Hello comrades and welcome to the first improvement megathread of August! 
Some discussion ideas:
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How was your week?
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Do you have some plans for next week?
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How was your July?
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Do you have some plans for August?
Image description: “To the Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War”, commonly called Alyosha, is a monument in Murmansk, Russia to Soviet soldiers, sailors, and airmen of World War II (called the Great Patriotic War in Russia).
Russian. I was using Duolingo before but it got way too gamified.