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- I'm not english: sorry for errors. For a very basic listening, I recommend you to listen at least two "tales" a day from http://www.rong-chang.com/nse/ First, LISTEN each phrase using pause button, and then read the text, looking for new words in a online dictionary with listening words, like bab.la . At the end listen all without pausing. Read such as you need. When you get some skills, you can listen podcasts in USA english from http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html You can select topics of your interest, download them as MP3, and listen them. Each podcast contains a short dialogue an a very long explanations, spoken at low speed. At the end, you can listen the original dialog at normal speech. Another podcast for basic UK english can be found at http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/elementary-podcasts It's a good chance for you to listen basic British english. Another improvement: configure your television set to listen movies in original version (usually english) with subtitles in your language, if possible. This will remember your needs in your spare time. You can do similar things with rented movies. Don't change configuration back: listening english is an skill that requires all your effort. If you like lyrics, music can be an unvaluable ally. "The Beetles" songs are in UK english and usually are slow enough. In any case, I think watching TV in english is a better option. I hope this helps you.0 votedJuly 3, 20121
- My very first impressions about italki I'm a begginer here, in Italki. I've just come here about ten minutes ago and I'm trying to understand de development of this web site. Fortunately it seem easy to use. Last year, a partner at work told me about this web as a possible solution for my bad english pronunciation and my low speed an unaccurate speech in Shakespeare language. He had never used it before, and I don't know where he could ear about this web site. In any case, I'm here and my oral exam is near, in september. Perhaps I'd must start looking for this kind of help sooner, but I had not any hope to pass any part of my english exam (speaking, listening, writing and reading) before I did it... but I pass all but speaking! My sister recommended me a english teacher who lives in my country. To save some money, I thought it would be a good idea offering in Italki my spanish language knowledge in exchange for another one english native speaker looking for a improvement in his spanish speech. At the moment, I cannot say if it's a realistic idea. I've search for an english partner in italki but, first of all, I read and corrected an article to test italki capabilities. My correction was published after original text, but differences between them where no enhanced, making it easy to correct but difficult to the learner know where the errors are located. I think wiki-style would be more useful to debug. Another thing that amaze me is that many people is learning many languages at the time. Two could be possible, three is at the edge of I think possible, but more... ¡either are superlearners or foreign friend finders! ;-) . In actual fact, statistics reveals that spanish people are lazies studing foreign languages compared with citizens from another countries of Europe. If you want to talk with me using skype, you'll make me happy. Five minutes each could be fine. Thank you for read me, and sorry for errors.July 3, 201200
Domingo 1 de julio de 2012
Ayer fui a la cueva de Salamanca tres veces. ¿Qué es la cueva de Salamanca? La cueva está cerca del convento de San Esteban y a cinco minutos de mi piso. Hay una leyenda que Satán, el diablo, vino a Salamanca y enseñó a siete estudiantes durante siete años las artes oscuras. Varios escritores han escrito sobre el tema, incluyendo Cervantes y Quevedo. La primera vez, por la mañana, visité la cueva porque todavía no la había visitado. No es muy impresionante, sin embargo, noté que más tarde habría un concierto en la cueva, a las siete y media, y después del concierto habría una obra de teatro, a las diez. Ambos eran parte del ¿¿programa cultural?? que se llama “Salamanca, Plazas y Patios”, y que empezó el Viernes. Por lo tanto volví a la cueva a las siete y media y escuché el concierto. Fue un concierto muy pequeño con tres músicos que tocaron un piano, un violín y un clarinete. Fue muy relajante. Más tarde, volví otra vez para ver la obra de teatro. Fue una comedia y los actores hablaban muy rápidamente, por eso no entendía mucho de la representación. Sin embargo, acabó con una canción que reconocí. Fue una versión española de la canción de Monty Python: "Busque siempre el lado brillante de la vida". Después, fui a la Plaza Mayor para ver las luces. Normalmente, por la noche, la Plaza es iluminada con luces blancas. Pero, en este momento, una parte de la Plaza es iluminada rojo y amarillo. Los colores de la bandera de España. Pienso que la razón es el final de la Copa de Europa. En mi camino de vuelta al piso, vi otro concierto en el jardín del colegio de Santo Domingo. Fue un grupo se llama Red House.
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