My Blog to Improve My English

I’m currently on a journey to improve my English. In order to do so, I decided to create a website. Each day, I will find a picture and write a short paragraph related to it. It could be a story, a poem, or anything else. I will then ask ChatGPT to correct it and highlight all my errors. After that, I will publish it here. Please note: the version you see here will be corrected by GPT, so it will not fully reflect my current English level. The reason I’m publishing this is to motivate myself to write as if I’m being read.

August 15 , 2025

The Little Anaconda Paradox

The anaconda lives in the long rivers of the Amazon. It is one of the apex predators; when it is fully grown, it is not threatened by any other species, so it can roam as it pleases.
Conversely, a young anaconda is prey to many other species, so a quiet one will survive, while an arrogant one will not live to reach its full potential.
The lesson? When you have a fragile idea or project, or are just starting to learn something, protect it—guard it as if your life depends on it—so it is not destroyed by negative remarks from others, whether intentional or accidental.
When I first started working out, I had never trained before. After four months I began to see progress. Then a friend, who also didn’t train, challenged me to a push-up contest. He won and mocked my training. If I hadn’t known that everyone has different strengths and weaknesses, I might have quit.
Instead, I kept going. Now I’m in the best shape of my life, and I can outperform not only him but even experienced athletes.

August 16, 2025

Simple but Not Easy

I would like to argue that English is one of the hardest languages to master—or, to be more precise, to sound native.

Compared to other languages, English has a simple and straightforward grammar, so with minimal effort you can start speaking it. Naturally, you might think that if this continues at the same rate, you will eventually achieve your goal in a reasonable amount of time. The trap is that progress is exponential.

Yes, there are not many rules in English grammar, but there are many unwritten rules in prosody. For example, there are many borrowed words, so the spelling rarely matches the pronunciation. Also, there are features like the dark and light “L,” the flap “T,” and the dropping of certain sounds.

So, you may master the vocabulary and the grammar, but to the ears of a native speaker, you will almost always sound foreign—unlike with some other languages.

August 19, 2025

Mettre les points sur les i

There is a famous French idiom that says “mettre les points sur les i.” If we translate it literally, it would be something like: “put the dots on the letters i.” I think this is a great idiom. Without the dots, you can’t tell if it is an “l” or an “i.” This wisdom can be relevant to many aspects of our lives: clarifying our intentions and reducing the risk of a misunderstanding. For example, with a freelancer: if you leave too many blank spaces in your discussion about a project, be sure it will probably not go well. We want to be nice, to be brief, not to bother people with our requests. But in the end, we do no favor either to ourselves or to others. We always need to put the dots on the i’s.

August 20, 2025

Calibration Effect

We often imagine the road to success to be linear—a path where you advance step by step. But often this is not the case. Success is not a single straight road; it’s a multitude of roads with many junctions. Why is it important to acknowledge this? Because in order to achieve our goals, we make many attempts. Most of them fail, but we need to understand that these are not true failures—or at least not in the usual sense. Each attempt is simply showing us the right direction. For example, a developer may build ten games without success, and then, on the eleventh attempt, finally create a lucrative app. He might think he wasted his time on the failed attempts, but in reality, all of those so-called failures were mandatory steps—a calibration, like zeroing a cannon.

August 21, 2025

Why

Why do we do the things we do? That seems like a simple question. But is that really the case? You wake up each day in the early morning, before you’ve had enough sleep. You spend the whole day at work, and even at night you can’t stop thinking about it—or working more on your side hustle. Why do we do that? To have more money. But why? To have a bigger car? Your small car does the same job. A bigger house? You would probably not use it. To fulfill your purpose in life? I doubt it’s about your boring white-collar job. So instead, you could work for 2 hours—just enough to sustain yourself—and spend the rest of the day relaxing and doing the things you really love. Some may argue that to do precisely these things you need money—maybe. The truth is, I don’t know. Each one of us has a unique response—or is still looking for it. Maybe some don’t even care about it. You will have to figure it out by yourself.

August 22, 2025

Cornucopia

What would you do if you had a tremendous amount of money—enough to cover all your needs for your entire life? A nearly infinite amount of money. Would you work? I doubt it. And if you insisted on going to work, you would be among the few people who had discovered their true vocation in life. This question is essential, because its answer reveals what you truly enjoy in life. For my part, I would quit my job. I would still train—more than before, now that I would have plenty of time and resources. I would travel a lot, since it has always been one of my favourite hobbies. I would organize big parties, but only occasionally, to keep them fun. I might also organize debates with festivities, like the Greeks used to do in ancient times, to keep my mind sharp. And you, what would you do?

August 22, 2025

District

This picture was taken in a medium-sized city, in a district that many would call average or slightly below average. A safe but relatively new one. Why did I take this picture? I have to admit that, for some reasons I can’t fully explain, I found this view to be one of the best you can admire in a city. What is so special about this picture? As I said, I can’t tell. Maybe it’s the unique urban style, the multitude of trees that remind us this neighborhood was once a thriving natural space, or the telltale old rusty building from an older neighborhood. As beautiful as it is, you can tell that this view won’t last long. All these construction sites show that it will soon disappear.

August 12, 2025

Simple

This is a paragraph describing the second picture.