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Hi everyone !!!! advise me something Not too much days ago I understand I want very much to learn english....but always is this "but" which don't let me starts....I'm telling about my job, my problems that everyone has....advise me something that I didn't give up !!!

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Hi everyone !!!! advise me something

Not too much days ago I understand I want very much to learn english....but always is this "but" which don't let me starts....I'm telling about my job, my problems that everyone has....advise me something that I didn't give up !!!

 

Hi, everyone!!!! Give me some advice. (Advise is used more with a preposition (though not always), and is usually about a specific thing or action eg. he advised me against buying that house; she advised me not to pick my nose after the fracture)

 

Not too many days ago (you can count days - so you use many; many problems, many girlfriends -as opposed to much pain, much pleasure) I realised (use the past tense; you can't say "I understood" unless now something has happened to correct that understanding. Like I understood that she was a friend, but now I see that she was just after my money), which is like I started to understand, that I wanted (past tense - it's a story that took place not too many days ago)very much to learn English......but there is always this "but". Usually, when you talk about something that "is" you use "there is".... there is a fire, there is a car on the road etc.... so there is always this "but".

which doesn't let me start.

the negative of does is "doesn't", unless you're Michael Jackson or Samuel Jackson, in which case it would be "don't", it's true.

let me..... then add the verb in the infinitive, taking off the "to".... let me (to - removed) start

I'm talking about my job, my problems (which are just like everyone else's): you can tell me about your job, but you can't tell about your job. And to tell me about your job is specific .... here you are just expanding on what you had said, so it is best to say "I'm talking about...."

You also can't say literally my problems that everyone has, because they don't literally have your problems; so I changed it as above.

Advise me not to give up. Or.... give me some encouragement so that I don't give up.

 

Well, since people usually have a job, and are also subject to day-to-day problems, I've never really understood how those things enter into the decision making. If you want to spend all your available time working at your job and worrying about your problems then that is your decision, isn't it?

Then, if you decide that you want to spend some of your time learning a language, you have a huge spectrum of what you can decide to achieve. You can learn just a few words, some phrases for holidays, enough to talk with your foreign neighbours, enough to live in another country, enough to work in another country, enough to read the original works of some authors, enough to enjoy a film without subtitles etc. You will never achieve complete mastery of your second language. Just as you will never achieve complete mastery of your first language. It's all a spectrum.

Learning a language well enough to have a meaningful conversation or read a book or watch a film takes a huge amount of hours of work, and, it is true, most beginners very rarely become interested enough to put this amount of time in. Probably because they slowly realise just how much of their life the learning of the language will take up. So, it all comes down to a choice thing, like how many hours you want to devote to scuba diving, snowboarding, watching television, talking about anything and everything with your neighbours. Only the person making that choice can really know what to do.

My God, I've gone on a ramble.

Anyway, Leo, if you don't understand my post after the bit with the corrections, that's fine. I didn't take enough time to put it into really comprehensible terms.

Whatever you decide, do it because it's fun (unless you need it for work, of course!).

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