The British Accent

When I was in middle school my English teacher tried to tought me the English language, specially the American accent, however, his classes were boring and I didn't learn much. When I entered highschool my new english teacher showed me the British accent and I immediately fell in love with the English language. Before knowing about British accent I used to think that English was the most awful language on earth, then I discovered the british accent and I really got interested into it and I even started learning English in my freetime by myself. Some weeks ago I was talking to an American girl to practice my speaking. She asked me "are you learning the British accent or the American accent?" I didn't know what to answer. Right now my accent is more American than British. Due to that little talk that we had made me realized that I still love the British accent. "I always finish what I start" It's a promise that I did to myself and is a mantra that I say to myself when I want to give up. If I started learning the british accent, I'll keep learning English until my British accent and pronunciation becomes perfect.

• Fernanhaiku
• Aug. 4, 2023
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Week 1

¡Hello everyone! How have you been these days? I'm fine. Thank you for all of your advice that you gave me in my last post about how I should study your feedback and corrections. Now I have a clearer idea about how to do so. I'm going to write my common mistakes in a notebook, if it's possible with an explanation, and from time to time I'm going to review them. I'm just going to read them and not going to memorize them because it's a little bit boring. I'm also trying to make my language learning something fun instead a chore as I already have a lot of chores in my life. I would like to start writing daily again, however, I have a lot of responsabilities in my house, I also have a job and I need to study for my entrance exam. I think, I only would be able to write a weekly post. However, I have the habit of writing daily entries in English in my diary, and this way I can improve my English and my mental health. I'll try to be more active in langcorrect and correc a lot of posts. Thanks for reading and for your corrections in advance. Right now I'm after a podcast in English, my favorite genres are mistery, horror, romance and documentary, if you have any suggestion it would be nice.

• Fernanhaiku
• May 17, 2023
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Day 56: A Small Break

I'm going to take a little break from my English challenge as I need to rethink the way that I study all of your corrections. All of them are very helpful but studying them with anki flashcards has become something very difficult. So I need to take a break in order to find another way to study them in a better way. I'm so grateful for all of your corrections. So, how do you study your corrections? Thanks for reading and for all of your corrections!!

• Fernanhaiku
• March 6, 2023
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Day 55 of my English Challenge

I didn't do too much today. I think is good to have some rest from time to time. I just worked at my job, and I achieved to spend almost all the day without listening to music. I didn't exercise today, but tomorrow I'm doing it. Thanks for reading!!

• Fernanhaiku
• March 4, 2023
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Day 54 of My English Challenge

I think that I have an addiction to listenening to music. I listen to music even when I'm not ejoying it at all, itmakes me less productive and makes me more and more even more procrastinator. This habit of listening to music in every moment it needs to be fixed. So I'm going to stop listening to music for two weeks but I'll make an exeption if I'm practicing dancing. Thanks for reading!!

• Fernanhaiku
• March 3, 2023
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Day 53 of My English Challenge

I have been working out six days a week, however I think that I'm going to reduce it to only three days a week in order to have more time to practice dancing. Dancing is something that I would really like to try as it's a combination between sport and art. I would like to create my own choreograpy and my own dance steps someday but for that I need to become a good dancer first. I have been watching videos of people dancing hip-hop style and I think that I like it. I'm going to try break dance and hip-hop and I'm going to choose the best one for me. Thanks for reading!!!

• Fernanhaiku
• March 2, 2023
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Day 52: Too Much Habits

I think that I'm a little bit obssesed about making new habits. I just need to focus on two habits for now because if I try to create more habits than I can handle, I'll end up quitting all the habits. So, for now, I'm going to focus on my workout and meditation habits. Maybe after those habits have been established I could start my journaling habit. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to stop writing in my diary. Wish me luck! Thanks for reading!!

• Fernanhaiku
• March 1, 2023
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Day 51: Making New Habits

Today I've read that stick new habits to habits already established is the best way to start a new habit. If you wake up and inmediately brush your teeth, you can stick the habit of meditation to it by meditating five minutes after brushing your teeth for example. I'm going to start the habit of writing a diary entry in my diary every day, I think that journaling could be a great tool to deal with difficult emotions by leaving out of my mind tough thoughts. Thanks for reading!!

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 28, 2023
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Day 50: Music

I love listening to music, I even would like to write my own songs and share them with the world someday. However, for that I need to learn to play an instrument first. Some of my options are ukelele, piano, acoustic guitar and bass. It's not my plan to become famous and I just would like to create my own songs with profound messages and relaxing melodies. The simple idea of thinking about me writing songs in a notebook, working several days trying to polish them and having a small group of people who listen to my songs charms me. I think that my soul needs to create art to be happy and calm. Thanks for reading!!

