Have you had this? This note doesn't carry any sense, so pass by. I'm learning English for a very long time. About month ago I had this feeling that all what i was doing wasn't just a waste of time because I thought that I began to understand speech. Colloquial speech. That was my main goal in learning - to understand verbal and written texts. And I do understand speech, but only when it is slow and steady. Recently when i watched one episode of the entertaining TV shows i actually understood that i can't to repeat not one sentence. And I have this problem not being able to express thoughts. I can search right word for a very long time in my head even if it's very simple and ordinary. I cannot remember all idioms, proverbs, modal verbs I had learned before. It seems that with every new word we learn one of the previous just disappear. So, maybe it's just one of the grade (level?) of studying. First, you think that you've achieved something, than realize that that was miserable or just unessential