Multilingual Speaker

Hi, I'm a Zhuang, an ordinary Chinese boy/person who've 's learned English for many years, though lacking in1* practice of writting and speaking. I'm new here to learn how to write English like a native. Or looking for a better way to practice Thai, and learning Japanse.

大家好, 我是个壮族人，一个学了多年英语却仍缺乏读写实践的普通中国人。

Mandarin Chinese is my second language, because almost all the Chinese have to learn it, so I've set my Chinese level to native in the profile. However, I was born in Nanning, a city of Guangxi, where there is a multi-language environment, there are three major traditional languages in Nanning: Zhuang (my mother tongue), Cantonese (technically, a variety but very similar), and Pinghua. That's why I am good at Cantonese too, almost like a native.

汉语普通话（中文）是我的第二语言，几乎所有的中国人都必须学习普通话，所以我在个人资料里将“中文”设置为 native（母语）。我出生在广西南宁市。传统上这个多语言环境的城市有三种主流语言：壮语（我的母语）、粤语（技术上讲是“南宁白话”，粤语的一个方言）和平话。所以我也很熟悉粤语，几乎跟母语者差不多。

Zhuang and Thai are languages of Tai-Kadai languages, that means they have lots of similar words and grammattical structure, which make me learning Thai very fast.

壮语跟泰语都是台加岱语下的语言，有很多同源词和相同的语法结构，因此我学泰语非常快。

English is very important to me, although I can't speak it very well, but I can read it. I've learnt lots of knowledge with its help, especially in software development. I won't get a programmering2* job without its help, at least, not a good programmering job. Last year, I worked in  the Philippines for 4 monthes, that's which was a good opportunity to practice my English, however the work is3* not easy, I don't3* get too much time to practice.

英语对我非常重要。虽然我说不好但我能看懂。我很多知识都是靠它学来的，尤其是在软件开发上，要是我之前不会英语根本就做不了程序员，至少不能做好。去年我在菲律宾工作了 4 个月。本来有一个很好的实践机会，可惜的是工作太忙，没有太多时间实践。

1* the 'in' isn't essential but sounds better to me.

2* or 'job as a programmer' or maybe 'programmer's job'.

3* I presume these refer to the past too so should also be in past tense.