A difficult story

Hello everybody!

I am new here at italki and I'm kinda (this is correct but very informal, more formal whould be "I'm a little scared") scared of this experience because altought I have been learning english since I was a child, I haven't written to or talked with someone. So I would say I am very stiff. I'm going to make a little presentation about myself and my "english story". I hope you will help me fixing this text...

My name is Carlos and I am from Mexico. I have been studying english since I was five years old. I started at kindergarden (In Mexico that is about 3-4 years old) and had continued until I was 12 years old. Everything was fine at the moment that time, but then, at correct but you can also say "in highschool or in kindergarden) high school, the principal and all his henchmen decided to divided students in two groups: the ones who they thought had an intermediate level and the ones with upper-intermediate level. My english level was upper-intermediate but, I don't know why, they sent me to intermediate...

Classes were not that bad, but that wasn't my actual level. And I think that decreased my skills. Anyway, I continued with that until I was 16. Since then, I quit english learning english because I started with italian and some other languages. Now, I'm 24 years old and I have to became become a self-taught student. So, I can say that I have not had a real english class since 8 years ago! (correct but it would sound more natural to say "I have not had a real class for 8 years!")

That's my story. But you know, actually I have improved my english a lot despite of all those years. Being autodidact (this is not a commonly used word - I had to look it up to make sure it meant what I thought it meant : ), so it would be easier for someone to understand if you said "self-taught"  has not been a waste of time (just a little harder) and I am proud of it.

Well then, I really hope you give me a hand with this. I will be very grateful.

It does not seem like your English has suffered at all Carlos! This is very well written - especially if you haven't had any classes for 8 years!