Learning English

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But what about you? What project are you doing right now? Maybe you have a big project at school or work, or maybe you have some New Year's resolutions to share?

It's your turn to write about your big project. First, choose one of the topics below:

1. A work project
2. A personal project
3. A New Year's resolution

Then, write about your project or resolution. Write about five sentences. Try to use the new language from this unit. As you write, answer these questions:

• What is your project or resolution?
• Why are you doing it?
• How much progress have you made already?
• What haven't you done yet?

Thank you for sharing your projects with us. We enjoyed reading them. This task is now closed.

Here is a selection of the ones we received.

Hoàng

I am retiring, I want to open my mind. I decide to learn English. I learn 2 hours a day, I have learnt for three year. Now I can listen to a short essay, someone askes  me "you could talk with me in english", but I do not use any english words, it is really difficult for me. I admire everyone who can speak english well. My project is to speak english fluently. Do you help me the way for me to learn english easy.

Anamika

My project for this year is to improve my English. I want to improve my English for my academic as well as career prospective. I want to secure excellent score in TOEFL and GRE for my Higher study. I have practice to write essay on different topic and practice many speaking topics for TOEFL. I hope that the BBC Learning English will help me to achieve to my goal.

Rennan, Brazil

My project for this year:

- Improve my English

I've done exercises in BBC Learning English and I've just finished the session 3

I've already saved the vocabulary in this course in my cellphone to get the words in memory

I've already practiced my conversation with my friend

I haven't practiced some exercises of writing yet

- Get a new job

I've already accessed the site of advertising at university

I've just search some jobs in local more close of my hometown

I haven't participated of any interview yet

- Save money

I've already invest 50 reais in my account

Denis, Ukraine

My project for this year is very important for me. I want to improve my English  because I want to write my science articles in English. I have been studying for four month and now I have reached the 14-th unit already. I badly write in English so I wan to study this skill.

Sergio, Spain

My Project for this year is very ambitious. I want to start studying a new education. I was wrong when I chose my profession, because it's very hard to find a job in this area since crysis began in Spain. Also I want to improve my English, and BBC Learning English helps me to do it. I have been studying for two months and now I have reached the 14th level already. At last, I'm going to get married in Russia next August, and we'll have a big honeymoon travelling around this great country.

I've made a good progress with my English since I started this course, but I need to improve my level yet. About wedding, I have already made most of all necessary documents, and I've bought the tickets to Moscow and St. Petersburg. What a beautiful cities, I love them...

My studies will begin in September after wedding. I think everything is going to be alright!

Mona's project

My project for 2015 is

1- improve my English language skills and speak like native speakers.

2- get IELTS or TOEFL.

3- sing in scholarship in LONDON or TURKEY for master.

4- along my way get success in my diploma... I am working now on my diploma beside improving my English language.

Mathieu's project, France

My project for 2015 is to go to the Island country, for two weeks.

I would like to go to this country because I like the nature, beautiful landscapes, wild birds and the volcano's activity on the island is very exciting for me.

I will go in May, for the moment I've already studied my ride and today I've just booked my airline ticket for Reykjavik.

But I haven't looked for the accommodation yet. I hope the weather won't be so cold at the season!!

Taras's resolutions

1) To find a job

2) To have a girl

3) To improve my English

4) To eat a healthy food

5) To go to gym

So far I haven't done any resolutions yet. Though only to improve my English skills. At least now I have already some success because I've worked on it and I hope that I'll be able to speak in English like a natural speaker.

Marco, Colombia

In this moment, my personal project is to get a job and continue with my studies.
I have been looking for a job because I need to pay my studies. I am Colombian, and I came to Argentina to study a PhD in Communication Studies without none kind of financial support or scholarship.
I have already sent a lot of resumes to different places for different types of Jobs, I just delivered three resumes. But none of them has answered to me yet.
In relation to get a job, I haven’t had success. But my studies go so good!

Denice, Brazil

My name is Denice. I'm from Brazil and I've been studying English for some years, specially online. I found an amazing friend who lives in London and now I'm going to visit her in May. I can't believe that. It's a dream to me. I will to improve my English and to visit many differents places. It will be fantastic. I like very much studying English by BBC and it has helped me a lot. Thanks!

Anna, Poland

My projects for next months and years
1. the biggest one - raise my child (a few months ago I became a happy mom) - work in progress;
2. improve my English to the level B2 at least - expiry date 31.12.2015 (work in progress - learning English for about 30 minutes daily);
3. set up my own small business - expiry date 30.03.2016 (only ideas, nothing done yet).

