Skill assessment

Hello everyone. This is going to be my little skill assessment article. I mean I'm going to put up a text and see how many mistakes natives speaker will spot in it. I'm sure there will be a lot of mistakes in the sentences that I'm now typing. That's because I haven't really studied grammar; I just learned to trust my instincts when writing or speaking in English. Of course, these insticts are not something I just have naturally. I had to acquire them first somehow and then develop them as I went along.

Now I'm putting it all to the test, and it is up to natives speakers to tell me how I did. It's been quite a ride for me. I've actually started to understand English speech lately, so now I can watch my favorite movies in the original [language]. That was a real coup for me because I'd been struggling to make sense out of English speech for more than 3 months! Of course I still suffer from lack of vocabulary, but it's not a very big deal now, because you can deduce the meaning of an unknown word from the context most of the time. Once you did do that, that word would will most likely carve a nice niche for itself to snuggle up into. This way you don't need to worry about forgetting words again. I found that to be very helpful and most fulfilling.

My next goal is to find someone I can speak English with farely fairly regularly so that I could can hone my speaking skills. It will most likely be a professional or community teacher from around here, but if anyone would get be interested in language exchanging or just speaking with me, then they'll be very welcome. Anyway, that wasn't the point of my piece of writing. The point was to write something for the people to see and correct, which I believe I just did I believe. Looking forward to seeing how much I screwed up :) Thank you all in advance for reading through this text.

Very very good! Your English is really understandable, and you manage to write with only a few minor mistakes. Just remember to avoid runon sentences, and use commas where they're appropriate. :)