Advice to improve your English. (Week 15)

Writing blogs in English every week can help your brain to start working quicker when it comes to develop a theme in your second language. It's good to have a different topics to discuss every week. This way, students get to look for vocabulary of different fields. 

Nevertheless, it would be good to have more requirements and restrictions when it comes to develop the theme of the week. Restrictions and requirements such as, to make a few researchers and include them in a bibliography, number of words, to watch a few videos to comment on them... Different ways when it comes to write about a topic. 

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To improve my English I've been doing exercises about multiple choice and open cloze due to the English grammar.

Color meaning. (Week 14)

Morning Bloggers, are you keeping up with all the food this Christmas? 😂
I was pretty busy these previous days but I don't forget you!
Today I'm going to discuss the following topic: Color meaning and Symbolism. To give my opinion I'm going to continuously reference the next article from Rebecca Gross. She entitles this article as "Color Meaning and Symbolism: How to use the Power of Color in your Branding" and here I leave you the content https://www.canva.com/learn/color-meanings-symbolism/.

Is it true that any color conveys a meaning? In my opinion colors can stand for certain feelings, institutions, countries, sensations... anything that I can think of. When you think about a particular color, there must be an idea that come straight to your mind.
Let's think about the color red for example. What have you thought of in the first place? The first idea that has come to my mind is Christmas. Obviously, the different associations to colors depend on other factors such as one's culture or ideology. Therefore, if you ask a Jewish person on Christmas the same question about the color red, he or she probably is going to come up with other associations.

Additionally, not always a color has positive connotations. Rebecca Gross mentions in her article that the color red, not only has positive connotations but also negative ones. Red can be the color of fire, blood or danger. However, it can be also the color of love and passion. Sometimes these connotations are attached to a particular color just because that certain material or fluid in reality has the same tone of color, as happens with blood. But, what about abstract concepts? Abstract notions are not represented in reality with a physical shape. Thus, we cannot visualize the color of them. Nevertheless, through history, people have always been attaching colors to certain abstract ideas due to their relation with other visual concepts in reality. A good example is the concept of love. Love has been always represented by the red color. An explanation for this attribution can be the relation of the heart with the abstract concept of love. You love with your heart and the heart is red. As a result, love must be represented with the color red.

The same happens with the rest of the colors although the number of associations to them can vary. In the article of Rebecca we can see a few examples of colors and their possible "universal" associations. Nonetheless, as I have mentioned before, these associations to a particular color is a question of culture and ideology.



Through the using of colors in a particular picture we can also deduce the emotions and feelings that an author wants to emit. Here I present a well-known painting of Edvard Much which is called "The Scream".

In this picture the author is using strong colors as red, yellow or blue to highlight the intensity of the character's expression. And you, what do you think?
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To improve my English I've been doing exercises about multiple choice and open cloze due to the English grammar.

Making decisions. (Week 13)

Hello everyone!

Today I'm going to do a short review about not a movie but a TV show called "13 Reasons Why" have you watched it? 

13 Reasons Why is "an american drama-mystery web television series" created by Brian Yorkey. The main protagonists of the TV show are Hannah Baker and Clay Jensen. In the first chapter of the season Hannah Baker is introduced as a character who has recently died. The following chapters are about a series of contributions that have been enough for Hannah to kill herself. Both the audience and rest the characters of the TV show get to know all her reasons to her own death through 14 tapes that she has recorded herself. 

This TV show has gained a great success due to the plot that it develops. The principal location of the plot is the high school, where all these characters spend most of their time. This high school is as one where you can feel an atmosphere of prejudices upon people. There is this division between the popular ones and the nerd ones. Hannah is not categorized in any of these groups, she is depicted as the weirdo of the high school due to she is the new one. 

Hannah's contact with this new atmosphere is not quite successful. She tries to make friends but these friends seems not to be the ones that last long. Therefore, Hannah starts to collect her bad experiences all together which give rise to her fatal inner emotional state. Consequently, as she cannot bear this situation, she puts an end to her life. 