Rafael, Venezuela

My project for 2015 is
1- Start a Marketing Master in Spain and improve my English language skills to speak like a native speaker.
2- To be able to live with my beloved one in the US, having a successful career by her side.
3- I've already done a very good progress on my English language thanks to this awesome course from the BBC, and I have done half of the paperwork I need to study in Spain.
4- I haven't approved the IELTS and I'm not done yet with the paperwork to sign up in the Spanish university.

Aili, Finland

My background is: - I'm already a senior student in English - a

deathless student. I started my lessons in this - for me difficult but

interesting - language with my 12 years. Not in the school, there I

learned German and Swedish. I wanted to have a pen friend with German

far away, that was in Japan but I got two pen friends in English.

A woman of my neighborhood told me it is not difficult. She could help

me for beginning. So I bought a dictionary in Finnish-English-Finnish

and started to learn English with letters from Japan.

Later I had lessons in the different evening classes but never orderly.

So, I got last year change to stay in Canada one year with my cousine

who doesn't speak Finnish. I decided finally learn English better. I

found your programm in the internet and so I become your student. I'm

still very slowly in learning (just by lesson 14!!!!) but your programm

is fabulous! I love it. It helps me in many issues which were till today

for me big problems.

I struggle still with the English ABC. I know them BUT when someone

spells I'm not able to follow him and I don't know which letter I have

to write :-[ . So, I have to do this yet.

The second issue is to understand why you write in English a word and

pronounce it differen - like read-read-read. That is a miracle for me!

But I will be hardworking now and in the future. You help me so much in

it! Thank you!

Rumi, Turkey

My project is about mixed cultures. I want make documentary film about a German family that lived in Kars. They are last family (Albuks) that lived there. They are Saxons who forgot their language. I have been working on the project for six months and I have reached a lot of resources, books, news...I want to going to there but it's very hard to find a fund in Turkey. I need to people/foundation that care different cultures and documentary cinema. 

Sebastián, Buenos Aires, Argentina

I want to improve my english. i am working on a new entrepreneurship. 
I am doing it because I want to speak, write and listen english very well. The new entrepreneurship is for living and feel alive. 
The english progress is going very well. I have started to study like autodidact after 3 years with teachers. The new entrepreneurship is going very well. We have already done a lot of things.
I have not travel to practice my english yet. I hope to travel soon. The site of entrepreneurship has not finished yet. 

An, Vietnam

My project for the next year is to do preparation for getting a new job that is suitable to my major. I am going to leave my current job as a saleman for a shoes company at the end of this year to start learning English and Chinese in the first six months of the next years. After that I am going to participate in a import-export business course in Ho Chi Minh city to improve my professional skill. I think that when all of these stages of preparation are done, it will be easier for me to get good job suitable to my major learned at the university.

Vinicius, Brazil

My project is about to finish the audio records of my Rock Band. We've already started with the records and we have good chances to our carreer. The project will go our first and we haven't decided the name yet, but the band called Alkaisers.

Oscar Cortes from Colombia, now living in Dubai

Really I have two big projects in mind for this and next year. One of them is about my English level, I need to learn and improve much more faster. I've already finished Unit 14 in BBC Learning English web site in just 6 weeks. I hope to finish the full Lower intermediate level in the next 2 weeks, studying 3 or 4 hours per day. I've just started to listen English songs (I've been listening Hello from Adele around 5 times per day) and watch TV shows, however I just can understand around 20 % of the stuff that y listen. My objective is achieve a level where I can understand 100 % of the English conversations. I've already downloaded a lot of movies also, I think this is good practice to improve and training my listening skills.

The second one is about my job. I've just moved to Dubai, UAE and I've already started to work here. Here, everybody speak in English but sometimes I've felt too bad because my listening, vocabulary and pronunciation in not good yet. This is the reason for my fist proposal.

I've already learned and remembered a lot things through BBC. My level isn't the best right now yet but I'm sure that in just some months I will be really good and fluency.

Sveta, Kyiv, Ukrane

I have a big resolutions for a next year. First of all I want to get up my English degree to upper-intermediate. My written and spoken English isn't good enough yet. But thanks to you, BBC, I  changing it for better every day.
And second item is to learn a several programming languages. I already learnt HTML and CSS and recently I've started to study Java Script. It's very interesting and exciting finding out something new.

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