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I'd like to improve my english, and I want to know more about habits, culture and customs of other countries.
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Rosemary
English
Apr 30, 2012
It was great working with you today. You have very good, clear pronunciation and the vocabulary and structure necessary to convey meaning with accuracy. I wish you every success as you continue with your preparation.
Teacher A
English
Jun 4, 2010
Great job Roman, good luck on your test!
Melissa
English
May 29, 2010
Thanks Roman. I'm positive that you will do well in your exam:)
Melissa
English
May 23, 2010
Thanks Roman. Goodluck on your test!
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    <font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">To sum up, it's not up to media nor to politicians to kindle or to mitigate wars and hatred, it's up to us. It's just enough to be open to see the level of water in others' bars, and to be honest to not to earn own wealth on account of your neighbor.</font></font></font>

     

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    March 19, 2011
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    From my prospective, the main reason of all human-generated disasters is inequality. Inequality of wealth and opportunities creates tensions between social groups.
    I think of our society as of pool filled with water and divided in small areas. Each area contains a bar of water, obviously. Borders of these areas are thin and fragile. Level of water in a particular bar corresponds to the level of wealth of particular person. Every person does all his best to fill his personal bar. There is nothing dangerous if everybody around do the same and support roughly the same level of water as yours in their bars: no inequality, no tension on borders of bars. But if you build your wealthy bar while everybody around merely close the bottom, be ready that once upon a time your borders will be crashed and all your wealth equally distributed among your neighbors.
     
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    March 19, 2011
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    Hi Mohamed et al.

    There is a very interesting set of lectures on that score.  The lecturer doesn't try to find an answer on the question "why". Instead, he encourages pupils reflecting by themselves and trying to find answer on the question "how to live given the certainty  of death". Have to mention, very thoughtful, very convincing and surprisingly positive (by the way, his standpoint is firmly materialistic).

    The resource is academicearth.org :  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><a href="http://academicearth.org/courses/death">http://academicearth.org/courses/death</a> . If it seems too complicated to follow the speech, there are the transcripts too.
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    March 19, 2011
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    CONCLUSION. To sum up, there is a list of facts based on my weak experience and strong speculative assumptions:
    Conversation is explicitly asymmetric. There are two roles: talker and listener.

    - Talker should spent at least a bit of time to prepare for the session.
    - Talker should not be a pro of the subject. For example, it's often enough to tell the contents of your favorite Wikipedia article.
    - Generally talker should not expect that listener notices and fixes grammatical mistakes of his/her counterpart in the speech.
    - Generally listener should not expect, that he/she will get significant experience of speaking. On the other hand, if you're not very confident in your speaking abilities, maybe the role of listener is yours.

    Feel free to drop the subjects of your interests here.
    <em>P.S. 1000 character limitation is too boring...</em>
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    July 18, 2010
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    PREPARATION. Preparation is a talker's duty. For sure, it's hard to speak coherently for a long peroid of time. That because I jotted down the plan of my further speech just before each session, and also I read related wikipedia articles in order to brush up my knowledge and the vocabulary. Links to the Wikipedia are very useful by themselves as auxiliary sources of information.
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    July 18, 2010
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    DURATION. We had two sessions. The former conversation wasn't as long as we wanted, for about 0.5 hrs. The latter spent about 2hrs. By the end of this session I was so tired that started to mix Russian and English words, whereas Hilbert tried to make me understand German ;). Although the topic was very interesting for both of us and we had a lot of untouched subjects, we were forced to cease the conversation. The conclusion is that conversation should not be longer than 1hr, maybe even shorter, from 20 to 30 minutes.
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    July 18, 2010
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    FIRST DISCUSSION EXPERIENCE
     
    I want to thank Hilbert because of his patience and the interest for the subject.
     
    A couple of days ago Hilbert and me, we had two thematic conversations concerning UNIX/Linux operating systems and the Open Source movement. I was playing the role of talker, and Hilbert was a listener primarily. In order to encourge other italkers to participate, I'd like to share my experience of these conversations.
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    July 18, 2010
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    Let's take the topicstarter as an example. Being a developer in a web-hosting company, I can tell a bunch of useful stuff about IT and internet-related technologies
     
    - Let me tell you how does Internet work.
    <em>Technical details about the structure of the Internet as a whole, what is a web-site in a nutshell, what does HTML or DNS stand for, etc</em>
     
    - Let me tell you how does cryptography work.
    <em>Basics of the secret coding of the information and how it can be used in your life (encrypting e-mail, secure browsing, etc)</em>
     
    I can be more specific in my subjects (programming, web-programming, infosecurity, linux administration, etc), but I fear to be too boring for a casual italker. My skype id is <em>imankuloff</em>, if you want to talk to me on any particular subject, please let me know a bit in advance, I need time to put ideas in order.
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    July 6, 2010
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    Let me tell you about...
    Online chatting with both native and non-native speakers is a very efficient way to improve one's conversational skills.
     
    But it seems to me that this approach can be used not only to practising language abilities, but also to share the information on the one hand, and to know more about a particular subject on the other hand. So I suggest not just dropping your skype ids in this topic, but also expand your message by some subjects which you can tell about. It can be virtually everything: from cooking recipes through history of your country to technical details about how does combustion engine work. 
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    By the way, weather reports are the reports in which I trust the most, because these are only reports which absolutely have no intensions to deceive (at least, I cannot imagine the situation, when it would be needed) and there is a real science behind them. It is true, that there are mistakes, but these mistakes are not due to  forecasting faults, but instead mostly due to the fact, that ordinary TV-watcher doesn't get all the information and generally doesn't need all these statistically distributed values of temperature and the probability of the raining event.

    I agree with Odette, in all other areas the facts can be easily turned over, sometimes a mere intonation of the speaker is enough to form right perception.
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    June 22, 2010
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