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Hi, I'm looking for a language partner:) I want to practice speaking Spanish, and I'm fluent in English. Send me a message!

Hi, I can practice with you :) send me message and we can talk about it

Hi Marco! I can help you practice, send me a message:)

Hi Daria :) I am training to become an English teacher. I can do some free classes with you to practice speaking. Send me a message if you're interested.

Use or learn or know a language

I've been learning English for more than 20 years.
But not until the recent tow years, I can not say that I speak English.*

Before, I could only say I "KNOW" English. Because, I maybe knew the grammar and lots of vocabulary, but I couldn't ask or answer a completed question even if I understood it. And most of the time, I did not understand, especially when it comes to the very quick, unclearly pronounced daily conversations.

And how come I can say I speak English recently? Because I "USE" English.
I went to aboard and lived aboard for two years. I needed to use English. Even thought I can't speak a completed sentence, I still need to speak! Or else I would die. So, little by little, I started speaking English, and got the feeling of that I can speak English.

So, there is the little feedback of my two years aboard life,
when learning a language, use it! Or you just know it.

* I would rephrase this sentence, for example: But up until the last two years I could not say that I spoke English. 

Well done! Keep speaking as much as you can :)

Fear of the future?

When I was a child, talking to my grandmother who lived in another state, was quite difficult. We didn’t have a phone at home, so we had to make a call from a public one. When we got one, we just called her once or twice a week, cause phone calls were expensive. Actually, the telephones were very expensives.


Now, I can make a vídeo call//have a video call with her and see her while talking. All this in less than twenty years. If we had told my grandmother 40 years ago that we would have this today, she probably wouldn't believe it.

But what about the future? What will we have 40 years from now? Well, I believe that it will be something like the episode “Jan Junipero” of the series Black Mirror. The scientists will be able to download our thoughts and memories to computers, so we will can live forever as machines.

Also, scientists will have discovered the cure for diseases like cancer and HIV. And there will be people exploring Mars.

What do you think about it?

Well done! This is an interesting topic. I certainly hope you are right about the cures for diseases! I hope we won't let technology affect our lives too much. I think modern technology has given us many opportunities, but it has also made us feel more stressed and pressured than ever before.