Всем привет! Меня зовут Ольга и я с радостью вступлю в ваш клуб. Я уже почти 2 года не практиковала английский, с тех пор как приехала в Германию и очень многое забыла, поетому поправляйте мéня пожайлуста, если я буду делать ошибки.
Скоро устраиваться на работу и во всех серьезных фирмах, которые мне интересны требуют, перфектный английский. Заниматься времени нет, я думаю если буду общаться вспомню
Темы -любые, давайте занкомиться и общаться, я буду рада

Welcome!
If you want to practice your English, you can start write in English

Let me coorect you a bit, nothing personal:
...start TO write...

It's lack of practice
In turn, let me correct you a bit:
cORRect
Now we can start a long thread correcting each other. Too bad, it's not always the most amusing talk.

Good you told us your name. I have a friend who looks very much like you and she has a little girl too. I haven't seen her for a while and I almost thought you were her

ok, girls! Thank you for the feedback!
Let me introduce myself. My name is Olga, I'm 25. At the moment I'm studying at the European School of Business, MBA Programm Inetrnational Marketing.
That girl at the foto is not my daughter , she is my cousin, but I haven't seen her for 2 years.
Now, tell smth. about yourself and if you have any questitons, don't hesitate to ask

I think, I did a mistake yesterday.
The girl on the photo...?,

It is also not very polite to wrtite "Now, tell me..." (btw, there is no comma there). It would be nicer to write somthing like "I will be really happy to read about you" or, more official, "I will very much appreciate if you tell me about you".
Well, following tradition (htis type of conversations is often here) I introduce myself again. I'm postdoc from Berlin working to use math in geology. I work in English for last 12 years, I communicate in English with my German girlfriend. Yet, my English is not good. I wiould claim that not having good basics of English during my school years is the main reason of my poor English. I, however, think in English, I cannot present my work in any other languages, I can speak only English with non-native Russian speakers ... And I have a birthday today...

Nice to meet you Sergei
Happy birthday and my best wishes!
Thank you for correcting me. I agree with you, it wasn't the polite way for asking
You have a great experience in English
It is important to practise language, no matter if it's English or any other language. Unfortunately, not everybody has the possibility to do it.
The English lessons at my school were terrible. I had to learn it with private teacher in order to enter university.

I was a school student when there was no motivation to study English. The only reason was to read comunist newspaper "Morning Star"... This what I can tell now. That time, however, I was not that experienced in politically correct phrases, I was simply lazy. I changed schools three times and each time I was starting from ABC...
Thus, the real story of my English started when I was working for cash in green house in the state of New York in 1990...

Yes, you are right. Nothing is inpossible. If you want to achieve smth, you should work hard. Of course, the English lessons were bad, but I'm sure if I really were interested in learning English, I would have learnt it myself.
Your story is rather interesting. How have you come to the U.S.?

I came there by private invitation and spent three months in old-Russian community. That time the price of dollar was really high, and I covered all my expences working for $5/h...
Moreover, I met some younger people there who helped me to understand that I can work abroad using my university educcation. A year later I got invitation to persue my PhD in Sweden.

About English. Being abroad and working in English for 12 years, I always hve problems in English always needed to improve that. However, it was always lack of time...
The best progress I got in Canada, when my professor sent me to a course of writing English. Simple lectures and exersises (advantage that that course was for native speakers, difficult to find such a course here) just took psychological barier out. I have much less stress whn I write now...

You think in English?!?! I'm sorry for my curiosity but how is it possible if you have certain problems with the language (from your own words)? Somehow it's hard for me to understand If you start to think in a foreign language, it's because you know it good enough and the words and the expression in this language come up first.
About introduction┘ Let's make it language-related I've studied in the US for a while, and now I have to use English for my work now and then

Hello everybody. I'm with you again.
Hello Olga. Welcome to our nice circuit here! I certainly doubt that me of all people can help you to advance your English, but it doesn't matter - the point is we can practice it.
To my person: in few days, I complete my studies and I aim to apply everywhere, inter alia in the U.K. I don't know if I have a chance, because my spoken enlglish is equal zero but who knows...
What about you? Have you practical experience with speaking English? What do you think, how long you need for getting into that?

When I came to the US for the first time my biggest problem was listening. I couldn't understand a word for 2 weeks, although I could read, write and speak easily.
A year ago I visited the UK for the first time. I felt like I'd never been in an English-speaking country before It took me about 2 days to start to understand the British accent after my American experience

Oh yes, I know that. We all know this situation. Two weeks I could survive without listening, my biggest problem will be speaking. By the way, Is British really SO different from US-English?! I never would think so... You are scaring me

Wow, what can I say...your life-experience is incredible . I have looked at your home-page and CV, respect

Hello, nice to meet you
It doesn' t matter if we make some mistakes, the main point- we practice
I haven't been in an English-speaking country yet. I have practiced English at the University in Tashkent, where I come from. Now the only possiblity I have is speaking with my british and kanadian professors during English lessons twice a year

I wish you a good luck and hope you achieve your goals and get one job in the United Kingdom
British is really very different from american English. My british professor says that I pronounce very american. At the beginnig it was difficult to understand him, cause it sounds completelly different