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Let me reveal the truth! Learning languages is a hell of a hard work! It's no "play and learn" crush course passed in two weeks as some advertising material promises. The process takes years and years until we can comfortably use our skills abroad. The best testing environment is a workplace packed with native speakers - suddenly freediving with tiger sharks may seem a bit less stressful ! :). The good news is we can always practise and improve by reading, listening, watching and communicating.

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With 2009 my fifth year in London has started.

For the second time in all these years I spent New Year in London. The first time I was very much driven by the thought that I cannot have lived in London and never actually been there for New Year - people make a point of flying here, and I live here! Of course going to town was on the list of things to do that evening - an experience that I had no desire to repeat this year. "Town" was very full with very many people, most of who got there much before I

I arrived in the UK on the 2^nd day of the year in 1999.  What a memorable date.  My life will change forever but I didn't know it at that stage.  After all, I was just a student coming for only 3 months.  When people ask me how long I have been living in the UK, I can't escape any longer the admiration in their faces and sometimes the jaw dropping.  Yes, 10 years is a long time and I guess an achievement.   Sometimes, I even don't know how I can possibly have stayed for so long and how fast time has