The plot of this TV show can be pretty influencing from a negative point of view. I like how the characters are performing on stage as you can take them seriosly, nevertheless this does not mean I like the plot. Hannah's exaggerion of her feelings is taken to an extreme which is not the solution to her situation. The solution to students who can be bullied both psychologically and physically, they must go to the authority in each case, and let know what is actually happening.

This TV show has shown a negative morality when it comes to give a "solution" to Hannah's life. As a conclusion, I think it is not the solution to bullying and that they should clarify this idea in the following seasons.
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I'm continuing doing exercises of word formation and rewritings to improve my English grammar constructions.

Have a nice weekend!

The Fashion Show. (Week 12)

Interview 

Jennifer Lawrence interviews Kim Kardashian: This is what we learned: 

1. Jennifer Lawrence got drunk with Kris Jenner.

"I've never seen my mom more drunk in our lives," Kardashian said about Lawrence's recent trip to Jenner's mansion for dinner and drinks. "I was way more drunk than your mom," Lawrence told her. "You take it easy on your mother." Kardashian and her husband, Kanye West, also attended the dinner, where Lawrence apparently asked Kardashian for gas relief medicine (hence the farting question).

2. If Kim was stranded on a desert island with her family, she'd kill Khloe last ... or maybe first.

Lawrence asked who Kardashian would kill last if she were stranded on a desert island with her family. "My kids?" Kardashian said. "Oh, wow, I forgot children ... now I feel guilty," Lawrence joked, before pivoting the question to just include Kardashian's famous siblings. Kardashian said she'd kill Khloe last "because I feel like she might kill me."

"Well then, Khloe would actually be the one you'd have to kill first," Lawrence noted.

3. Kanye West can fall asleep pretty much anywhere.

Lawrence asked about the weirdest thing Kardashian's husband does. "He falls asleep anywhere. He'll introduce me to people I've never met before and we'll be at a restaurant and he'll be, like, snoring at the table," Kardashian said.

Report on the interview 

In the first part of the interview it can be seen how Kardashian admits that she had not seen her mom more drunk in their lives. Nevertheless Lawrence reacts to this admission affirming that she was way more drunk that Kardashian’s mother. Apart from this, Lawrence said to Kardashian to took it easy on her mother.

In the second part of the interview Kardashian was asked who she would kill last on a desert island. To this question Kardashian responded that she would kill her kids with a sarcastic tone. Additionally she said that she had forgotten children and therefore, she felt guilty. Later on, Kardashian changed her mind and she said that would kill Khloe last because she felt like she might kill her. To this reaction, Lawrence noted that Khloe then would actually be the one who Kardashian would have to kill will have first. 

In the third part of the interview, Kardashian was asked about the weirdest thing that her husband did. She mentioned that he felt asleep anywhere and that he would introduce her to people she had never met previously and that they would be at the restaurant where he would be like snoring at the table. 

Here I show you some of my favorite trendy clothes that Kardashian is wearing:

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As I’ve mentioned in the previous post, this week I’ve been looking for exercises to practice word formation and phrasal verbs in English.

You live and learn. (Week 11)

Hello bloggers! how are you doing? 

The topic of today is “you live and learn”. I’m sure everybody has thought about going abroad and staying there for a couple of years to study. Nevertheless, information about programs that allow you to study abroad seem to be like taboo topics in the educational system. Nobody provides information about the great variety of programs that we have to study abroad, except for the Erasmus scholarship. Luckily, nowadays having internet we can make our own research about all these programs that offer this experience of going abroad to study. 

The decision of going to study to other countries depends on the situation of each one. A student can have the opportunity to study abroad not only in college but also in high school. There are also another programs that offer the activity of going to achieve academic skills abroad during the summer. 

