First notebook entry: Introducing myself

My name is Aki and I'm from Taiwan. I've learned English since I was 13-years-old, but I didn't have many chances to speak English with people. Plus, English was a strange and difficult language for me when I was in high school so I didn't like it or study hard.
After few years, I got an opportunity to go to the USA to study. It was exciting but I was very worried because of my poor English, and I did face many troubles when I arrived in the USA because I couldn't understand people and make myself to be understood. Although I had many chances when I could speak English to native speakers, I was too shy to talk with people. Therefore, I almost only spoke English in the classroom but I was very silent in the dormand now I regret it so much.
However my English was still improved in those days when I stayed in the USA (because I still had to talk to people in many situations), and I love English more and more. Now, I've been back in Taiwan for three yearsand I found a terrible situation; that my English has become worse and worse because that I don't speak English often. Therefore, I want to look for someone who can have conversations with me and make me not forget English.

The words and and but are conjunctions. They are used to join two clauses within a sentence, so we rarely use them to begin a sentence.

Occasionally you used the wrong verb or tense (singular/plural or past/present), but your overall command of English is very good. Welcome to italki.