Little by little, spring is approaching. It was a warm day today. A flower of cram bloomed. I can't wait for the cherry blossoms.

When you meet difficulties, you need to try your best to find ways to solve them. I believe in most cases there is always a way if you try hard enough. For example, when I first started teaching at my new school, I found it extremely hard to give an efficient class because the students’ levels and attitudes were so bad. Some students even gave up studying. At first, I nearly gave up and thought it was not my responsibility, and I couldn’t change them by myself. Plus I would be leaving the school in a year anyway. But one day, I read that we should take responsibility for everything that happens in our lives and we can do something to improve it. I changed my approach (or mindset). I now maintain high expectations and strict rules for my students. And in the meantime (while they adjust to this new standard), I have enough patience to wait for them to change under my guidance. Now I am happy: most of them have made great progress and are willing to make great efforts to learn.

Hi everyone. I have a best friend in my life. He is so kind and loyal, and it's difficult to find a good friend these days. Alternative: My best friend is so kind and loyal. I am very grateful for him, especially since good friends are so rare these days.

I listened to some songs by Meghan Trainor today. I feel somehow nostalgic (while) listening to her songs, and I like the positivity of her lyrics too.

I would like to study languages, specifically English, because I think to learn a language, you have to use it every day: speaking it, listening to it, practicing it in general. In my case, I am trying to learn English; I'm from Mexico; and I can study daily but if I don't practice my speaking, I think it will be difficult to keep a conversation with native speakers when I travel to other countries where I should use the language. So this is the main reason I want to learn English abroad and speak fluently with native speakers.

In this context, it means "know" as in "to know." So essentially Hank's saying "I don't even know if you know the full extent of this." He's gauging whether the other person fully realizes the consequences of Walt's actions, namely the people who have suffered and died as a result of his cooking meth.

Back to France

Hello, I'm I've just coming come back from Yellowstone and the West Coast where I spent three weeks with my children and some friends. Unfortunately, I have to come go back to work tomorrow, but for now, I'm looking at my 2,937 photos and trying to stay, at least in my head ("mind" sounds slightly more natural), in that awesome country and fantastic landscapes (you could either say "those fantastic landscapes" if you want to keep the plural, or you could say "fantastic landscape" to keep the singular/agree with the "that") for a while. It was a pleasure to speak English during that time, and see that I was able to have short conversations with native americans (in American English, when we hear "native americans," we generally think this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States. If you did speak with Native Americans, this still works. But if you mean Americans in general, you can just say "Americans" or "American citizens"). I still need to get learn more vocabulary and listen again and again to understand even at a rapid speed of speaking (this sounds slightly awkward. Maybe say "and improve my listening skills in order to understand rapid English") (my TV is open right now on an English-speaking spoken channel (sounds more natural to say "my TV is set to an English-speaking channel right now)), but I'm on the right way track.
As you can see, I still have to make some efforts ("I still have some work to do"/"I still need to practice" ?), so thanks for correcting.

 

Great notebook entry! Please don't let the blue text intimidate you; most of my corrections are very superficial. You definitely have a very strong command of English. Glad you enjoyed your visit to the US. Thanks for sharing your experience on here, and good luck with your studies!

Depending on context, it sounds acceptable to me. If the context is slightly negative, it definitely works. If the context is neutral or positive, delivery of the sentence would have to be adjusted, or you might want to find a nicer way of expressing the same idea.