Any program has its own requirements in terms of grades, language, price, locations… therefore, having decided your preferences, I’m sure you can find a program that suits your profile you perfectly. 

Having spent awhile looking for different types of programs of studying abroad, here I provide you the list of ones of the most successful ones: 

To study abroad in high school during both the academic year and the summer: 

— https://www.aspirebyapi.com/summer-study-abroad/ireland/dublin/walton-international-stem-experience/program-information

— https://forum-nexus.com/study-abroad-programs/forum-europe-summer-2018.asp?fnsrc=63

— https://www.aspirebyapi.com/summer-study-abroad/france/paris/french-language-immersion-program/program-information/

To study abroad in college during both the academic year and during the summer:

— https://www.cisabroad.com/?s=summer 

— http://www.fie.org.uk/programs/by-term/summer

— https://teanabroad.org/programs/summer-programs/

I strongly recommend to any student of any professional field to try one of these wonderful experiences. It will be a great positive point for your CV I promise!

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This week I’ve been looking for exercises to practice word formation and phrasal verbs in English. Challenging exercises! 

Reports and proposals. (Week 10)

In this blog I'll present you and an example of a report and a proposal to stand up the different parts of them. Additionally, this will show how they differ from each other.

Here I provide the link where we find a good example of a report of the Brooklyn book festival: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/09/report-on-the-brookyn-book-festival-2009.html. 

Now, I'll copy and analyze the different parts of the report for you to see how it is constructed. 

Introduction: Maybe not every community should have a book festival, but Brooklyn, N.Y., showed how to throw an excellent one Sunday. With more than 150 booksellers, magazines and other bookish folks set up in tents on the plaza in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall, and dozens of free readings and panel discussions, the event was accessible (some people just stumbled on it) and festive (they stayed).

Discussion of where poetry, rock and hip-hop intersect focused:A must-attend panel, moderated by Touré, featured hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and poets Tracie Morris and Matthew Zapruder. Their discussion of where poetry, rock and hip-hop intersect focused on words. Fiasco -- who resisted fans' efforts to get him to say when his album will be released -- explained that before he worked with music and beats, he filled notebooks with words. "I had a plethora of words," he said. "See how many pieces I could collect." Zapruder concurred, saying, "I find words that attract me ... and I set myself this task of making something out of them." But Moore saw words as a mutable part of rock and roll, "slurred language," which could be misheard and mis-sung, unintentionally making songs over.

Future of literature and publishing:Two separate panels wrangled with the question of the future of literature and publishing. In the first, author T Cooper lamented, "I can't help but talk about the business, when I want to talk about the art"; Keith Gessen responded, "I like to talk about publishing. I live in New York, it's fun to talk about publishing." But the business got less attention than the Internet, blogs in particular, which were seen as amateurish and inclined toward posting book reviews next to cat photos (guilty as charged). An audience member -- writer Emily Gould -- asked what the future of literary fiction might be "if there's a consistent refusal to meet the audience where it lives," (i.e., online). Later, Gessen insisted that Gould had not been a plant.

"I do think people read differently online," Granta's editor John Freeman said in the second panel. "The trick now is to somehow make literature seem urgent." The worthwhile discussion was taped by C-Span for later broadcast; moderator Maud Newton suggested that literature had long been affected by evolving technologies -- and maybe our digital future isn't so bad. Despite the many looming challenges, this panel seemed optimistic. "In 10 years we'll look back on this conversation and laugh," said Dwight Garner from the New York Times. "Solutions that we cannot yet foresee will arise."

Comparison between contributors in Los Angeles Times Festival of books and The Brooklyn Book Festival: The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books had its own panel, featuring Angelenos who write about Los Angeles: L.A. Times books contributor Richard Rayner ("A Bright and Guilty Place"), Nina Revoyr ("The Age of Dreaming") and Judith Freeman ("The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved"), as well as David L. Ulin, L.A. Times books editor and editor of the Library of America anthology "Writing Los Angeles."

