My English
I have enrolled an english institute since April. What I have learned is speaking skill and conversation. I think my skill is poor because I have made really silly mistakes. For example, when I said about my sister, I begin like this. ‘ My sister is student. blah blah…’ and I say ‘… He have hoped to be a nurse, so he entered Red Cross Junior College.’ Sometimes I asked another student in the institution like this – ‘Are you live with your parents?’ I have not made mistakes like these when I wrote down in English. I also have another problems. When I talked with my own idea, I could not make myself clear. I could not organize and structurize my thought. It drove me much embarrassed and frustrated, so I got nervous. Then I totally collapsed at all, murmured really silly things. It seemed like a vicious circle. I was afraid when I spoke in front of people especially in English. The mystery is that when I said about complaint like ‘I am not okay at English. My English is so poor. Damn evil English!!!,’ I made sentences at once and spoke out very clearly. What was this? Anyway, I should spend more time and effort to get familiar with English speaking. I spent just two months intensively for it. I guess at least one or two years are needed to be fluent in English.
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well, i will expect you to speak in english fluently.
I think your post is great and also a writing skill is connected with your speaking skill. It’s not important to make miatakes when you talked to someone in English. Confidence and a mind of participation is more important.
It’very intheresting , because I don’t speak english too. I totally understand you . I worried about mt english ability every day. But you know there are many students in our class. I am afraid of this class . Anyway let’s go .You are not alone.
Yes, Eunsoo and Nami gave you some good advice. The person who makes many mistakes learns faster than the person who is quiet because she is afraid to make a mistake. This is my experience, in learning Korean, and in all my other studies. If you relax and let yourself make mistakes, then you have something to learn from. If you get tense and refuse to let others see you make mistakes, then you improve much more slowly.
By the way, it’s not a mystery that you can express your hate for English more easily than other “conversational” points. The secret is simple: you have a strong reason to express your dislike of English. When you have to use this or that grammar in conversation class, you don’t have a real motivation to communicate this or that feeling or idea of your own… you’re just using a piece of grammar, and it’s like practicing piano. But when you feel angry about studying English, when you feel frustrated and annoyed, then of course you have a very deep motivation and you can make clear, expressive, and powerful sentences much more easily. Finding a strong motivation is THE secret to learning anything, but especially languages. And as for expressing your own unique ideas, of course it’s hard in another language. Most people struggle with that in their mother tongue! Be patient with yourself, and practice… and get a lot of input, too… the more you hear interesting people express themselves in English, the more you’ll get a bunch of ideas of how to express yourself!
Okay, on to your writing: I’m going to pick on one thing: your use of verbs. For example, you wrote that you “talk with” an idea, but of course, you mean to “talk about” an idea “with” your classmates, right? Also the word “structurize” isn’t exactly right… that’s not the verb form of the noun “structure”. (Check a dictionary!)
Otherwise, I think the paragraph is well written and I think you shouldn’t be so hard on yourself about your English ability. But please do rewrite this paragraph and fix the verb problems. You can add a little more information about your class, too, if you like!