Moving to the UK

Hi everybody,

My girlfriend and I are going to (writing "gonna" can work, but it's just not proper ;) ) move to the UK in about three months. Actually, we are thinking about for how long we are going to live there since the main purpose of the visit would be to improve our English. I have no idea how long it would take to learn (and especially to become fluent in) English in an English-speaking country. We are also considering whether England or Ireland would be better for us. As we have never been to the UK, we would definitely like to visit it first. From what I have heard about the UK, it rains there most of the year, doesn't it?

You already write really well in English! The one thing you'd need to know is that there are so many dialects around England alone, so perhaps you could pick based on that. London should be metropolitan enough that there would be a lot of different English speakers from all over the world, so you could get used to all the different English accents. =P But Ireland is beautiful…