About my motivation to learn English

Hi, It's me, Tetsuya (aka t2y).

I'm a programmer and I like Python programming. Do you know Python? It's the name of a programming language name.

From last year to this year, I attended 2 Python conferences held at in Italy and the United States. I had good time to communicate comunicating with foreign developers. And Then, I found it's a great thing for me to collaborate with them. So, I decided to learn English more and more.

As I learning English, I have been interested in their other cultures or and life in the world. Not only programming topic, but I want to talk about various topics.

I wish to be your friend and talk with me you in English casually.

I think speaking with a non native would be helpful for practicing, and if you are both around the same level you could learn together. You could also help motivate each other. However, its easy to make mistakes that go uncorrected, or even get corrections that aren't accurate, which could be very confusing.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself

Hello.
I am here to learn English. My school suggested this page to us to improve in the language, and thus to be able to obtain the certification.
<em>(I'm just guessing on the last sentance)</em>
I need aid from someone that is willing to help me progress in learning the eastern language.
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Hope that helps. =)</em>

This is tough question to answer, but I will do my best. They all have a similar meaning, but they can imply different things. "I had lost her." This is personal. The person speaking has lost the girl. All the others are Impersonal. "She was lost." lost can imply that she doesn't know how to get back. "She was missing." missing here can suggest that no one knew where to find her, but she may not be lost. This also implies she has been found, and is no longer missing. "She went missing." This can imply a longer time has passed. This could refer to the time it happened. As in She went missing a week ago. "She was gone." This can imply she will not be coming back, but can also imply she just walked away and is not lost or missing. "She had gone." This implies that she chose to leave. Hope that helps.

Hello and nice to meet you : )

"I'm a Chinese girl live in South China."
Should be either "I'm a Chinese girl living in South China." or "I'm a Chinese girl and I live in South China."

Other then that, well done.

Thanks for answering my question.