Awareness

Today I tried to explain in English to a Polish client the fundamentals of the tax class system in Germany and the obligations and potential dangers coming that come with an application for changing his tax class to III.

I struggled to find a word for „Zusammenveranlagung“. Joint statement maybe? I had to take and use it. My time was running short after a 982-word email (the second after about three phone conversations and one face-to-face conversation)
I never noticed how opaque this tax class system is for an outsider who does not accommodate with it during his work life, who depends on suggestions and information from co-workers.

To explain the potential pitfalls, which only emerge on my awareness, while explaining in English was kind of strange.
I live with these issues and explain these issues normally and unconsciously, as I behave like an amoeboid, not consciously thinking with my cerebral cortex. My conscious mind is on standby operating in anticipation like typing with 10 fingers. Thinking of the next move of the next finger would bring poor results.

Awarness (spelling)

Today I tried to explain in English to a Polish client the fundamentals of the tax class system in Germany, and the obligations and potential dangers coming with an application for changing his tax class to III. (Divide your clauses up into chunks with punctuation and coordinators/subordinators.)

I struggled to find a word for „Zusammenveranlagung“. Joint statement maybe? I had to take (take it? take it where?) and use it. My time was running short after a 982 word email (the second after about three phone and one face-to-face conversations).
I never noticed how opaque this tax class system is for an outsider who does not accommodate (simplify: try "use") with it during his work life, and (again, divide your clauses) who depends on suggestions and information from co-workers.

To explain the potential pitfalls which only emerge on my awareness (phrasal verb: you "become aware" - which changes the subject nominal from "pitfalls" to "I") I only became aware of while explaining in English, was kind of strange. 
I (put those adverbs as close the verb as possible) normally live with these issues and unconsciously explain these issues normally unconsciously, behave like an amoeba amoebae (Love this description!), not consciously thinking with my cerebral cortex. My conscious mind is at stand-by, operating in anticipation like typing with 10 fingers. Thinking of the next move of the next finger would bring poor results.

Hi Anna.

You've got a really great level of English! It looks like you could use some help splitting up those long sentences into more digestible segments (It's hard to scale down from the complexity of German). I recommend this book for a good overview of clauses and how to separate them: https://goo.gl/L9KoXY  Hope that helps!

:) Misty