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Hi there! I'm Mel and I'm from Costa Rica. I'm here on Italki because I want to improve my English and meet great people from all over the 🌎! I'll be happy to help you if you want to practice your Spanish.
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SpanishNative
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- For sure! I'm funnier in Spanish than in English, because I've a lot of language tools that I learned as a Spanish native speaker, like phrases, specific entonation, gestures, words, and grammar structures. I also know the cultural context. In English it's harder (or other languages) because I have to learn the tools that this language (and culture) uses for humor. However, this is a great part of the learning process, because I can learn some of this info from series, interviews, and stand up comedy 😁0 votedNovember 21, 20210
- When I was a child I used to read "Cuentos de mitía Panchita" by the Costa Rican writer Carmen Lyra. My favorite character was a rabbit called "Tío conejo". This character is a very smart trickster who all the time is trying to take advantage of the situacions for his own benefit. As you can imagine, these stories wasn't very educational for kids. That is because the stories were collected from the oral tradition by the author and they didn't have a pedagogical criteria. However, I can't deny they were very good for kids imagination.October 9, 202130
- I was doing the exercise about how people celebrate birthdays in my country but I lost the question! Haha there's the text that I wrote: People in Costa Rica celebrate birthdays with their friends, partners, or family. I think we don't do nothing unusual 🤔... Some people like going for a short trip, having a small party, or going out for a dinner. People is used to giving gifts, eating cake, and singing "Feliz cumpleaños" during a birthday celebration.September 25, 202120
- Career fields are experimenting huge changes because of technology. As I see it, the combination of Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence will be a great career field in the future. Computational Linguistic and Natural Language Processing are becoming more popular because companies and governments need to process linguistic data of consumers and citizens. Also, because of the speech revolution! That means people are using voice assistants, voice commands, and voice messages a lot; as a result, companies are trying to resolve bias problems and developing better models of speech recognition and text-to-speech. For those reasons, I think Linguistic are going to be a great career in the future.September 19, 202121
- I normally visit Italki! I like to practice my writing in this platform. Teachers are very nice and they always help you to improve your punctuation, grammar and vocabulary. There are also language learners from all over the world, so you can make friends and practice conversation. 👌🏽🎉September 18, 202120

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