an "e"!

***This is fine but very emphatic. It would probably be better as "I love painting" unless you are feeling very excited about it!

****Native American= "indigenous american" (aka "Indians"). It makes no sense but...

***** "at the end" = no fim, "in the end" = ao fim das contas

******Tischler's accent is weird. It sounds like maybe he was from down under but spent a lot of time in the US... or vice versa...?

*******I almost corrected this to "pee in my pants" but this is deliberate right? lol I don't know which is worse!

Great work - both with the writing and with the graphite!

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