How I study English

Hello everyone! I am a student from Moscow. I am going to become an English teacher one day. After my entering university, I started to study hard. I try to use every possible way to improve my English. Especially I have problems especially with speaking as we dson't have enough practice during the lessons. I read books in English, I watch films, listen to BBC, watch news.. Sometimes I understand almost everything, but sometimes it's too difficult so that and I can understand only few words.. It is so disappointing! I dream of having a good British accent, I memorize dialogues from different films and try to retell them with the same intonation and pronunciation. Some time ago I noticed that I had problems with tenses and spelling, therefore I decided to write more. Well, that''s why I am writing it now. I am not a writer, that'ts why, to be honest, I don't know what I shall write here. I hope my text will be understandable for native speakers. ???? Usually English teachers in Russian frighten students that English people will not understand us, if we don't have a perfect accent and make mistakes. Is it true? Is it hard to understand people who hasve a foreign accent? Actually, I can understand foreigners who speak Russian not very well. Well, I will be glad if someone correct my text and say a few words about this. Thank you!

In answer to your question, unless someone has a particularly strong accent and poor English, most native English people will understand the person when they speak. Personally, in England, I tend to find those who speak relatively similar languages such as Italian, French & Spanish as their native language, tend to be fairly easy to understand. Native speakers of more distant languages (e.g. Polish, Mandarin/Cantonese etc) tend to more difficult to understand unless they have learnt English to a good level.

How I study English

Hello everyone! I am a student from Moscow. I am going to become an English teacher one day. After my entering university I started to study hard. I try to use every possible way to improve my English. Especially I have problems with speaking as we don't have enough practice during the lessons. I read books in English, I watch films, listen to BBC, watch news.. Sometimes I understand almost everything, but sometimes it's too difficult so that I can understand only few words.. It is so disappointing! I dream of having a good British accent, I memorize dialogues from different film and try to retell them with the same intonation and pronunciation. Some time ago I noticed that I had problems with tenses and spelling, therefore I decided to write more. Well, that''s why I am writing it now. I am not a writer, that't why, to be honest, I don't know what I shall write here. I hope my text will be understandable for native speakers. Usually English teachers in Russian frighten students that English people will not understand us, if we don't have a perfect accent and make mistakes. Is it true? Is it hard to understand people who has foreign accent? Actually, I can understand foreigners who speak Russian not very well. Well, I will be glad if someone correct my text and say a few words about this. Thank you!

Note: I'm from America, but I am familiar with British pronunciation. However, I felt that the initial correction was insufficient in truly assisting in the nuances of the language.

How I study English

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When one "retells" something, they are not necessarily repeating the words as implied by the word "repeat," but may take liberties. It is more of a restatement, and often is used in storytelling. If the context was retelling the story (not word for word) to an audience, then you would use "retell".] them with the same intonation and pronunciation. Some time ago, I noticed that I had problems with tenses and spelling,. [This is a runon sentence. The ideas are too separate to be joined by a simple comma.] tTherefore, I decided to write more. Well, that''s why I am writing it now. [Choose one or the other. You are repeating yourself.] I am not a writer, that't why [This phrase is extraneous and irrelevant because you are stated that you are not a writer.], to be honest, and [Here, you have the choice of splitting the sentence with a period or doing the combination I chose here with a comma and "and".] I don't know what I shall write here [You need to clarify what you mean by "here." If you meant in this note you just wrote, then this sentence is irrelevant because you just wrote about a topic. However, if you mean that you do not know about what other topics to write in future notes, then you will be best served by using "about." Furthermore, the use of "shall" is rather restricted, and I don't believe it was used appropriately here. However, I'm not sure if this is a difference between British English usage and American usage, but I would suggest "will" for this is more flexible instead of the connotations behind "shall". I ask for those across the pond to advise on this. My suggested phrase would be thus: "I don't know what I will write about."]. I hope my text will be understandable for to [You are considering a target, so you would use "to".] native speakers. ???? [I suggest that in order to improve your writing to refrain from improper additives--including emoticons--and reserve them for informal situations.] Usually [This is not useful because your following informationg establishes that it happens. Having "usually" is correct, but is not useful. You are drowning the gist of your meaning with this adverb because the reader would be reconciling the fact with the frequency when you are instead trying to convey a fact.] English teachers in Russian frighten students that English people will not understand us, if we don't have a perfect accent and make mistakes. Is it this true? Is it hard to understand people who has have a foreign accent? Actually [I'm not fond of the placement of "actually" here, but it works. It depends on how the words are stressed when spoken aloud.], I can understand foreigners who do not speak Russian not very well. Well [It would be better to say, "Anyway" here.], I will be glad [The word "grateful" is more suitable.] if someone correct [This can be corrected into several ways depending on what message you are trying to convey: 1) "...if someone corrects...", 2.) "...if someone will correct...", 3.) "...when someone corrects..."] my text and says [If you chose one of the above, then the following would be: 1.) "says", 2.) "say", 3.) "says".] a few words about this. Thank you!