Hi everyone. I'm Lorena I'm a professional historian who needs to improve her academic english skills. Currently I work as an investigation assistant, in the next year maybe we will have to work with academic papers write in English and also we have to write reports in this language. I would like to fin someone to practice and also know if you recommend to me a teacher who could help me with this purpose. Also, if you want you could practice your Spanish with me. I really appreciate if you correct and make suggestions in this text. Thank you.

Currently is really important no only learn English for your daily life, but learning English for improve your profesional skills, this is why I think that I need to improve my writing skills. I'm a historian and a linguistics and I would like to share my word with several investigators around the world. Also, I want to feel sure to communicate in English using the correct words and their meanings. I need to improve my vocabulary, but also my syntax in order to communicate my thoughts in a academic way.

online shopping Online shopping is getting more popular in my country. It’s easy to find more and more people speaking about the advantages to do online shopping, like to spend lees time or to avoid crowed shopping malls. However, sometimes to do online shopping can be risky, specally for those new people who are learning how to buy online stuff. For example, the past holiday season many users suffer of virtual theft, when they did their online dealings. For this reason, the Banks are sending emails with recommendations to their users for buy online.

Why linguistics is a interisting field of study Nowadays I'm finishing my bachelor in linguistics. it has been so far an interesting and challenging experience because I've learned a lot of impressive things, but also I've had to strive a lot. The kind of things that I'm interested in is ethnolinguistics. In my country (Colombia) this is even more interesting because here we have several indigenous languages. Ethnolinguistics is a subfield of linguistics that studies relations between language and culture, for instance how the way that we talk about space is different in some language and some cultures. For example, there are some languages that no use the words "right" or "left" to speak about the space, this means that they no use their bodies as referring, rather they use the space itself speaking always about a specific direction like north, south, and so on.

The path of an academic These last days I've been reading about the life of one of my favourite sociologist. It has been very nice because I could realize that the life of academic persons is not always easy, and intelligent people also have difficulties at the moment to do and to write an investigation. I'm wrapping up this book and what I reading is about the importance of his first studies on medicine and philosophy before to get in the field of sociology. Indeed, this sociologist is, in my opinion, very smart due to his curiosity, his hard work and also his confidence what help him to study all that he wanted. If you want to know who I'm talking about, you can go to google an search the name Norbert Elias.

Something about the history of colombia- "La batalla de Boyacá". Today I want to tell you something about the history of Colombia, because I think is important to practice my English with academic things -furthermore, I'm a historian. As you could know the countries of Latin America have about 200 years. Indeed 200 years ago was an important battle for the independence of Colombia, this battle is called in Spanish "La batalla de Boyacá", and it took place on August 7 of 1819. The battle were between the army of the kingdom of Spain and the army of Simon Bolivar and the people who wanted the independence. Is important to say that this battle took place after another battle called "La Batalla del Pantano de Vargas", this battle ocurred on July 25 of 1819. One of the causes of these battles is that people who looked for the independence, tried to avoid the communication of the army of the King who were scattered in different places of the territory.

The dreams of my life Like everyone, I have dreams and wishes. However, lately, I've been more fearing than dreaming. There are days that I only feel fear of losing that I have and I have fear to can't achieve what I want. That makes me very anxious and I even can't manage my catastrophic thoughts. I suppose that is because this year I've been under too much pressure because I've been working, studying and also I have to make time for my family and friends. Is in this environment of stress that I get confused and this is why I need to clarify my mind and dream. One of my most important dreams is to travel outside of my country to study with a scholarship. I'm studying history and linguistics and I think that I like to make a master about cognitive linguistics. For this I need two things, one is to improve my linguistic skills in the academy by studying and doing a good investigation, probably about an indigenous language of my country, and second I need to learn English and maybe German. My second dream is to make a family, maybe is not a common dream for the people of my age and maybe is an unpopular dream for these days, however, I think if I can achieve only my academic goals without the company of a partner maybe my happiness could be incomplete.

Practising English at the office I'm working in a office in my university, this is not a formal job. I'm a student that help to make some task, like writting and correcting documents, and I get some money that help me to pay my food and my bus tickets. What is more I only work 12 hours a week. Some of my task here are no so difficult, sometimes I only have to copy and paste some information, so as my job is easy I think I can studying english by listening podcast. In this moment I'm listening a podcast about how to speak about the habits in the past, without using "used to". Indeed this is one of the words that I use the most to talk about the things that I used to do in the past but not now. I learnt that sometimes I can use the simple past to talk about the past repetitive actions, for example by saying something like "I really was a health fanatic".