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I think I am crazy. Today I made an incription for CPE in June. Yes, I will make this exam again. The first time I made it was on 13 th December 2007, I was ill and the results were terribly bad. This time I hope to get a better mark (at least C). I have to prepare this exam completely alone and the worst thing for me is writing and speaking. I usually see films in English. Grammar it is not so difficult, but you I need to practice again because I forgot a lot. My vocabulary is terrible and I always have problems with "connectors", "phrasal verbs" and using the right tense. I don't know. I just think I am very nervous. I will do my best, but maybe I am not still ready for it and the worse is that 80% the candidates are younger than me (just 16 or 17 years old!!). At least, they were that time when I took up this exam. It was like a nightmare; completely alone there, among teens and feeling completely sick. Wish me luck, because I will need it! Hugs and kisses, ...

Hello buddies! How are you doing? I have found this interesting article on the website "askoxford" and, of course, I would like to share it with all of us. I hope you like it. Take care!! Five Events that Shaped the History of English Philip Durkin, Principal etymologist at the Oxford English Dictionary, chooses five events that shaped the English Language. The Anglo-Saxon Settlement It's never easy to pinpoint exactly when a specific language began, but in the case of English we can at least say that there is little sense in speaking of the English language as a separate entity before the Anglo-Saxons came to Britain. Little is known of this period with any certainty, but we do know that Germanic invaders came and settled in Britain from the north-western coastline of continental Europe in the fifth and sixth centuries. The invaders all spoke a language that was Germanic (related to what emerged as Dutch, Frisian, German and the Scandinavian languages, and to Gothic), bu...

Hello to everybody! Here is my blog. Well, to tell you the truth I am not really inspired right now. I would like to delight you with a poem or a beautiful prose like Shakespeare, Goethe or our admired Cervantes. I regret, but now I am not in the mood. Hopefully my English will be better by the next time. In fact, English has always being my favourite foreign language. You can communicate and have contact with anyone in the world if you speak this "global" language. And I adore this possibility; no frontiers, no barriers for knowing another cultures, people and countries. I think you enjoy more your life being open-minded. You can learn a lot from another people and you can show some positive aspects of your culture too. I think we are not so different from "them". We are all human beings; we have all similar dreams and aims in our lifes. Everyone wants to be happy, do what he or she likes (and do better), offer the world her or his best and have truly emotional exp...