Day of the Virgin in Spain

Yesterday, the 15th of August, there was a holiday in most Spanish villages. One of the places where we celebrate a big party is in Madrid. The 15th of August is the Virgin Day. This Virgin in Madrid is "La Paloma" (dove). In On these days, Madrid dresses up and fills its streets with "verbenas" in the old part of the city, "La Latina". "Verbena" is a kind of typical typical kind of festival which you only could know here (slightly awkward--I would say "can only be found here"). During these days the city becomes in the small village that was it was in the past and forgets the cosmopolitan city of nowadays it is today.

There is an old saying that say: "from Madrid to the sky". Visit us and you will know why.

Hi everybody!

Hi everybody. I am new in on Italki, so at first I want to introduce myself. I am Irrestry Naritasari. You can call me Ires or Restry. My friends said that Restry is too difficult so they prefer to call me Ires rather than Restry.

I am still a student, an undergraduate student. I study Psychology. Because of what I learnt now people keep asking me, "Oh you are studying Psychology, so you must be able to read me. Don't you?" I usually don't answer them but laugh inside. How come can I read them! Are those people a book for me to read? Never mind. It's just my thought (this is slightly awkward-- I would use "that's just my opinion" instead).

I am 23 years old. I join Italki because I want to improve my speaking. I think my speaking is bad. When I am about to say something, they the words don't come out. There's a time Sometimes when I can't think anything of what to say and I have a blank mind (again, this is correct but slightly awkward-- I would say "my mind goes blank"). Maybe my writing is not bad, although it is not good enough, but my speaking's bad. If it is about I am writing, I know the world I should write and I can express it well. By joining Italki, I hope I found find a friend or maybe some friends to talk with, so that I can improve my speaking.

Besides speaking, I also want to improve my writing although writing is not my priority. My goal is to reach 7 in IELTS score an IELTS score of 7. Practising everyday every day is the best way for because  I can learn from any one, any media. I really need your help to make my wish come true. Thank you.

First Words

Hello there!  

First of all thank you for reading and correcting my entry, I aprreciate appreciate it a lot :)

Well, I am a 18 years old guy from Argentina who is currently studying International Relationships Relations at the university. So I joined this website because I thought it would be a great idea to improve my English skills and also to learn new languages, which are important for my career. I am mostly interesed in learning Portuguese and Italian at this ("at the moment" is more common) moment, however I am also interesed in learning German and Russian but I must admit that it's kind of hard for me to spell and write most of the sentences, maybe I will give it a shoot shot later.

It's hard to explain how is my English level (I would say "where my English level is"). I have been studying English all the time during high school ("all the way through high school" would be better) but I have to say that like many other people I learned in a different way: wich would be by playing online games, listening to foreign music and watching foreign movies. I can assure you I learned the 80% of my English by doing that.
I must say that I still check sometimes the meaning of some words or the estructure of some sentences in the translator but generally I think that my English is good, I would say advanced but not fluent yet. That's the main reason why I am here. I am really looking forward to speaking fluent English and in order to do that I need to improve my pronunciation, which is not so good at the moment.

So I really hope to find some people who are willing to help me with my pronunciation. I recently downloaded Skype so I am kinda new at this I guess... anyway, if you want to help me just send me a message and I would will reply asap.

Regards.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself

I'm learning English because I like it, and I need to practice it.

Introducing myself

Hi, I´m here to practise my English and teach Spanish. If you want to learn Spanish don´t hesitate to send me a message. I´m an expert at Spanish grammar and etymology.

I would like to have conversations by Skype or other media in order to improve my english skills. I hope to find a lot of people to talk with.

Cheers ;-)