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I am a native English speaker with an English degree, lit minor and a Masters Degree in American History. I have a TEFL Certification and have been teaching English for 3 years now. I would like to learn Spanish for numerous reasons. One of my goals is to be able to read One Hundred Years of Solitude in its original Spanish, but I have a long way to go before I get to that point.
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Mar 6, 2016
I'm glad we finally met, Jennifer! It was a real pleasure! ¡Gracias!
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    Hello everybody, I am Víctor and I am trying to learn english, I need Help with this.

    Juan is my friend. I know him at the school when we were six years old.

    He lives in London with his wife. He works there althogh although he travels a lot, and stays for weeks in Lisbon for working on a proyect projects based there.

    We`ve been friends since we were children. We lived in the same town and often go went out together, and traveled, etc but some years ago he went out  left Spain to work and I went to live to in Madrid.

    He is tall with little blue eyes and yellow hair . He is medium weight, I think that he continues doing exercise to keep fit.

    Juan is an outgoing person and has a lot of friends because he is kind and sociable.

    He is self confident too, otherwise he is too stubborn sometimes and it is difficult for him to admit mistakes, but at last eventually he will do it. (end sentence there, it is beginning to be a run on...) but

    I think he has had problems at work becose because of it......He is not a good team player.

    I am looking forward to see him soon, we get on very well, we have had a lot of adventures together , just look in the eyes to know what we think...

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    March 18, 2016
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    Have you considered solely interacting with female language partners? I see this complaint a lot and discussions about this often, but the answer is pretty simple imho. I canceled my old page, haven't put a picture up, and now only respond to female requests for language exchanges and I haven't had any of the problems I had before. 
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    March 18, 2016
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    I agree it is important to have at least some common interests with your language partner or you will be stuck going through the same basic and boring phrases you have learned reading books or practicing flashcards or whatever it is you do to learn. 'Hello my name is....' 'How are you?' 'I'm fine thanks and you?' 'Where are you from?' 'I'm from x,y,z...' And that can become boring quick.


    My first two language partners were not good for me. I thought just any partner would do. They were perfectly nice people, and it wasn't their fault, but they were both in their very early 20's (one was 19) I'm a decade older than that. They were interested in music I didn't know and sports which I'm not interested in. We had no motivation to keep in regular contact because I probably bored them also.


    For anyone interested in world literature or history (my masters was in American History, but I have studied a lot of history from around the world and from various time periods...) I would love to talk....

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    March 18, 2016
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    Mi Familia Mi nombre es Jennifer. Yo tengo dos hermanas. Mi hermana menor tien viente y cuatro anos. Mi hermana mayor tien trenta y dos anos. Yo tengo trenta anos. Mi hermana mayor se llama Rachel, y mi hermana menor se llama Veronica. Veronica vivo en Michigan, y Rachel vivo en Colorado. Mi madres es un professora y mi padres es un panadero. Yo tambien tango dos gatos. Veronica es un estudiante, y Rachel es un bibliotecaria. Tengo cinco primas, y seis primos, tengo siete tios y ocho tias. Mi abuela vivo en Michigan. Mi abuela es a panadero con mi padre.
    March 15, 2016
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    I think a combination of both is good. A language teacher explained to me that if I only practice with people who are also learning we might just learn each other's mistakes, or we will only get so far in a conversation before trying to take short cuts. However it is definitely nice to practice with others who are learning also because it is nice to not feel so inferior. If you can't find a native speaker of you target language by all means practice with other learners, practice is good and it is important, it is just nice to get some practice with a native for pronunciation assistance as well.
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    March 12, 2016
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    March 11, 2016
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    It depends on the topic for me. If I am really interested in the topic or conversation going on I will read long comments, otherwise I might just scan them or skip them altogether. 
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    March 11, 2016
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    Gracias por estos articulos de Espanol y poesia.

    I am a beginning Spanish student but I love poetry and this article as well as your previous article have been a great joy for me to read.

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    March 11, 2016
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