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 27, 2023
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Day 49: Buddhism

I would like to learn more about buddhism. I think that I have always been connected on it since a long time ago. I started meditating before I knew about buddhism, and I started writing haiku and tanka before I knew that they were influenced by buddhism since a long time ago. I think that buddhism could be my true religion, it's just a random thought. Thanks for reading

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 26, 2023
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Day 48: Pinocchio

In my birthday, I watched Pinocchio of Guillermo del Toro. I don't want to spoil you the movie, but in few words the movie is about an old man who struggles with the dead of his son. The movie puts emphasis on accepting ourselves as we are and on accepting that dead is something natural that make us real. I cried in the last twenty minutes of the movie because the moral is that the dead is something natural and an essential part of live, but we must keep following our path when the life takes from us somebody we love. "This movie was made out of Mexican wood" is a slogan that I heard in the trailer of the movie. This movie doesn't talk about Mexico nor is situated in Mexico, but the whole movie was made from a Mexican perspective about dead and life as Guillermo del Toro is proud of being Mexican and he always wants to put a little bit of his culture in every project that he has. He also said that Animated movies is not just for kids, animation is art and animation is film. I hope it wins the best animated movie oscar.

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 25, 2023
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Day 47: Good Motives 2

I'm so thankful to all of you for all the advice that you've given me. I now know that having "looking good" as a motive for exercising isn't a bad thing. However, I have been thinking in another motives for exercising, I even made a list. So my first motive for exercising is to become a stronger person, the second one is to build up my discipline and the third one is to have a good body. I'm going to focus in building the habit in order to focus more in the process than in the result. Thanks for reading and for all of your adivice!

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 24, 2023
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Day 46: Good Motives

Recently I've been thinking about what is my motive to exercise? Well, I've already have a motive but I don't know if it's a good one. My motivation for exercising is to have a beautiful body and to gain weight. However, that doesn't mean that I want to impress everybody around me, I just want to look better for myself, I suppose. I've heard that a lot of people have "being healthy" as a motive to exercise and that makes me think that I should have the same motive, but I don't have high cholesterol or obesity so that doen't work for me, I think. Have you ever had "looking better" as a motive to workout? Thanks for reading and for all of your corrections!

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 23, 2023
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Day 45: Exercising

I've started logging my exercises. In the past one of the biggest mistakes that I commit about exercing was not tracking my progress. Now I write down in a notebook how many reps and sets I did in my routine and by this way I can see my progress. I can also add more reps and sets for the next week in a realistically way. There's a quote that I like a lot which says "you can't hope different results by doing the same", that's why I'm trying something different. Thanks for reading!!

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 22, 2023
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Day 44: Why I want to write?

I think that I would like to write poetry to help people. I think that a good story can change your life forever as happened to me. Just a movie was enough to change the way that I used to think. If you have wondered why a lot of people love K-pop songs, there's a lot of reasons but one of those it's because a lot of K-pop songs have helped a lot of people around the world who try to deal with depressive thoughts. K-pops songs try to tell you that you're not alone, you're important and you're special in the way you are. There's a song that I like to much which is called "She's in The Rain", it's a song about a boy who feels sad because his friend hurts herself, and he tries to make her feel that she's not alone. I would like to do the same with poetry.

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 21, 2023
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Day 43 of My English Challenge

I haven't felt good this week. Right now I'm stressed, melancholic and my heart is broke. I'm the kind of person who can't cry, I am only able to cry when I try hard and when I watch sad movies (hahaha). Anyways,I started exercising this week and I'll try to do it better tomorrow, tomorrow I'm going to train chest and arms. I also need to start studying maths, I need to study at least 2 hours per day. However, I'll try to study math 3 or 4 hours. I started writing this poem in my head. It's not finished yet, but I wanted to share it. Tell me if you have any suggestions. It doesn't matter if outside is cold If the rain soak us If the wind threw our umbrella up in the air Or if the Jacaranda trees don't bloom My love for you is fresh Like spring Thanks for reading!!!

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 20, 2023
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Day 43: A Lot of Things to Do

Have you ever had that feeling of wanting to do many things but not having the enough time to do them? that's my daily life. As I said before, I like almost everything but I have also responsibilities in my daily life like a normal person. I would like to live forever to learn everything that I can. My hobbies right now are the following: creative writing, Japanese learning, English learning, exercising, Gardening, reading, listening to music and reading manga, and soon dancing. I have many hobbies but that doesn't mean that I'm an expert in every one of them. Sometimes I think that I don't have the enough time to practice every one of them and sometimes I think that I have the enough time but my motivation and discipline is the problem. There's a song called "Mediocrity City", that song totally represents me (hahaha). Thanks for reading!!!

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 19, 2023
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Day 42: Calisthenics

I'm going to start exercising with calisthenics. I think that it's still too early to go to the gym for me. Also because if I get into university I'm not going to have enough time to go to the gym regularly. So I think that calisthenics is a good idea. I'm going to practice break dance too, in order to make excersicing enjoyable. Today I started exercising, I started doing push-ups and tricep dips. I want to start break dancing but I haven't had the opportunity this week. I hope that I can do it soon. Thanks for reading and for all of your corrections!!

