Hey! How are you?
Hey man! I'm... can you see me?
I can! Perfectly. Can you see me?
Yeah, now I can. Well I'm very well, thank you. It's been a hectic day, I mean I'm a little bit tired, but excited to talk to you.
Nice.
Do you remember your first conversation on italki? Were you nervous?
I remember.
I was nervous. I... man, I can't remember.
I remember when I started it, I was like "Oh man, this will be the first time that I speak with native."
I always speak with, for example, a Brazilian who speaks English.
I remember, I remember the class itself, but I can't remember if I was nervous...
I think I was a bit, in the beginning,
I was really, for example, nervous, and to... to commit some mistakes.
But to be honest, if you have fear all the time, you never will learn. It's with mistakes that we learn.
I'm taking copyrighting classes.
So I'm learning how to write properly advertising.
Okay.
And then I go for the correct structure of grammar. And then people say, "But, to communicate on the streets, we don't talk like that."
Yeah.
So now I'm learning how to use Canadian street language to communicate in advertising.
For example, some words, like for example, "better" - I do not say "better"; I said "bettah"
Or for example, "chance" - these specific words I said British.
One thing that I find very interesting is:
you know, knowing the.. learning the language a culture.
Yeah!
So I started now to have American English classes, so to speak.
So in order to learn a little bit more of your culture.
How many lessons did you take in preparation for the exams, and how often?
I would say...