"Common sense" refers to something "common" to all human beings, regardless of their personal experience. It's origins are in philosophy coming out of the United Kingdom. There's no way to say this, consequently. One either uses common sense, or doesn't. As for street smarts, one either is or is not street smart. There are comparisons "she's way more street smart than I am, man!" but no "activity" that "creates" "street-smartness," though you could invent such a word (if necessary) and people would understand you.

My experience learning English (Correct me, please)

I’ve been studying English for four years. But I must confess: I didn’t study like I should. I know to read and write, basically, but I don’t feel secure enough in my English to maintain a conversation with a native “face to face”. So, when I joined Italki, I decided that I would dedicate more [effort? time? energy?] to improving my English. I don’t have enough time to dedicate every day to practicing, but I’d enjoy using my free moments to contact natives and practice the language. I’m so shy. I think this is the biggest difficultly preventing me from speaking better.

A tale of a weekend in Italy

Last weekend I came back to Italy. I landed at around 6.30 pm on Friday, and my girlfriend, who lives there already, came to pick me up.
We had already planned to go out for dinner and indeed at 8 pm we were in front of two delicious pizzas. We were in a well-known restaurant that is very close to the Ticino river. We spent a really good night together.
On Saturday we went to Stresa (a nice town on the Lake Maggiore), and afterwards we had real espresso coffee (which I have missed ever since I left Italy :)), we took a ferry to the so called "Fishermen’s island", in order to have lunch there.
We ended up to Belvedere Restaurant, which has an extraordinary terrace directly on the lake, with a wonderful view of the environment (a lake with still snowy mountain on the background). Unfortunately it was slightly windy, so we decided to have lunch inside, but even from the inside there is an amazing view, thanks to a huge glass wall.
We ate two courses mainly based on fish from the lake accompanied with a half-liter of red wine. Obviously, we ended with two espressos.
In the afternoon, we came back to dry land, and on the way back we had a short break for ice-cream.
In the evening, we went to a friend's birthday party we'd been invited to two weeks ago.
We ended our stay on Sunday. After eating a sunshiny breakfast together with other two friends on the main square, she gave me a ride to the airport, and I was already back to Luxembourg Sunday afternoon, luckily dry and relatively warm, considering that last's month's temperature had been average.

Salut!

Salut!

Je suis Américan; j'habite en Nashville, Tennessee. J'ai appris francais pour trois semaine, et je veux practicare. Je parle allemand et aussi un peu espagnol (et anglais, naturellement).