The Day of Despair It's not an easy thing to learn a foreign language at the middle age. Recently I thought to myself that children start memorising words from the closest circle of things and relatives when beginning to speak. And then they gradually expand their vocabulary. As they grow up, they understand that some words has the abstract meaning. The more complex their conciousness becomes the more complex their language is. Another situation happens when you are learning a language as an adult. You mix the words from different sources, change topics, etc. For example, having need to speak on some professional themes, I'm forced to learn many abstract words and notions while my common conversational English leaves much to be desired. Perhaps I had better hire the professional teacher who could help me to build my systematic vocabulary. Today is my day of despair. It seems to me I will never speak English properly.