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I know for many people keeping focus while studying is a little complicated and almost impossible. It is happening with me now. I always were a good student who liked study. However, after left university two years ago, back to study is exciting! I have been studying for IELTS for the last two and a half months, but now it is different; pressure, anxious, fear to fail are all together in my mind with English grammar and academic vocabulary. So, how to keep focus with all this in my head? Well, it's a good question that I have been looking the answer. To beginning, I had concentrated in my weakness and studied the correct use of grammar. Besides that, I have been listening radio and news to training my ears to understanding intonations, emphasis and pronunciation. Okay, this is about my studies plan. But let me talk about focus. One day, I heard from my teacher a good way that helps is have breaks while studying; he said: "after finish your homework, go for a walk or watch TV,...

I was studying this afternoon, and decided to stop for a break to not lose concentration. I took my cellphone and start to zap my feeds and I found a very interesting article about writing and how improve it. This is the link  http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2015/3-ways-writing-can-improve-your-life-today/?utm_campaign=Blog_Augment_1&utm_source=Facebook_org&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_post If you think tha write is only for intellectuals or inspirational people you maybe be wrong. Check out and leave your comments

Last week I went to a theater to attend the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival , @VLAFF , to watch OBRA, a Brazilian film direct by Gregorio Graziosi . The movie is about an architect, his new project and the implications of this in his personal life. Buy the way, a good movie in black and white with which makes a comparison between the building of material things and human beings, very interesting. But what I want to talk about is a word that appears in the subtitles and was not translate for English: SAUDADE. This word appeared followed by parenthesis with the word "I miss you" inside. From this time, my mind starts to think about the reason of the non-translation. That was no surprise for me that SAUDADE can not be translate; I learned this in school. What is unclear for me yet, is why not translate SAUDADE. Once, I heard is because in Portuguese the word means a felling. Then, I heard there is a word, "nostalgia", that is the nearest of the meaning. At this ...

What is the purpose of learning another language? Business, university, curiosity. Everyone has a reason. For me, personally, starts from the need to get a good job with a good salary. Well, with you come from a country that does not cares about education, this could be difficult. But, when I had the opportunity to travel abroad, I fell in love for the language and its features. I have started to comprehending how my native language could help me to learn English. Grammar could be extremely useful when you understand the functions of nouns, adverbs and adjectives, also passive and active voice. Many people can say that speaking English is enough to be successful. I would say that more resources are needed. As I am still learning I just can share my opinion. Maybe I am wrong, maybe I am right. Who knows?