What have I learned for 8 mounths(?) Hello, everyone! I think that I don't need to introduce myself, at least for now. I'm just a guy who decided to start learning English back in July, 2017. So long it's been an extremely fun journey and I'm glad that I've started it. Here I'll be writing something, mostly for myself just for practice and putting me out of my comfort zone. Without using Google Translation, dictionaries or grammar books. Man, I really want to check few things out already :D Well, here we go. To be honest I can not say that I was "learning" English for all that time. What did i do, then? Well, just 2 things: listening and reading. Mostly, the first one :D Lazy ass is here) I've read some stuff about grammar and google something the most curios for me but not so often, though. It turns out that in one day I just stopped progressing, or my pace became very slow. Or I'm just thinking up) Anyway, it's been too much "inputs" so I've never spoken with anybody in English cause I don't have anyone to practice with. Moreover I hardly even wrote something cause I didn't have any reasons to. But now the time has come to fix that up. So what have I learned, then? Well, as for my listening skills I've put so much "effort" to - I'm satisfied. At least for 2 - 3 hours a day I have a pleasure to listen/watch to something on Youtube. Let's plays, travel-blogs, anything. I've open the whole new world for myself and that world became the significant part of my life. As for reading, about 10 books had been read. There are still some problems with that, like too many unfamiliar words or phrasal verbs and so on but that's ok. By the way, Harry Potter is not the "easy book" as they say, at least for me =D However, now I have the opportunity to absorb new information through a different language, maybe with mistakes but that doesn't matter. The fact that I can read an article without having a panic attack is the thing that inspire me to keep it up and makes me happy, already. At last I've learned that exploring a different culture could be such a fascinating experience. Let the next 8 months be the same. Until next time =) P.S. months* Such a silly mistake