How do u say VALIENTE in your languages and Wich language it is please.
I'm boring just answer my random question , thanks 

Caregiver

How to improve public speaking skills ?? 

Body Positivity

Any tips to make our English advanced?

3am Thoughts

How can I speak english fluently and write good paragraphs in English?

Education

I want to learn French 
I do know the basics but I just want to upgrade my resume and I think it'll help me a lot in finding jobs as I am already fluent in German (we learnt in our school) and Spanish too (like i can have basic conversations)
As I want to move abroad these things help a lot
Do you guys know any way I can learn it
like I've tried duoolingo and those few apps they never work efficiently and only waste time
Any other way? 
If you know please do share

Job Security

Just moved to New York from India a month ago
Being judged for my English and accent a lot
Hate it

Frustration

I’m feeling a bit insecure about something.

Warning: this will most likely be very long as I’ve been holding this in for a while and couldn’t find anywhere to post it besides here. Apologies for grammar mistakes, it’s the middle of the night.

I’ve been in the US for 5 years (originally from Portugal, did 1-3 grades there) and I’ve been thinking about my accent in English. I’m going into 9th grade in 8-9 days.

Don’t get me wrong, I **like** my accent! It’s one of the reasons why I don’t want to speak English to a native level, it feels part of me. However, lately I’ve been feeling kind of nervous about it.

A lady at a store asked me for some help while my family was browsing some stuff, and when I answered I suddenly felt like my accent was thicker? Maybe it was because we only talk in Portuguese among ourselves and because of COVID the last part of 7th and all of 8th was online, so I didn’t speak English outloud much.

I’m not sure. A teacher in 7th grade (before COVID) once mistook me for being Polish because of my accent in English, when I told my older sister she said that my accent in English was perfect. I don’t know why she lied about it, I know for a fact It’s not perfect. I’m fluent in English, but I can’t speak it to a native level and I struggle with the rl’s a lot (I cannot pronounce world or girl).

Now comes my Portuguese accent. My family and I are from the north of Portugal so if you’re familiar with it you know what it sounds like. I mainly think in English, mostly only write in English as it made me forget most of my Portuguese grammar and I have difficulty re-learning it. Some of my aunts have said that I’m starting to have an American accent in Portuguese and I HATE IT. I have nothing against Americans of course (most of them are super nice people!), but I’m *Portuguese*. What kind of Portuguese has a foreign accent, especially an American one? I don’t want to be mistook as being foreign or something when I’m Portuguese myself (Again, nothing wrong with that, it’s just that I don’t want to be judged and seen as if I don’t care about Portugal).

I feel like I’m starting to adapt some American culture too (smiling way too much, super friendly) and I’m nervous it’s getting rid of my own culture in the process.

I have no friends that are *not* American which is why I’m not asking them since I know they wouldn’t really understand it. There are some Portuguese-crossed kids but they were born and raised in the US.


I feel really lost, and I’m nervous about going into high school. Many of my classmates have changed from nice to rude from elementary to middle, and now that we’re at high school I feel like they will be worse.

I know it most likely won’t happen, but I guess I’m just kind of worried somebody will pick on my accent or the fact I’m not American. 90% of them don’t even know where Portugal is which  makes it worse. I would say that I’ve fit in quite well, probably because nobody cares about Portugal. If I was from a popular European country like France I do know they WOULD care,  when I spoke that I visited family in France people were ‘impressed’? I don’t know, it was confusing. What’s so impressive about going to France?

For some reason it feels like it’s my first time in the US again. I regret doing and saying some things in 7th grade (who were quite.. stupid) and I just don’t want to give off a bad impression and I’m worried people will remember those things.

For clarification, I’m what people call the ‘quiet kid’ if it’s by stereotypes, some dude in my class seemed honestly shocked when he heard me speak, so I don’t get much attention which I suppose is a good thing. I also make sure to always be very friendly so I wouldn’t say I have any foes (though two girls dislike me for some reason? I don’t know). I feel like I’m much more extroverted online than in real life.

I’m really, really nervous especially since some kids in my grade are very.. patriotic? Nothing wrong with that of course but they’ve said some things I disagree with, especially since my mum is not an American citizen. I stand up for the pledge of allegiance out of respect for the United States but I do not sing it as it is not my country. I don’t want to stay in the United States forever, and I get homesick of Portugal a lot. Portugal isn’t perfect, but it’s still my land.

I’m starting to feel like I don’t belong anymore, I’m feeling really lost..

School

Is there some one who can teach me English fluently please  🥺!!!


Books

Hiiii i don’t know that language. Which language did u type?

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