Italki challenge completed

I’ve successfully finished the italki challenge of taking 10 sessions within one month of Jan. 2013.

I've successfully finished the Italki Challenge, where we were to take 10 sessions with the month of January.

Looking back, I think what I’ve acquired most from the experience is to be able to stay more composed and to think and speak more systemically and logically in facing with people speaking English as their first language.

Looking back, I think what I’ve acquired most from the experience is to be able to stay more composed and to think and speak more systemically and logically while interacting with people who speak English as their first language.

In terms of learning English, I feel that I’ve hit on some sort of learning plateau for a long while.

In terms of learning English, I feel that I’ve hit on some sort of learning plateau.

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In terms of learning English, I feel that I’ve been on some sort of learning plateau for a long while.

Easy daily conversation is probably not that much of a problem for me now, but what I’m really looking for is to become capable of fluently discussing and reasoning on some more abstractly formulated topics, and in order to do so, tutors on italki do help me a lot.

(That sentence above is *fantabulous.*)

Apart from broadening my database of active vocabularies and correcting my sentencing and phrasing to be more natural (which is fundamentally important of course), my tutors have also familiarised me with some contemporary issues happening in English speaking spheres and the existing corresponding logic and coping strategies in facing such issues.

NB. I don't know that I'd use to "coping strategies" to talk about how I respond to the issues in my culture, although certainly on some days it *seems* like coping is all we can do :-) Your way of putting this together is a great example of how a mind firmly placed/originating in one language/culture can wield the tool of a foreign language (expertly) to create previously unenjoyed phrases :-)

By doing so, they help me understand the general reasoning process in English speaking culture, and thereby enable me to set up a more likely efficient communication with people from those countries.

By doing so, they help me understand the general reasoning processes of people in English speaking culture, and thereby enable me to set up a style / system / manner of communication that is likely to be more efficient with people from those countries.

Awesome, Meng!

Awesome Meng!