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Hello :) Grammar and pronunciation should NOT be a priority if you’re a beginner. Focus on them later. Start with learning the most common words, and practice combining them into sentences (that's how children do it). I plan to be a tutor and will apply to be an iTalki ‘community tutor’ later. But for the time being, I want to practice & perfect my method. If you are a beginner who wants to improve quickly, I can help. Please consider my teaching method: N-O-B-O-D-Y learns a language faster than children. So let's imitate that. Let's memorize a smart set of 700 sentences that covers 2000 English words, starting with the most common. The sentences are short, clear and memorable. Many are funny or interesting; some are movie dialogues; others are song lyrics. So we can chat, practice telling jokes, and we could even try acting and singing. Should be effective and fun :) But the KEY is MEMORIZATION. There's no way around that so.. you must put in a good effort to memorize what we learn. I'm not a native English speaker, but I’m fluent. I’m not special, but I’m easy to talk to. Also, I'm not heavy on self-promotion, I try act naturally and be myself. All this should make for a relaxed and friendly conversation. I believe the method is quite good (it did work for me). And I can help you with it. If you are interested, please let me know what you think. Take care :) Julian PS I also have a YouTube video, if you’re interested.
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    Thanks Lucile. But will that work if the shoe lace is not undone?  :)


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    Icebreaker competition :)

    So, you've been studying English for a while. You're now in a foreign country. 

    Perhaps you're in some waiting area, sitting next to friendly-looking native English speaker.

    You're shaking a bit, but would like to find the courage to start a conversation.

    You smile... then you say... what?   :)

    You need an 'icebreaker', meaning a line to start the conversation (to... 'break the ice').

    Here's two suggestions on my part:


    1. (A slightly funny, but fairly polite way)

    Hello :)

    I am from Korea (or Japan, or some other country).

    My English will be good someday. But not yet ! :)

    You look... friendly.

    Will you help my poor English a bit?  :)


    2. (A funny way, if you are a bit more daring and can act).

    Hello :)

    How's your English today?

    I want to speak English GOOD, because it's A LOT OF FUNNY !

    [This approach is kind of cheeky, because the above line is incorrect but in a quite funny way.

    See how he reacts then take it from there... By the way the correct way is this:

    "I want to speak English WELL, because it's A LOT OF FUN !" ]


    What do you guys think? Would you try any of these?

    And how would YOU... 'break the ice'.


    Julian

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    "Once" = "One time, long ago (in the past)" Your sentence is likely from the Pinocchio fairy tale, Geppetto is Pinocchio's father.
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    Hi Sufi,

    I'm not Iranian but I've watched several Iranian movies and I particularly liked this one:

    "Kheili dour, kheili nazdik" - 2005

    Title in English: "So close, so far".

    It's a really beautiful movie, and it's very difficult not to be impressed by it.

    By the way, your PhD studies... sound like a lot of fun !  :)

    And here is some great poetry from Persian poet Hafiz: 

    "I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through - listen to this music"

    Goethe said "Hafiz has no peer".

    Take care,

    Julian

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