But a great number of the more than 200 authors that appeared at the Brooklyn Book Festival have lived in Brooklyn, including Paul Auster, Edwidge Danticat, Jonathan Lethem, Francine Prose and Colson Whitehead. The last appeared in the impressive marble-and-wood Borough Hall Courtroom and took this photo before his presentation, showing what it's like to be an author looking into the audience.

Conclusion: It's both wonderful and disappointing that the Brooklyn Book Festival takes place in just one day. For those who organized it, it's got to be a relief that it's over; but if it had lasted longer, I might not have had to choose between Jonathan Lethem and Mary Gaitskill (the latter, apparently, sang a Pizza Hut advertising jingle) and Jonathan Ames and David Cross, whose shenanigans closed out the main stage with much laughter. 

Here I provide another link. This time, with an example of a proposal http://grit.fltr.ucl.ac.be/article.php3?id_article=40&. This text is quite long to quote but it can be seen how the author proposes different plans to the reading of the book. She is making her own suggestions and opinions on the reading. 

Here through this outline of a proposal texts we can have an idea of the different parts that compose it:

Basically, the difference between both types of texts is that a report has as an aim to inform and the proposal has as an objective to make suggestions on something, that is, to propose regarding a theme. 

Urban living. (Week 9)

Hello bloggers! how is it going?

This week I'll introduce you to a place where I'd like to live for a short period of time in my life, even when I'm 50 years old. Its name is Kerala, are you related to this state? It is located in the south of India, being its capital Trivandrum. People who live in Kerala speak Malabar but I'm sure you can communicate with them in English as well. Its climate is categorized as tropical wet due to is the Arabic Sea. This state has an amazing vegetation as you can observe as soon as you look for its pictures. In fact, it is one of the places where you can find one of the best spices in the world. Additionally, Kerala is known worldwide for its tea gardens. I'm a tea person and this would be one of the main reasons for why I'd love to visit its area. Apart from its tea, as it is a tropical area, it has plenty of fruits to offer and I LOVE exotic fruits. Tropical fruits is something that in my country I cannot find. We barely good mangos.
In Kerala you can find from secure natural national parks to really wild places and I do love this combination when it comes to explore around. In addition to it, this environment encourages you to practice a great variety of sports. Surfing is one the "extreme" sports that I like to practice and Kerala is supposed to have good waves to practice it.
Will I visit this state someday to experience all the things previously mentioned? We'll see... Here I leave you some pics to give you an idea of what I am talking about 😄.

Other places I'd like to live to stay for a short term:

I'd love to stay in Vancouver because it combines different environments and sports that I like.

I'd like to stay in New Zealand, not any place in special but I'd like to go there and explore its vegetation.
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This week I've been reading in English to keep improving it! 💪

"Best" invention ever. (Week 8)

Have you ever had quarrels with your brother or sister because he or she has just eaten your most valued dessert? In my case, I've had these types of quarrels like thousands times with my brother.
My brother Pedro loves food more than I do and whatever he wants to eat, no matter what, he is going to get it. I've tried to hide food anywhere in the kitchen but he always finds it. I don't know how he does it but he has a good guessing.

When we were kids and we used to wake up at the same time to go to school we already had our breakfasts prepared by my mum. The first thing my brother Pedro normally did was to get into the kitchen and leave a spit in the glass of milk that apparently had more ColaCao as a mark that that one was the glass of milk that he was going to drink later. This may sounds funny, but it was real.
Another striking anecdote used to happen when my family met for lunch time and there were chips to eat. You couldn't turn your head to watch the TV because as soon as you did it he would steal all your chips from your plate. So yes, when I say that my brother Pedro loves food, I really mean it.

Nevertheless, here I present a really good invention to everyone that has this problem. Ice cream is something that everyone likes and might get upset if something eats it before they do. This is a good remedy if you want to keep away your favorite food from food thieves.

