Could you please check my English?

I've been studying German recently.
One way is by listening to German pop music on CDs every day.
My favorite singer is Max Giesinger and I especially like "80 millionen" (80 millions).
This song is about love at first sight, I listen to it over and over and sing along.

Last Monday, I started listening to Radio B5 Aktuell (current affairs) on the internet for almost an hour per day.
I also started writing in German on italki two days ago.

My diary - 27

Today I visited an air festival. I arrived a little late, but it was still pretty interesting.
The program included drone races, sightseeing rides by helicopter, an aircraft museum and much more.
The weather today was bad, it was drizzling and windy, but a lot of people still came.
Especially interesting to me are drones. These little guys are already used in aerophotography, the transportation of goods and money and by police.
As the use of drones expands, the future becomes very exciting.

Some Unique Brazilian Expressions

This morning, while checking Facebook, something caught my eye.I have to admit, it was something I've never thought about. It was a Buzzfeed post which said, "I really love English, but Brazilian Portuguese has some unique expressions like: "o que é um peido para quem tá cagado".

Well, if you recognize some words in the above sentence, you've learned some bad words in Portuguese. But please don't get offended, because its intention is not to offend at all.

I guess I've never noticed how crazy Brazilian expressions sound, even for natives like me. There are many expressions that don't make any sense if you're not Brazilian. Starting with a famous interjection "eita porra!", which means basically 'WTF', and can be used in may situations and with different intonations.

Another one that everybody in Brazil has heard at least once in a lifetime is the classic, "imagina se pega no olho". In essence, in Brazilian culture you can break all your bones, have all kinds of diseases, but going blind is the worst thing that can happen to you - according to the majority of Brazilian mothers (and grandmothers), of course.

"Oh, you got your arm amputated and shot in your leg? Well, at least you didn't go blind. We can fix it with an herbal tea".

Continuing the list, "Melzinho na chupeta" is basically something very easy to do. "Pica das galáxias" is a description given to someone who is really good at doing something. "Eu tô cagando e andando" is said in a situation in which you couldn't care less. "Enfiar o pé na jaca" is when you drink or eat too much. "É nois na fita" means that you can count on someone. "Solta a franga" means 'express yourself', and so on.

Who invented these expressions and when, and why the people who did it have chosen such a crazy combination of words remains a mystery to me. But I guess after realizing that the origin of idioms in my mother tongue can be unknown, I became less stressed about fluency in a foreign language.

There will always be cultural barriers reminding me that we can achieve a proficient level in a language, but it will never be like our mother language. It's all about context, and sometimes it cannot be understood. I have to deal with it. "Chupa essa manga!"

My friend's smartphone fell into the toilet.

I knew that this day would come. She has already ruined so many smartphones; it was just a matter of time. Women keep their mobile in the back pocket of their pants, and as she sat on the toilet the phone fell into the water. She was so pissed off.

No PC Day パソコンなしの日

All right, I decided, no computer day today!

I need to feel time go by naturally and experience one hour as exactly sixty minutes and not equivalent to ten minutes.
So I ended up writing this with my iPhone .
Ha! Good job!

Can you spend a day without a PC or a smartphone?
Can you spend a day without any food?

March 3rd, Monday.

・ Practice
Who is your teacher? → My teacher is Ms. Saito, he is good at basketball.
What will you do next Tuesday? → I am going to the junior high school entrance ceremony.

Who do you like to play tennis with? → I am a strong tennis player and fun to play with.
・ Diary
It was warm today, I cleaned my room. I will study in the afternoon.
I am at home all day tomorrow.

Question

Hi, there

Could you help me with two questions? Please!!

1) Do you say "late at night", "late in the night" or "late into the night"?

We chatted until late at night.     We chatted until late into the night.  We chatted all night.   ~ these are all okay

We danced late into the night.---good
We danced until night. ---good              We danced until nighttime. ----good

"We talked until the early morning."~good, you don't need the 'the', (we talked until early morning) but it's good either way.

2) Does it sound odd to say
"We worked away in the field all day"----this sounds like it's from a song or poem. It'd be better to say, "We worked in the field all day."  I think I've heard something like, "We worked the day away."

"We chatted the whole day away"----good

Thank you

Italki is Very Useful for Language Learning

I recently opened an italki account based on the recommendation of an IELTS listening teacher. Since I joined the language learning community, I found many learners from different backgrounds and countries.  Many are studying English or minority languages

(we don't have the phrase 'minority language' in the U.S. I'm not sure what to substitute.)

like Spanish and Japanese. The website is amazing and it's just like a bridge connecting individuals around the world. What's more, there are so many foreigners studying Chinese now-it makes me very proud of my country.