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Hey there! My name's Alyona. I'm 31. I'm from Kurgan, in Russia. I've been learning English for a long time already so I'd like to chat with native speakers to improve my speaking skills. I can help you learning Russian in return I am not interested in teachers. I need someone to talk with. English is my main hobby in life, but I would love to learn French either. No special reason, just because it sounds nice to me. And frankly speaking I'm pretty much a beginner in French, just learning to read now. It would be great to find a patient study buddy to help me with that cuz it's not so easy as I thought lol If you are as passionate about learning languages as I am, you're very welcome! I'd be keen to hear from anyone who speaks English or French and is learning Russian who would be happy to have conversations (written/skype/face-to-face) so that we can both improve in our target languages.
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    "Decisions we make" Living in the modern world people think about material things more than anything else. They want to be happy buying fancy cars, huge flats, pretty dresses. But, after all, comes clear understanding that having all of these they're not happy at all. There is a saying in our language: like a bird in a golden cage. Choosing his way one should make a decision to live in wealth with no feelings at all or to live happily in poverty. But which is right? Is it ok coming from work seeing a stranger at home? Going to bed thinking "What's wrong with me? What am I doing here?" Constantly asking yourself "Am I happy? Is this my life?" Having a lot of money, unfortunately, you can't buy happiness, love, desire to be together. You either love somebody or not. But what is more important is that both of you should have such desire. When two people are together but only one lives the life of the other, devotes his life to that person, gives time and do everything in sake of him one day he will get tired because he didn't get anything in return. That moment he understands that the person he used to love became his disappointment. In this case, you can lose the one who was so in love with you and did everything for you. Don't make such mistakes. Be attentive to your nearest people. They deserve that!
    September 15, 2017
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    Nice to meet you! (#1)

    Hi!
    My name is Haruko :D
    But my friends call me Haru! :)
    This is the first time to I  write in the notebook!

    I don't know well  how to use this notebook properly! haha

    And I know, my English is so bad...
    Please correction these sentences!
    I'm waiting for your correction!

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    February 3, 2016
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    "Beauty" Recently I've been asked an interesting question from my foreign friend. He asked me how could I define "beauty". I didn't really think about it before, you know. So It took me awhile to realise that I can't give a proper definition of beauty because it's a relative concept. People are different and they see beauty in so many things. What is beautiful for me could be less or more beautiful for others... "Beauty lies in lover's eyes" I said. If you really love somebody or something they become beautiful for you and you think for everybody too. So tell me if I'm wrong.
    January 29, 2016
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  • Commented

    Um... snow, eh? ^_^

    I'm living in the East of Russia and we have lots of snow. The weather is freezing here. Winds, snow, frost... not something rare to see for us. Just to let you compare, today it was -25' C. To go outside we need to be bundled up tight. And it could be worse, last week it was about -30'C. 

    But still there's no place like home and living in a such severe weather we're learning how to cherish warmth. :)

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    January 23, 2016
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    Couldn't agree with those more. Here in Russia we have a proverb: "доброе слово и кошке приятно" which means something like: The word of kindness even a cat can enjoy. But we are living in the rough world with the egotistical people and I'm personaly trying to keep in mind the following: those who made with honey can be eaten by the flies. 

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    January 17, 2016
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    "Social networks"

    Nowadays it's hard to imagine our life without computers. People from all over the world spend a lot of time surfing the internet day after day. There are several famous social networks which are constantly used by people. 

    I can't help it but I check my Vk page at least once a day. 

    What about you, guys? ;)

    January 16, 2016
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    "The most popular Russian social network" Hello there. I wonder if there anybody from abroad using Vk.com Russian social network?
    October 25, 2015
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  • Commented

    Все говорят: понедельник - день тяжелый. Но я так не думаю. Я люблю понедельники, не знаю по какой причине, но у меня лично всё всегда получается по понедельникам и этот день обычно очень плодотворно проходит )) Так что да, я за понедельники! ))) 

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    October 25, 2015
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    It depends on what phrases you need. Everyday phrases or idioms?

    There are some popular words and phrases which Russian people use way too often, like блин [blin] (used like exclamation carries usually negative character, something like 'damn' in English). 

    or "да ну(?)" [da nu]  (used mostly as a question if you don't believe something's happened or said, similar to "oh really?" or it can be said not as a question and then it'll have another meaning, sothering like "no way" in English so people will take it as a "no". )

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    October 25, 2015
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    as many countries*
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    October 23, 2015
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