The Story Of Creating The Web Site

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"Why does a Russian girl in her early twenties need to create
an educational site about foreign languages in English?"

My name is Julia and I am the author of Foreign Languages Guide.

I am Russian, so English is my second language.

I will tell you a short story to answer the above question.

Foreign Languages have been fascinating me since I was a child.

The first time I heard a person speaking a foreign language was actually our teacher of English at school.

I was so impressed that speaking English and going to an English speaking country “one day” became my dream. 

And here is my way of achieving this dream – from those school days till now…

Lessons at school didn’t meet my expectations. To correct it, the results weren’t impressive - I was not able to speak English after some years of studying it.

I had some basic knowledge of the language, could say simple phrases about myself and ask simple questions. Sadly, I could not keep any real conversation, it took me pretty much time to think before answering any question - I just had poor language skills.

When I turned 15, I changed the school and started taking English lessons twice a week additionally. Since that time it was a whole different story.

"Living In The USA..."

At the age of 18 years old I was lucky to go to the USA as a participant of Work and Travel program. Thanks to the program I spent two summers in the USA - in 2005 and 2006.

In the United States I tried to communicate as much as I could both with the natives and people from other countries who had mastered English.

It was pretty difficult at the beginning. I realized that my vocabulary was scanty – I knew just enough to explain some general things. But it was a problem when I wanted to express myself and explain some things in a better way.

Another thing is that I did not understand real conversations very well and I spoke pretty slowly – I had to think and find the right words before I could respond correctly.

Yes, that’s how things were at the beginning. But I was persistent and had a burning desire to speak English.

I communicated with people, spent pretty much time at a local library reading books and tried to remember as much new things as I could. At the end of the summer I could feel that I speak much better English.

That experience was invaluable for me, both for foreign language learning and my personal growth too.

After I came back to Russia I passed the TOEFL IBT test. I got 90 scores out of 120 (equivalent - 233 out of 300 (Computer-based) or 577 out of 677 (Paper-based)) which was a pretty good result!

I was happy.

Since that time English has been a part of my life.

I use it every day to communicate with people from all over the world. So I constantly develop my language skills and increase vocabulary.

Whenever I have time, I search for some new information about best language learning strategies. I try to reveal sensible methods of foreign language learning and how to achieve best results in a reasonable time.

That’s how I came up with the idea of creating Foreign Languages Guide.

I want you to benefit from my knowledge and avoid some mistakes that I’ve done.

I decided to share with you this information, which, from my personal experience, is invaluable in a language learning journey.

Make your language learning process efficient and pleasant with the help of Foreign Language Guide!

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