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What To Do And Where To Go? After a graduation the university I’ve got interested in English language. Not for work, not for some purpose, just for fun. I would like to say “for training my brain”  At first time I’ve listened different tutorials and watched tutorial videos. Then, for saving my interest in learning language, I started to watch my favorite TV shows and movies in English with Russian subtitles. After a while I discovered for myself many cool American and British video bloggers on YouTube. I understood about 75% what they said and liked it so much! A real person just now recorded a video from the other part of the world and I am able to watch it and partially to understand their thoughts! That’s awesome! At the summer time I realized that well, good, I can understand English speech. But I can’t talk in it! I haven’t practice my language with anyone. So, I went to speaking club in my city with native-speaker teacher. I liked listening foreign person in real. There weren’t any border between us. But when it took place for me to talk… well, there were a mess coming from my mouth (( In my head words sounded right, but in my speech it was all wrong. In my group there were about 12 people and all tasks were like “ask your partner…”, “answer your partner’s question…”, “(when we studied Future tense) tell what you will do tomorrow…” and etc. It was boring for me ( And more over it was not interesting for me to talk with Russians in English. After that experience I decided to improve my grammar. I went to other school where we had to learn all and only English grammar for 3 months. But it was not useful for me too. I felt that my classmates were on lower level than me (I realized that I was not good, but I compare with them I was better in language). We studied “there is/there are” construction for 4 lessons! I wanted to make clear for myself tenses, conditions, infinitives and other topics, but we studied basics. So, I know how to say “there is an apple on the table” ))) Now, I don’t know what to do and where to go. I feel that I’ve stuck on some level and I can not get higher  I appreciate your advice and help in advance

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What to Do and Where to Go?

After graduating from the university, I got interested in the English language. Not for work or any other purpose, just for fun. I could also say “for training my brain.”  
Since the beginning, I’ve been listening to different podcasts and watching tutorial videos. Then, in order to keep myself motivated in learning the language, I started to watch my favorite TV shows and movies in English with Russian subtitles. After a while, I discovered many cool American and British video bloggers on YouTube. I understood about 75% of what they said and I liked it so much! A real person from the other side of the world just recorded a video and I was able to watch it and partially understand their thoughts! That was awesome! By last summer, I realized that well, good, I could understand English speech, but I couldn’t speak it myself! I hadn’t practiced my new language with anyone. So, I went to a speaking club in my city with a native-speaker teacher. I liked listening to a foreign person face to face. There weren’t any limits between us, but when it was my turn to speak… well, there was a mess coming from my mouth (( the words sounded right in my head, but in my speech it was all wrong. There were about 12 people in my group, and all tasks were like “ask your partner…”, “answer your partner’s question…”, “(when we studied future tense) tell what you will do tomorrow…” etc. It was boring for me ( It was absolutely not interesting for me to talk in English with Russians).
After that experience, I decided to improve my grammar. I went to other school where we had to learn only English grammar for three months. However, it was not useful for me, either. I felt that my classmates were on a lower level than mine (I realized that I was not good, but compared to them, I was better in the language). We studied the structure “there is/there are” for 4 lessons! I wanted to get my tenses, conditionals, infinitives and other topics right, but we kept studying the basics. So,  now I know how to say “there is an apple on the table” )))
Now, I don’t know what to do or where to go. I feel that I just got stuck in some level and I can not go any further. Thank you for your advice and help in advance. :)

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Thank you :)
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You have a good sense of humor ,and this is an interesting article.
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What To Do And Where To Go?

After a graduation the university I’ve got interested in English language. Not for work, not for some purpose, just for fun. I would like to say “for training my brain” 

At first time I’ve listened different tutorials and watched tutorial videos. Then, for saving my interest in learning language, I started to watch my favorite TV shows and movies in English with Russian subtitles. After a while I discovered for myself many cool American and British video bloggers on YouTube. I understood about 75% what they said and liked it so much! A real person just now recorded a video from the other part of the world and I am able to watch it and partially to understand their thoughts! That’s awesome!

At the summer time I realized that well, good, I can understand English speech. But I can’t talk in it! I haven’t practice my language with anyone. So, I went to speaking club in my city with native-speaker teacher. I liked listening foreign person in real. There weren’t any border between us. But when it took place for me to talk… well, there were a mess coming from my mouth (( In my head words sounded right, but in my speech it was all wrong. In my group there were about 12 people and all tasks were like “ask your partner…”, “answer your partner’s question…”, “(when we studied Future tense) tell what you will do tomorrow…” and etc. It was boring for me ( And more over it was not interesting for me to talk with Russians in English.
After that experience I decided to improve my grammar. I went to other school where we had to learn all and only English grammar for 3 months. But it was not useful for me too. I felt that my classmates were on lower level than me (I realized that I was not good, but I compare with them I was better in language). We studied “there is/there are” construction for 4 lessons! I wanted to make clear for myself tenses, conditions, infinitives and other topics, but we studied basics. So, I know how to say “there is an apple on the table” )))

Now, I don’t know what to do and where to go. I feel that I’ve stuck on some level and I can not get higher  I appreciate your advice and help in advance

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