how to get through a bottleneck on learning englsih? i'm just wondering how to get through the bottleneck on learning english. i have started to learn english since i went into elementary school. However, after so many years of learning, i find myself trapped in a bottleneck. i could use english to communicate with native speaker and briefly understand what they are talking about while sometimes i could not fully express what i want to say and sometimes it is just hard to say it in a proper way. i could use englsih to write a letter or email to my friends and colleagues while you can easily precevie that it's write by a foreigner instead of a native speaker. i could read a book that is written in english while if i read a chinese version it will save me half of the time. so you see where the question lies, how could i further improve my english. They always say that practice makes perfect. And i believed it is ture. but it is always frustrated to see that you havn't got any progress after so many practice. So i could only wish me a good luck and ask your advice, is there any good advice on getting through the bottleneck if you have also confronted with the same trouble in learning a second language