Fragmented Sentences

When I talked to native speakers in English, I could sense that they had a hard time to understand what I had just said. Their facial expressions showed that they were confused and it made me feel nervous and incapable( ____of what?) At the same time, I would try to recall what I just said, hoping to find out what was the issue. There were several things could go wrong here, misusing a word, mixed and using wrong tenses, and unconventional sentence structures. Even though Sometimes I am able to say a grammatically correct sentence with appropriate wordchoices and tenses, but my Chinese accent would screw whole things up. It was an extremely frustrating and a discouraging feeling.

Samples of listings: 

___, ___, ___, and ____.

Amanda, Ben, Claire, and Darien are attending school.

When talking about people with significant other: Amanda & Ben, Claire & Darien, and Erica & Fern.

Today I got to know a new culprit that could easily confuse people. I was trying to teach some Chinese pronunciation tips to one of my language partners that I met on italki.

one of my language partner = so u only have one?

one of my language partners = you speak to one and you have many language partners.

I knew I was doing a poor job. Suddenly she stopped me and said "I am confused..." Embarrassed as always, I didn't know what to say. Then she continued and said " You started one sentence and before you finished that one, you started a new one. I really don't know which one you were saying. There are several fragments floating around."

I have the tendency to cut my own sentences because I am crafting two sentences and correcting myself and it would cause some akward silence within the conversation. For the reason being that I would realize that I was making some mistakes in sentence structures or grammar.

As a result, I would start a new sentence, leaving the old one unfinished. I didn't expect this would confuse people since I thought when I started a new sentence. I assumed the listener(s)' attention would shift to the new sentence and forget about the old unfinished sentence.

Unfortnately, unfinished sentences confuses people just as other factors did.

--because it's still occurrs, we use confuses.

Now, I have one more issue to address before I can reach full proficiency in English. However, it is also an awesome thing that now I understood the issue so I can start to tackling it. Starting today, I will try my best to avoid speaking unfinished sentences in any case. Before I open my mouth, I should think through a sentence. Hopefully I will solve this problem within 3 months, as I have so many issues to address.