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Hello/Hola! I am a beginner/intermediate learner looking for conversation practice in Spanish, and willing to trade for English conversation. I also grew up speaking Canadian French, although I'm a bit out of practice with that these days. I'm a professor and enjoy reading and other nerdy hobbies.
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    Why I´m learning English?

    I would answer this simple question from an emotional connection. English is the language in which the lyrics of songs are written. When I was a teenager I wanted to know what my favorites bands were saying (mainly Beatles and Queen). This fact encouraged me a lot. I think if you don´t have an emotional link to what you´re doing, you will struggle to learn. These are my first memories <s>on</s> of learning English.

    I have never been forced by my parents to learn English, but anyway I knew that was good for me. I <s>have </s>studied at a private institute for 5 years, and they strongly encouraged me in the process. My father (who <s>have </s>died many years ago) and my mother knew how important English would be <s>English </s>for me in the future. So at this point, I have found <s>find </s>my second motivation: my parents' affection

    [A few explanations here:
    1) For the two past tenses, you would use "have studied" if you started studying in the past and are continuously studying until now. You would use "I studied" if you started and completed your studying in the past. I'm not sure which meaning you intended here, but since your father passed away years ago I'm guessing you wanted "I studied at a private institute for 5 years [and then I stopped], and they strongly encouraged me in the process [during those 5 years]".

    2) For the last sentence, you would typically say either "I have found my second motivation" (if you know what your motivation is now) or "I am finding my second motivation" (if you're still not sure about your motivation, but are in the process of finding it).

    3) The apostrophe ( ' ) is difficult even for native English speakers! You use it to show possession. In Spanish, when you would say, for example, "el afecto de mis padres", in English the apostrophe replaces the "de": "my parent's affection" (if it's one parent) or "my parents' affection" (if it's both your parents).]

    When I graduated from this institute, I began to feel so frustrated because I realized I had been fully taught from books, without contact with <s>natives</s> native speakers [note: "natives" as a word by itself in some English speaking countries refers specifically to indigenous people; for the meaning you are looking for, you should use 'native' as an adjective rather than a noun]. This was more or less ten years ago. At that time, my first attempts to speak with <s>natives</s> native speakers were horrible. I was good at grammar and in reading comprehension, but I couldn´t even open my mouth! Thus, I stopped speaking and even writing in English for some 8 years.

    I decided to reverse this situation less than a year ago, when I began to speak with <s>natives</s> native speakers for the first time. I´m in my long way to be fluent because English is <s>in</s> on my to do list!
    [I'm not sure how to correct it since I'm not sure of your exact meaning here, but "I'm in my long way to be fluent" isn't idiomatic in English. Perhaps "I'm on my long way to be fluent" (i.e. I have started my journey to be fluent) or "I'm long on my way to be fluent" (I have been learning for awhile now and am far into my learning journey) or "I'm a long way from being fluent" (I have a lot of work to do because I am very far from being fluent)?]

    Thanks for reading. I tried not to use the dictionary in this text, so please correct me and suggest better expressions for saying these things naturally.

    [You did a great job, actually! I totally understand your problem - I'm having the same problem learning Spanish since I don't have anyone to speak with.]

    Thanks!
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    June 19, 2019
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    How to learn English

    hi guys
    Today, I want to tell you about my story. This is my learning English story. I have studied English for 10 years. But now, my English communication skills isn't aren't better. I started studying when I was studying at primary school. I think it was in 5th grade. I don't remember correctly. I have learned a lot of grammar and vocabulary, but . And I have rarely practised listening and speaking skills. That is the reason why I can't talk and listen well. I want to improve my English ability. I am trying to my best to do so at present.
    I'm a junior at university, and . my major is international business. It is the reason why I must have a good communication skills.
    I had read a content that if you want to be a fluent English communicator fluently, you must will practise 4 aspects, . So, I'm studying this way.
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    March 3, 2019
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    Reality Shows for Monitoring the Society's Preferences

    January 6th, 2019

    Today I took a class in English about television and after that I was wondering about the influence of this on the masses. [A more typical word for "masses" might be "public".]
    More than Over 20 years ago there was a programme in on the main TV station from of my country called “You Decide”. On it was It showed a short story in each episode and, in at some moment, one of those characters must to do make a hard decision. The TV station recorded two endings for each story and during the last advertising interval commercial break the audience called to the respective telephone number to choose which was the best way ending to follow, in line with its judgement.
    Nowadays there are the reality shows in a lot of countries and people can follow strangers 24 hours per day ["24 hours a day" would be a more common way to word this], if they want and to pay for it! As times goes by, the audience comes to care for some and dislike others get affection for ones and antipathy for others because of their behavior.
    I think the reality shows are a modern and more complex kind of “You Decide” because now they can analyze and decide about the real people's lives. For me, based in on that, it is possible to monitor the preferences of the masses. Therefore the companies can do more specific advertising for  to add value in for their products, the TV station can get a larger take more audience showing programmes with specific themes, politicians can customize their speech to achieve the mass influence the public, etc.
    Once I told about this with a friend about this and he laughed at me. And you? What do you think?


    [I agree with you!  I think reality TV is being used more for the advantage of the advertisers and TV programmers, but that the public believes there is an illusion that their choices are important.  Very insightful!]

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    January 7, 2019
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    Diary on 6th Jan, January 6th:

    Today I had breakfast in a cafe with friends. The cafe is where I have wanted to go for a long time since my housemate recommended it to me. She told me it is a very popular place and gets full quickly, so we went there exactly at the time when they open.

    The interior was very nice and pretty. Slicesd of different cakes are placed  were on a kitchen counter and it made me even more **hungry hangry. We shared three meals: french toast with apples and berries, homemade scones and squashed eggs. Everything was delicious but I especially I liked squashed eggs, which are . It is poached eggs with butternut squash, garlic butter sauce and coriander on the top. I think the sauce made it special.

    I enjoyed the time there very much. I would like to go back there soon to try other dishes!

    [** I laughed a bit here - "hangry" is used informally in North American English, but it's a made-up word that combines "hungry" and "angry" together.  It means you haven't eaten in a long time and you're really grumpy as a result.  It would still work in this sentence, if that's what you originally meant.]

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    January 7, 2019
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    Growing flowers

    I have a lot of flowers at home and the balcony looks like a garden.   I started with at first it was Chlorophytum comosum a spider plant, then begonia, daffodil, 
    Jonquil、 Alocasia macrorrhiza,     giant taro, and so on.  A banyan tree is also doing very well very prosperous ,; these are all thriving well - nourished.There was a time when I fell in love with orchids, but that thing was too difficult to keep.，Always keep bad， They never thrived but I still enjoyed them like it all the same time.
    Meat - rich plants are very popular now, so I also bought a few and cheerfully put them on the balcony.  cheerfully,this thing It can't be watered too much or it will strike.

    [Note:  I don't think "strike" is the right word at the end, but I'm not sure of your meaning here so I don't know what to suggest.]

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    January 4, 2019
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