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A good method to acquire more vocabulary in English is to write down at least 10 words from your TV series everyday, that is, 10 words which you didn't know before and take a look at them before going to bed creating a sentence with each of them. I started to do that this weekend and it's a good method to remember new vocabulary.
I just can watch TV shows during weekends but this way will help me to increase the list of my English vocabulary.

What is a successful business? (week 7)

Good evening everybody!

How is your week going? mine is fine, not too exhausting as the last one but I needed it!

Today I'll talk about the definition of a successful business. What is a successful business for you? 

The path to make a business successes can be quite challenging due to all the obstacles you have to go through although eventually, it's worthy.

When you think about a successful business probably first things that come to your mind are: Starbucks, Zara, Facebook, Ryanair...Companies like these ones achieved an action within a specific period of time becoming then successful companies, reason for why everybody nowadays knows. 

Richard Russell defines successful business as a "successful company which behaving ethically and legally, creates value, independent of the owners efforts. This usually results in a sustained stream of profit, and a positive market value, representing the anticipated future profits." Not everything depends on the owners but also in the product that this company presents to the market. The owners have to first show a positive attitude which is one of the most important aspects to success in the market. Alex Pirouz supports this idea by saying "One of the most important steps you can take toward achieving your greatest potential in business is to learn to monitor your attitude and its impact on your work performance, relationships and everyone around you." Together with this topic, there are five possible steps to achieve a positive attitude in order to success in your business:

1. Become solution focused.

2. Mind control. 

3. Create your desire. 

4. Educate yourself. 

5. Just do it! 

(These steps are explained more in detail in  https://www.businessblogshub.com/2012/11/7-steps-to-a-positive-attitude-better-sales/ )

Achieving a good attitude would contribute to the creation and the representation of the products that a company will offer to the audience in order to get future profits. Depending on the statistics of the profits, the results would determine wether the company is succeeding or not in the market. 

Good luck!

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What did I do this week to keep up with my English? Well, last weekend one of my friends from Ireland came to visit me to Spain and we stayed in Madrid. We had such a wonderful weekend, I really loved it. Besides, we had the time to visit Toledo. As he didn't speak much Spanish, I was able to practice English with him during the whole weekend. Luckily, I'll see him again in a month in Ireland, I'm looking forward to it. Have a nice weekend everyone!

Connections. (Week 6)

Hi Kezia,

I’m so happy to hear about you, what great news that you got your masters degree. Here in Spain everything is going well, I’m a little bit overwhelmed with college but I can cope with it. As you know here I cannot speak English with anyone, but still, I get by practicing it everyday. The best way to practice it for me is to speak with native speakers with whom I can develop my fluency. My university provides certain programs that allow international students to meet Spanish students to get to know each other. Firstly we have the “buddy program”. This program opens up at the beginning of the course and it facilitates the contact between an international student and a Spanish one. This way, the Spanish student somehow adopts this other international student to make easier his staying in Spain. Actually, I met Camille through this program. She is french and we get along on really well. Secondly, there are other meetings that are called “Tandem” where people from all around the world join in and practice different languages, specially English. 

Apart from these programs, there are other ways to help you going on practicing English with native speakers via internet, but you know… it’s better face to face. Anyway, every week I phone either my american family or my Irish friend and this way, it also helps me to pick up my level of fluency. 

Best,

Loli. 

Here I write down some webpages that help to know how to write formal letters:

1. https://www.usingenglish.com/resources/letter-writing.php

2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/factsheet/en11lett-l1-f-writing-formal-letters

3. http://www.hiedracenters.com/clubdeingles/how-to-write-a-formal-letter/

This week, apart from keeping in touch with my American relatives I have applied for a course in English-Spanish literary translation so that I can consolidate my English! 

Have a nice day!

The worst job of my life would be... (week 5)

Hello everybody!

