What kind of English do you need?

 Howdy guys

I realized that I've spent more time trying to improve my pronunciation (and speaking skills) than my writing ability, in order to do it better in an academic way.

I doubt if the time and effort spent have been correctly applied, because as an academic person (I am for up to now a Ph.D candidate) producing and publishing articles in English have a great value. Certainly, who just know formal and written English forms can't communicate in a common and natural way, but neither me.

I'll gain more credit if I could write a correct English paper, definitely much more than what I've achieved until now with my pronunciation. In fact I really need to write in a perfect English, but the problems is, I am also confuse about how to do that, i.e., what kind of study activities could help me improve. If there were someone who could correct my mistakes and show me what I must to study and practice more that would be great. However, as they say, make do with what you have.

So I will continue to study on my way and trying to figure out more useful and efficient manners to do it. Anyway, I think that continuing to improve my listening and speaking also will help me to go further.

Do I Speak English?

Hi, my friend! How you is life? Good I am sure.

What should I answer? I've thought about this and finally jumped to a conclusion that the answer (maybe the only one I really could conclude) is yes, I can speak English. Maybe it's not possible to say I speak English correctly, but I speak of course some English. Sure, I have had few chances to speak with a native speaker or fluent person. However what I know (I think) is sufficient to state that I speak (some) English. I mean, I strongly believe that what I try to say in English (in any situation) is comprehensible enough (maybe not so so easy) to anyone fluent to understand what I'm saying.

Do you know GoldList?

What is a language but a bunch of words and meanings? This is a right question but not a correct answer. Vocabulary is a main part of a language of course (the word, its meaning and pronunciation), but it does not represent the whole thing a language is. Anyway, if you don't have a solid and vast vocabulary I'm not sure you really can speak a language.

This is the reason I started GoldList method. Seriously, I am not sure if it really increases the known vocabulary more than any others traditional methods, but is certainly a funny and easy way to study a language (I'm doing this with English and French, and also thinking to do the same with Spanish, Swedish and Papiamento).

The unique problem is maybe how much money I'll spend (with note books and pens). This is a kind of problem when you have a family to feed and live in a country with so many social and economic distortions. But we can always improvise with used sheets of paper.

If you don't know (anything) about GoldList method, I think this video is very comprehensible:

Why I Failed as a Professional?

How you do, blogger friend?

Maybe you are the only one reader I have of this blog, but I don't blame you because I haven't written as much as I could. Then, you asked me why I failed as a professional. Although I'm not sure what do you mean about that, I'll try to answer you to the limits of my possibility.

First of all, the question implies that I failed or have failed because your why-question. I can say I haven't failed, it is true, or at least I believe that I have not failed, but instead, I can say I failed in a way or another at some point in my life. To be more precise, I had an ascending career, but I just changed it to something I didn't know at that time what it would be, and though I'm doing good things now, it really could be different (but who knows?). I changed not only for reasons of choice, but because I failed, yes, I assume that I failed.

I made a team, and for some years I was a leader with great perspective. My fault was I didn't pay any attention to what goodness or useful the other members could have given me or even if they were giving me something, and I put all of me in that work and team-work. The true is that I gave everything I could sillily, and the result was that everybody took what they needed from me, and nobody gave me what they should given me. Hence, when I hadn't any more to add I just turned into a discarded weight.

Anyway, I could have tried for myself alone, but that time I hadn't noted how it would be possible and I simply quit. But God was always good to me and today I am not where I wanted to be, but nor in a so bad position.

Post Scriptum: "Why I failed question" maybe was motivated by the fact that I've asked for contribution  to write in English on this blog, but I think they do not have any (necessary) relation because I asked for financial support just as an extra motivation and to (try to) see how far anyone can go to help another person (me in the case) to learn something (a language in this example).

Now it is your time to talk to me and say what you think about. If you want to give me financial help (for any reason you want), please, read my post:
http://speakisamazing.blogspot.com.br/2016/07/gain-post-or-give-donation.html