My text about starting to learn English

Hi, everyone. My name is Tanya, i'm 21. I live in Ekaterinburg and am studying at university; my speciality is ecology. In my free time I like to play the guitar and watch serials. Recently I have not had much free time: I teach a lot and am writing a thesis. I have been trying to learn English for many years, but it was unsuccessful. I had lessons in school and at university, but it was boring and uninteresting. Language always has been very difficult for me so, in December, I found out about Language Heroes. When I read other participant's reviews, I was shocked. I think, that such great results could be achieved in 12 weeks.
Suddenly for myself, I decided to participate, I decided that something needed to change in my life. I think thought what about English? - this is my first step in a beautiful future, when I want. I believe in my strengths! Thanks for listening to me. Bye!

The Memories and The Time

When I was younger, I used to trace a timeline of my life, trying to remember as many memories as I could rescue, from the most remote of them to the most recent. Even so, I still mostly lost them, as if someone had erased them, such as happened with Joel in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. In any case, everything that remains has faded or dismantled itself over time.

It's strange to think that entire years of my life, such as 1989 for example, have already disappeared completely and I do not even have photos on this particular time. There just remains the real feeling of having lived them, and your proceeds, that is, the construction of my being. The more distant the memories, the more I have the impression of seeing them from the perspective of a glass window in times of rain; nothing but blurs and distorted shapes; an aquarelle painting of memorable or even pernicious situations.

It was then that I decided to record the main events of my phenomenally small world in a diary, seizing the occasion of studying  a new language to redact everything in English. The funniest thing is that when I was re-read my unpretentious monologue, I finally understood a phrase often spoken in different versions, which I do not know for sure who spoke first: "to learn a new language is to acquire a new soul." Everything I had written seemed to have been the work of another person. I did not recognize myself in my own texts, even though those were my memories. In fact, I have no idea which of the two perspectives will prevail. In spite of this, if I do not to revisit them in the future, they are likely will likely fall into my oblivion.

I have been thinking about this constantly, without reaching a definite conclusion, even though I believe that when the memories go away or they fade, at least I can use the same words spoken by the fox to the little prince, here by me paraphrased: before, the wheat fields did not remind me of anything, but now, they make me love the noise of the wind rustling the branches; and something tells me that this is probably the moral of the story: if by chance the memories leave us one day, at least the transformations accrued of them will remain in our being.

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1. The boy waited for the girl to call. He waited for her to call him.

2. The phone didn’t ring. It didn’t ring.

3. So the boy called the girl. He called her.

4. The boy and the girl talked for a few minutes. They talked for a few minutes.

5. The boy smiled at his reflection in the mirror. He smiled at his reflection in the mirror.

6. The boy and the girl met in their favorite cafe. They met in their favorite cafe.

7. The boy looked at the girl and the girl looked at the boy. He looked at her and she  looked at him.

8. The people in the cafe watched the boy and the girl. The people in the cafe watched them.

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Do you believe in dreams?

Hi communite  community, my name is João (but you can call me John, it is the equivalent to of João in English).

Like everybody I have a dream. I am not sure if do I will get reach it. To be frank with you I'm not sure about nothing anything. I don't even know if I have enough energy to get achieve it.

Thinking about this, sometimes we fail because we give up trying. We can't think like this and every single day I try to take off this  remove these bad thoughts thinks from my mind. We need to have the freedom of to fail. We need to have the right mindset and fight for our dreams because, if you don't do this for you yourself, then no one else will.

Daily meal routines

I <strike>heard</strike> <font style="background-color: yellow;">listened to</font> this programme last week. <font style="background-color: yellow;">It was</font> about daily meal routines in Norway. My sister <strike>lives</strike> <font style="background-color: yellow;">lived </font>there <strike>for</strike> three years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9mEsVGzVNk&t=217s

For me, it is very weird to have dinner between four <strike>or</strike> <font style="background-color: yellow;">and </font>five p.m.,<strike> for example</strike>. I am going to describe a typical daily meal routine for a standard family <font style="background-color: yellow;">as an example</font>.

<strike>We are</strike><font style="background-color: yellow;">  Our family consists of </font>my children, my husband and me. We have breakfast <strike>around</strike> <font style="background-color: yellow;"><font style="background-color: yellow;">between<font style="background-color: yellow;"> </font></font><font style="background-color: yellow;">7</font></font>.30 and 8.00 a.m. We have some milk with soluble chocolate or coffee. My husband <strike>takes</strike> <font style="background-color: yellow;">has </font>some biscuits too.
My husband and I work between 8.00 and 13.00, so we have a break at <font style="background-color: yellow;">around</font> 10.00<strike> more or less</strike>. We have coffee most the time. The children go to school between 9.00 and 14.00 ( my daughter <font style="background-color: yellow;">is </font>at the primary school) or 15.00 ( my son <font style="background-color: yellow;">is</font> at the secondary school). They have a break at 12.00 and <strike>take</strike> <font style="background-color: yellow;">have  </font>some home-baked cake.

We have lunch between 13.00 and 15.30 (my husband and I start <strike>to</strike> work again at 15.00). Usually, we <strike>take</strike> <font style="background-color: yellow;">have</font> some vegetables <strike>on</strike>  <font style="background-color: yellow;"><font style="background-color: yellow;"><font style="background-color: yellow;">for </font>the</font></font> first course and meat <strike>on</strike> <font style="background-color: yellow;">for</font> the second course and always <strike>we take fruit after all </strike><font style="background-color: yellow;">finish with fruit.</font>

<strike>At middle</strike> <font style="background-color: yellow;">At mid</font>afternoon, <font style="background-color: yellow;">the</font> children <strike>take</strike> <font style="background-color: yellow;">have</font> some sandwiches and finally, <font style="background-color: yellow;">at</font> around 9.30 p.m<font style="background-color: yellow;">,</font> we have dinner. Sometimes we have <strike>dinner</strike> soup and eggs,  chicken, or fish and fruit of course.

<strike>How are you</strike> <font style="background-color: yellow;">What is your</font> daily meal routine? Is it very different from mine?

Could you check my text, please? Thank you.