Maybe you have already thought what your dream job would be, however, have you ever wonder which job would be the worst of you life? Just think about the opposite you like.

In my case, I study languages and literature. Therefore, everything that has to do with translation, interpretation, subtitling, editing... those activities involving languages, these are my aspirations in life. I'd love to be a famous dancer thought, but let's not dream too high! 😂
Math was always my enemy as I've never got on well with numbers. Consecutively, a job that would have to do with mathematics would be the worst of my life. I would never be able to keep up with this type of job as I wouldn't have the skills required to do so.

My grandfather was a taxi driver. He wasn't as lucky as I'm since his parents didn't have enough money to pay for his studies. The only decision to push him to work as a cab driver was because he liked cars and he liked to drive. These seems like few and poor reasons to choose what to do for your whole life, right? Unfortunately, life wasn't very easy 50 years ago and from my viewpoint I see far more cons back then. Some of the disadvantages people had 50 years ago are the following ones: salaries were very low so no all parents could afford helping their children to study; there were not enough scholarships for everybody; there were not as many technological devices as we have now that could make students easier to expand their academic knowledge...  As a result, people nowadays count with numerous possibilities to get a better future.

Fortunately, I'm studying English because I want to dedicate my future to interpret languages. Therefore, every day I chat with native speakers so I can keep improving my English!

How to ask for advice and give advice. (week 4)

What forms or expressions do we use to ask or to give advice? 

1. In the following text we find some examples that can give us an idea: 

"Paid cleaning help can be a wonderful short-cut to a clean and organized home--if the household budget can stand the cost. But what do you do if the Prize Patrol bypassed your door this year? I recommend you to take a speed-cleaning lesson from the pros! Paid cleaning services are masters of the art of speedy, efficient cleaning. You should watch professional cleaners at work: they don't waste time, cut corners or dawdle over the job--and they know how to clean fast, clean right.To speed cleaning chores in your organized home, I advice you take a tip from their copybook. Try these tips from professional cleaners."

2. Here, there is another text in which we can find several modal verbs:

"Xavier is an intelligent guy and he plans to go to medical school. He thinks he may get a better job when he graduates. At the moment, Xavier is working at a supermarket and he can't pay for his studies or buy books, so he should try to get into a public college. Xavier is the oldest child and he feels he must do something to help his younger brothers and sisters as he already noticed they will need his support. Xavier is brave, determined and doesn't complain about life because he knows that things could be worse than they are now."

The specific meaning of these modal verbs are:

a. May - probability

b. Can't - impossibility

c. Should - ability

d. Must - moral obligation 

e. Could - probability

3. In the last few weeks I'd done several acts in order to keep improving my English. Some of them which help me a lot are: 

a. Phoning my American family every week so that I can keep a conversation in English during an hour or so. This helps me a lot in order to improve my fluency in my second language. 

b. Reading books and articles. Every week I've several articles to read due to college homework. Reading provides me with new vocabulary which I can use to improve my academic skills. 

c. Traveling to a foreign country. Last weekend I went to Ireland and I practiced my oral skills for at least 4 days. Irish accent sometimes is so difficult to understand so this way I can get used to different accents in English and therefore, improving my listening skills. 

d. Watching TV shows. I don't have too much time to watch TV shows but I can watch them every other weekend at least. Normally I add Spanish/English subtitles in order to understand fully what characters are saying. In my opinion, I find Spanish subtitles more helpful due to I can see the translation of any word. 

e. Studying English grammar. From time to time I write lists of phrasal verbs, expressions or word formation in order to acquire a more specific code in the English language. 

Have a good weekend! 

Would I like to be in the public eye? (week 3)

Hi everyone! how is your week going?

Today I'm going to discuss a trending topic that I'm sure everyone would like to participate on making either positive or negative opinions about it.

