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Hello, my name is Monica, I am an English Teacher.
I have set up a page on instagram to help with English tips:
@English_Teacher_Monica
I try to teach something new there everyday
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A very short letter - please correct it so it looks like a native speaker's text
Hi John,
As you agreed to lead the project, I think you should find 3-4 assistants. It doesn't matter who they are you should only trust them.
Second, you should find at least 8-10 journalists who can write about our project in your area while the project starts.0 votedFebruary 15, 20160"Goodnight Mommy"
Hey folks! How are you? There's been some time that I haven't written something here, but today I need to share what happened with me yesterday. I was watching a movie called "Goodnight Mommy" and it is a German film. I thought the way that the characters spoke was very beautiful, and now, I want to learn German too! Is German a very hard language to learn?
(If you speak English and German, you can help me to learn this language hahaha)0 votedFebruary 14, 20160My learning journey.
When you learn a language, it is absolutely necessary to practice the speaking. Because I'm in this incredible journey with my 2 year old daughter, it's something really appreciable to do. I only speak to her in English and when she wants to ask me something, she does it in this very language. I'm forced to use this language. I guess this is how I've been progressing since the beginning of this learning process.
Watching lots of content is useful as well! When I have free time, I practice my listening skills by watching TV, listening to podcasts etc...
Now I tend to try to watch movies but despite my very good level of English, sometimes I still struggle with some dialogs.
Everything at my house is now set in English, for example, I love to play video games so I've set the language settings onto English and now when I want to play a video game, the whole content is displayed in this very language. It's efficient because it's something that I enjoy and to improve your skills, you have to enjoy what you learn or do.
Writing posts on Italki is something interesting eventhough I don't focus on writing because above all I want to 'speak' the language and render it alive.
Now I've aquired what I define as 'comfort zones'. Topics in which I'm very confident and able to respond efficiently, fluently, without searching for translating from my mother tongue.
I'm certain that for speaking a language, you need to acquire the automaticity of thousands of phrases that you link together.
Learning new words is something really nice to do, and every time that I learn new words and I hear them on TV, radio, games etc... it's like I've untangled my brain or added a new piece of the puzzle to my comprehension.
I'd like to be better at fluency, and I'm confronted everyday with this big wall that is my goal. I would like to speak like a native speaker. I don't want to sound formal, I wanna* sound like you guys, when you speak this language with your friends or acquaintances and using all this slang, this idioms etc...
I don't know nobody anybody whom speaks formally in his their real life. Unless thinking about a news anchor or TV show host.
So, if you want to correct my text, please keep in mind that I don't want too sound formal.Wow, your English is amazing! Continue doing what you are doing and keep teaching your daughter English as well. Maybe we can play video games online together sometime and I'll set my defaults in French ;)
0 votedFebruary 14, 20161Carnaval in Brazil
This year, I had an opportunity to have a party with my friends in Carnaval. We took the Tv and We put it in the back of my house. We watched all the samba schools and we talked a lot. All of this makes me remember the time that I watched the schools on Avenue, good memories.:)
0 votedFebruary 14, 20160- Carnaval nos estados unidos Ontem, eu fui ao carnaval pela terceira vez. Me diverti muito. Bebi uma caipirinha, falei com uns amigos, e dancei um pouco. Curti muito a musica do brasil. Depois, fui ao um restaurante chamada "fogo de chao". A comida la e muito gostosa e diferente do que a comida aqui nos eua. nao tenho um teclado com todos os acentos, por isso, nao os coloquei. Desculpe.February 7, 2016256

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