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 18, 2023
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Day 41: Discipline

If you have been reading my posts, maybe you may asked why I'm so obsessed about being disciplined. That's because in the past I used to have a lot of projects and things that I wanted to do. But those things that I wanted to do, never came true because my lack of discipline. My biggest goals are to live in Canada, to travel to many countries, like Japan and Norway, and being the best version of myself. To accomplish those goals, I need to be disciplined because I don't want to fail in these goals as in my last goals that I didn' acomplished, as I really want to come true these goals. I need to get a degree, learn Norwgian, Japanese, English and exercising, to accomplish those goals, and for that I need a lot of discipline Thanks for reading and thanks for your corrections!!

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 17, 2023
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Day 40: Regrets

What is the most important thing that you have learnt in all your life? Something that I have learnt recently, it's that we must live without regrets as possible. Sometimes we can be afraid or worried about taking risks. But we must take risks in order to live a life without regrets. If you want to try something new, do it. If you want to tell somebody how you feel, go ahead. I've heard about people who wanted to express how they felt but never did and now they live with sadness and depression thinking about "what would have happened if I had expressed how I felt or if I had tried this?". Don't think too much. As long as the thing that you want to do doesn't affect or damage someone, go ahead. It's better to try and fail, than never to have tried. Thanks for reading.

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 16, 2023
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Day 39: Bullet Journaling

I've noticed that planning my days in my bujo (bullet journal) has became into a habit. I complete two task a day at least. I think that this is my fourth bujo. I failed with my past bujos because I used to set too much tasks for one day and also because I used to have many trackers. I think that the key to become bullet journaling into a habit, it's to start easy, just with a to-do list for example. Today was Valentine's day in my country. I didn't do something interesting today. So, I'm just going to share some of my poems. I wrote these two haiku when I was in love with a girl some years ago. I wrote them when I was just starting to write haiku, so they could be bad (haha). I wrote them in spanish and these ares the translations. The winter wind hears what I feel for you will it tell you? Shiny day of spring the sunlight reflects on your eyes I fell in love with you! There's a song called "Jueves" by La Oreja de Van Gogh. The song is about a girl who takes a subway line when she goes to her school, hoping to meet a boy that she likes. The boy also takes the same line instead of taking the direct line to his destination. One day they start to talk but when the metro enters a tunel, the metro explodes. The song was inspired in true events. The last lines of the song says: I find your face I get brave and kiss your lips You say to me that you love me And I give you the last heartbeat of my heart. I prefer listening to the cover version, but the lyrics is so good and sad. Thanks for reading!

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 15, 2023
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Day 38: Small business

My sister and I are thinking about starting a small business. We are just still purposing some ideas. I would like to start a small brand and build it up. Maybe we won't get too far, but I want to start a small brand just for fun and for the knowledge what we could get from it. Some of my options for studying in University were marketing and international bussines as I am really into them. We haven't started yet, as I say, we are just planning, so anything that we have proposed is oficial. One of those ideas for the business is selling desserts. I have a good excuse to start learning about marketing, don't you think? Thanks for reading!!

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 14, 2023
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Day 37: Exercising Again

Tomorrow (Monday in my country) I'm going to start exercising again. I couldn't exercise this week because I got a cold. But I now feel better. I'm saving money to buy weights. If I get into university, I'm not going to have neither the money nor the time to go to the gym regularly, so I will need a way to exercise in home. That's why I want to buy some weights. Wish me luck! What are some reasons to exercise for you? (I'm curious)

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 13, 2023
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Day 36: Reward yourself

I've read an article about the importance of rewarding ourselves when we accomplish a goal. We learn and improve like any other animal because, after all, we are animals, too. For example, when you try to train a dog to sit down, you need to reward it with food treats in order to make a positive reinforcement when it achieve to sit down. You can hang out with your friends after finishing a big project or you can listen to your favorite song after have completed your daily habit. We need to reward ourselves after every time we finish a goal. However, after doing it for a time, we won't need to reward ourselves every time and just do it occasionally. I don't know what can I use as a reward, I'm still looking for it. I have heard about people who eat a chocolate after completing their work out routine. Though, I don't like eating too much sweeties. I love listening to music so I think I can use it. I love watching TV series, anime and play some videogames, so they're other options. In my adolescence I had learned that it's ok do not be perfect and that I can improve, I can be better. Everyone can improve and be better. Today was my last day being eighteen, I'm glad that I have learnt some good things the last three years. Thanks for reading.

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 12, 2023
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Day 35: Serenade

Bringing serenade to someone is mostly done by men, but there's no a rule which says women can't do it too. Serenade is to perform a few songs in the night in front of the window of the loved one in order to express feelings like gratitude and love. However, there must be a courtship between the two beloved before. It doesn't have an origin in Mexico but is so popular that it's now a tradition. You only need a guitar, the ability to sing and a loved one. There is a scene in the movie The Book of Life where makes a reference to this tradition, the scene is "I Love You Too Much" if you want to watch it on youtube. I think that I would like to do this before dying. However, for that I need to learn how to play guitar and sing first (haha). Maybe in a far February fourteenth. Edit: I forgot to say that if someone brings serenade to his(her) beloved, he(she) can also sing along with mariachi.

• Fernanhaiku
• Feb. 11, 2023
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