The key question is: would you like to be in the public eye?, that is, would you like to be known by a great bunch of people or would you instead regret it?
Someone can be in the public eye for numerous reasons but I'm going to relate this question with the app of Instagram which is a social network in where a lot of people, mostly teenagers, introduce themselves as bloggers.
Instagram is one of the social network that is now at the peak due to the considerable number of users that are currently making use of it. Between these users it can be found people, normally teenagers, who called themselves bloggers. The purpose of these bloggers is to gain the greater number of followers in order to get fame and thus, making money through this. However, how do they gain followers?. These bloggers have to know how to catch people's attention and consecutively, keep them as followers. Considering this point, these people like to be in the public eye and for this reason they are constantly uploading pics showing their physical appearance. Some of them thanks to this method have achieved to be written about in magazines or to be seen on television.

Personally, I think everyone has their ambitions and can do whatever they want with their lives. I wouldn't like to be in the public eye through Instagram because from my viewpoint I think it would just be a waste of time for me. I have certain ambitions and neither of them has to do with worrying about which pictures I should upload to get more likes. Nonetheless, I respect that for some people their main concern could be, for example, gaining fame by showing how excellent they are at combining clothes from Zara.

I don't mind if I have 0 likes 😁

Now, what do you think about it?  

Loli. 

Special encounters in special places. (Week 2)

Hello again everyone!

Today I'm going to talk a little bit about my second mum who is from New York. I have to say that this woman has such a big heart that doesn't fit in her chest.  She offered me the opportunity of traveling to the States several times and thanks to her I've visited Minnesota, New York, California and Nevada. I mentioned before that she is my second mum because she treats me like her daughter. We've been through quite a lot places together, specially restaurants since we both love to try different types of food.

Last summer, when I was in California I started to learn how to surf and honestly, it was such a great experience! In Spain I cannot really practice this sport and so it's going to be difficult to put into practice what I've learnt in Cali. Nevertheless, I've never been to Hawaii and due to the fact that there is really good surfing there, I would just go to try the challenge! 

However, going to Hawaii would be quite expensive so I do need to save money to achieve that dream. But, what would I do if I had enough money? First of all, I would invest that money on properties that would double my money in a future, such as hotels or airbnbs. Then, depending on what I would have left from that amount of money, I would travel around the world. Traveling is the biggest gift there is in this world so nothing would make me happier than that. Apart from that, I would design my dream house myself and I would buy a car that would facilitate driving the most. 

Best, 

Loli. 

Some tips to help you with your writing in English. (Week 1)

How can you improve your English in writing if you are living in a country where people don’t even speak that language? 

Nowadays, learning how to write proper English is not a challenging task to confront since there are several and enough tools which can help us to make a progressive improvement in an academic way. Having mentioned this, there is not necessity to move to an English speaking country if we have the accurate tools to conduct this improvement. Internet, as a system, has incredibly grown in the last decade facilitating researches of anything it can be thought about. Accordingly, it can be found any explanation we need to help our writing in English as well as the content of a lot of books. Nonetheless, people have to be careful sometimes since not all the information that is showed in Internet has to be true. Google scholar is much more accurate in this sense, therefore, this system is totally recommended when it comes to academic purposes. 

On the other hand, Netflix is also a potential source of learning if you watch TV shows, movies or documental in original version plus English subtitles. I’ve pointed out Netflix, but there are other similar webpages which offer the same characteristics. This way, you can hear and read at the same time how words are pronounced and written and not only this, but also, between other benefits, how sentences are composed. The last and the most important point to be mentioned in my post regarding tools to improve the writing of learners of English is reading. Reading can clearly help learners of any language and there are no limitations when it comes to choose what to read. There are plenty of options such as newspapers, magazines, comics, novels or articles. 

These are some ways to help you with a progressive improvement in the writing of your English. What about you? is there anything else apart from what I have mentioned that help you notably in the writing of your English? 

Don’t be a conformist and keep improving! 

Best ♥,

Loli.