- How languages have changed my life Hello everyone. I am a Professional Teacher on Italki as well as being a Languages Teacher in a State School in Cambridge, England. I am very passionate about languages; I speak French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese and I am learning Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Russian in my free time. Languages have changed my life and only for the better. It all started when I was four years old. We were in the car on a family trip to France and my father started pointing at objects out of the car window, saying them in French and getting me to repeat them. At that moment, a light bulb switched on in my brain. I learnt the word 'voiture' that day and from that moment onwards my enthusiasm for languages grew and grew. I started learning languages at high school in Essex when I was eleven years old. Being from Essex, where it is a rare occurrence to hear foreign languages being spoken in the street, any new languages immediately sounded exotic to me and French and German immediately became my favourite subjects. They remained my favourite subjects all the way through school. I studied French and Spanish at University and as part of my course I studied for one year in Zaragoza in Spain. My linguistic experiences have changed my life. They have given me a real desire and curiosity to travel the world and communicate with people from lots of different cultural backgrounds. I have also had the opportunity to use my languages in a business context, undertake translation work, act as an interpreter in business situations and share my knowledge with learners of all ages and abilities in a classroom. Since being at University I have worked in the UK, Spain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia. I have also been on holiday to Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Russia, China and Morocco. Without the confidence that I gained learning languages, this would not have all been possible. Languages have made a real difference to my life. If I were to lose the languages I have learnt to date I would feel lost. Start learning a new language today and you will see how it will change your life for the better.
August 29, 201509 My travel experience
During Spanish Holy Week I spent a week in Madrid.
I went with my best friend and it was our first trip together. We stayed in a hotel in 'Puerta del Sol' so we were in the centre of Madrid and we could go shopping and saw the most important monuments in the city centre.Also we had a lot of cheaps restaurants and fast food restaurants near our hotel.
I like to travel and one of my dreams is to travel around the world for a wholeyear and visit famous places where few people have been before. I like to discover different cultures and diferrent types of food.Very well written. I hope my corrections help you. If you'd like to practice speaking, I'd be happy to help you develop a study plan. Feel free to look at my teaching profile and class offerings and send me a message if you think I can help you.
0 votedAugust 29, 20151Irony and good vibes.
This summer I tried to teach English to a student in first year of secondary school. It was funny because I'm a disaster with languages but he understood part of what I said.
For some reason I feel hopeful about learning more english. I think is a beautiful language.
Please I need help to improve my english, thanks for reading.Very well written. I hope my corrections help you. If you'd like to practice speaking, I'd be happy to help you develop a study plan. Feel free to look at my teaching profile and class offerings and send me a message if you think I can help you.
Saludos
James
0 votedAugust 29, 20152This time for sure!
In any case, it's important to continue learning and I understand this fact. But it's the most difficult thing for me to continue. Honestly I've been slacking off a lot lately. This is why I hadn't been here for a while since I made this account.
Last week a thing happened that changed my mind. One of my Indonesian friends came to Japan and we met up! He doesn't speak Japanese, so we talked in English. Thanks to him, I had a great time and enjoyed it a lot. But...how many times I wish i could become more fluent in English!!! I couldn't even explain what I wanted to say. It made me feel really frustrated and reminded me of the purpose of learning English. My vocabulary has already gone away and I have forgotten grammar. I've got to get back to basics! So This time, I'll keep studying English for sure!Very well written. Have a look at my comments and please ask if you have any questions. If you'd like to practice speaking, I'd be happy to help you develop a study plan. Feel free to look at my teaching profile and class offerings and send me a message if you think I can help you.
0 votedAugust 29, 20152History and its movement
This year I'll graduate from the University. It's a little bit sad. I will miss my classmates. I can't say that I like my major, but it has definitely given me a lot of knowledge. I've been learning history. The historical education helps you with critical thinking and the ability to find the truth amongst ficticious information. You can predict what will happen tomorrow because, you know, history is like a spiral. All events are and will repeating again and again. Of course, the different civiliations have different people, the different reachments and devepolments. But all of them have the same steps being born, to grow and to die. There many viewpoints on this. Some people say that history is not a spiral. Maybe it is. But I read a lot of books, historical documents like the Magna Carta, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Russian truth and other diifferent resolutions, manifests etc. I can't say that it was interesting and I read all pages, but those documents are helpful to look at the dynamics of the society. You know, there have been a lot of wars and rebellions. Most of them for the same reasons. The peasants became angry because of taxes and no payment, so they had to rebel. Later on other people came to power and after some years or centuries the peasants or maybe it's not peasants, it's already another class which named workers or proletarians (it doesn't matter how we call them) have to rebel again. History is boring in that point. People do the same mistakes. I want to say that there were no bad guys in history. They can be bad from points like humanity, but from historical points they're not bad because history needed them. For example, there were a lot of killers or thiefs who explored the American continent. They were bad guys, but they helped history to make another one step forward. I advise you to read "Ten Historical Miniatures" by Stefan Zweig. I don't want to learn history in the future, I'm going to change my major. But you know, I couldn't help telling I'm glad and I'm thankful to my teachers.
0 votedMay 9, 20151- Информация обо мне Привет! Мне зовут джеймс. Я англичанин. Я из Лондона, но я живу в Кембридже. Я учитель французского, немецкого и испанского языка в средней школе, которая находится рядом Кембридже. В свободное время, я люблю путешествовать. Я был в многих европейских странах, России, Украины, Китая, Аргентины, Бразилии и Мексики. Этим летом я поеду в Перу. Моя цель, чтобы выучить русский, арабский, китайский и японский.May 9, 2015141
