Writing in English

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I started this blog to try to write in English, and it has been so difficult, not only the write but to think about how to write. I don't know if is because I don't usually write in English every day, but take so much time to explain things, to feel that it is a little bit comprehensible. 

I really want to improve these skills, but I really don't know how. So, I asked Chat GPT, and it responded that the best way is to read in English and try to write. 

The feeling that I have when I write and read in English is that it takes so much time, is that I am a turtle, the slowest turtle that exists in the sand (just because turtles are too fast in water) that ever lived. I think this is because I compare my productivity in reading and writing in Portuguese, which is my native language, and it is so different! It makes me feel frustrated and sometimes demotivated.

I know that I need to get comfortable and gain experience with it, to get better in these skills and someday it will become more natural. However, the process of gaining this knowledge is not so easy or fun. I really want the process to be faster. But I don't know how to improve it! 

I feel dumb when I can't express myself or when I get lost in what time verb tense should be. Does it make sense? 

I really want to share knowledge, and I believe that English is the best way to find more people, but I am not sure about my way to pass this knowledge. To be sincere I don't know how can I write in English the things that I want to share, or sometimes I don't know what I want to share. It is a bit more difficult to have a logical rhythm using English and find the connections between sentences. 

I am not so secure about my English, so because of this to be sure that my sentences make sense I just use Google Translate to translate my writing in English to Portuguese. Because of this, is possible that have some kind of problems in my writing stuff.

I appreciate it if someone could read my stuff and tell me if it is possible to understand. Or that the things that I am thinking of sharing are relevant in some way. 

If no one finds me I think it space will just become a place of memories of things that I have learned. I will keep trying to write more often in English and need to start to try the reading in English activity too. 

Maybe in the future, I will have more elaborate articles here and some good people who have found my writing and have thought that my writing was helpful in some way. 

I am sorry about this kind of writing stuff, but today I just want to share that I am trying. I want to keep having this space, but I don't know how to share what I am doing. 

And I want to get register here that in the future I want to teach in some way about languages. I want to help people with translation and make things more approachable and easier. I want that information could be get by everyone. So, in the future, I want to study some languages, literature, and maybe education ( I am not sure about this part).

In the future, I want to return to this page and be proud that my English has gotten better, and that I have felt comfortable writing and speaking in English. That it has become natural and easy. That is my wish and the other part of my wish is that I have been using this space at least once a week for sharing this progress for many years from now.

XOXO

Duda

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