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Hello there! I'm a 27F studying English, but I was focused more on passive abilities, like reading and listening. Now I want to start to improve my pronunciation, that's why I need a reading partner.
How does it work?
Voice call on discord. Once a week for 30 minutes, I think? I'm a freelance Illustrator, so my schedule it's pretty flexible. We can organize this easily, I guess.
What should my partner do?
Well... Listen to me reading. š
Correct my pronunciation and explain some words that I don't know the meaning of. I will use these words to make my vocabulary Anki cards.
That's it!
I gonna put in the comments what kind of things I usually read, but I'm open to new experiences. Just the fact that someone it's using your time to help me it's already a victory. š
Thanks for your time. I hope all of you guys have a nice day! šš»
Hello! I am 28F, offering English, friendship, and awkward initial conversation who is learning Brazilian Portuguese!
I'm still very new and have only used a few apps on my phone to learn, but I would love to interact with someone who is a native speaker. I'm open to answering questions, exchanging stories and more.
This is perfect! I need help with my Portuguese reading, and can definitely help out with English (I'm a native speaker)!!!!
Iām not interested in learning your language completely, but you sound like you have a personality and seem cool, so if you want some practice in English, I can totally help you!
I can help you with your English. Read Stephen king for me lol. But yea sure half an hour a week does not mean seem too taxing.
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I think reading certainly helps, but honestly in my own experience, I think that in order to develop a language you have to practice speaking. I think it is the best way to start actively coming up with your ideas and ādeveloping your personalityā in the language you want to learn. I just say this, because just like you I used to read and watch a lot of content in my target language and with that I learned a lot of vocabulary, but for the longest time I had trouble even talking about myself. Anyway, I am also Brazilian so if you need any help shoot me a message, but I would consider maybe instead of reading a book just talking about.
I think this is the most fun thing about it. We read the book, we talk about the book and other things. I did this in Italian and helps me a lot.
At the end of the book, my speaking Italian becomes better, I'm more confident to speak and my partner was a very funny guy too!
But if this stops to works, I will just speak with people, hehe! Thanks for your advice, u/Tip_ddnt! >.<
Glad to help, I donāt know if that is what you want but Iāll fix a couple of the mistakes in your answer. Your english seems very good and even natives make mistakes all the time when they are typing fast, I lived for years in the US and I was always surprised by the huge amount of people, who didnāt know the difference between woman and women.
Anyway, I hope I donāt come up as a dick by pointing those minor mistakes. I just thought it could be helpful. One last thing, some cool feminist writers that I had to read in College were Virginia Wolf, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelly (her daughter). I donāt know if my education in Brazil was bad, or if I simply didnāt pay much attention for such topics in the past, but I only learned about them abroad and after reading your list of books it just felt like some good tips. Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein which is so different, than what I imagined the book would be, and it is to this day one of my favorites. Virginia Wolf is someone that I see as an English Clarice Lispector. One of my favorite books/essay from her is Shakespeareās Sister.
I think all these classics with a bit of horror are different than we imagine and still is a pleasure reading. I had read Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Dracula. Not what I expected, but it was a good experience as well.
By the way, Frankenstein it's one of my favorite books too! And curiously, I didn't know about Mary Wollstonecraft.
And I like to receive this feedback about my writing/pronunciation. I start to practice these things this month, so probably I'm making a lot of mistakes :P
iād be up for that! 22F and have been meaning to read a stephen king novel haha
Are you interested in reading andrea dworkin?
Absolutely! ā”
I'm looking forward to reading these books below (but again, I'm open to new subjects, authors, and so on)
Sci-fi, Fantasy, and/or dystopia:
Horror (and Feminism)
True Crime
Ps.: Could we please don't read anything about BTK?
Minimalism (and self-improvement?)
Yoga/Hindu Mythology (??? honestly, I don't have any idea of how to classify this š )
Basically, I'm a noob Yogi and don't know the Vedas (a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India). So, I decided to start with a book about Hindu tales to learn more about the Gods, their histories, etc. And then, read other books. I have for now:
By the way, I love mythologies in general, but I prefer Egyptian Mythology.
Ps: I have all these books on pdf, epub, or a free version for Kindle (Amazon); I could provide other books.
If you read all this, you are a warrior. Thank you again! šš»