How to overcome gap between Intermediate and Advanced levels?
I need a piece of advice concerning improving my English level, but firstly I will recount my "sad story" of its learning. Most my knowledge I gained through communication with native speakers in online games but on certain reason I cant keep on playing anymore. And I can assert freely that from book I got nothing! Despite how hard I tried to memorise it, very soon everything I had learned earlier was erased from memory. Now I got an excellent opportunity to get to China where I was supposed to find "real" English speaking friends and finally hit on unachievable Advanced level, but as far as I'm a complete loser, I failed on this stage too. All I have been meeting for 5months of stay in China are silly, pervert people with who I could have not even hope to keep the same knowledge, let alone its improvement. So in absolute despair I'm writing and asking for advice here, on italki. How to overcome that gap between Intermediate and Advanced levels. Thank you in advance!

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I would say that your English is coming along very well, although your grammar is probably lagging a bit (maybe a B1 or even a high A2 level), which is not so bad, considering you don't like textbooks. Based on your particular situation, I would recommend you try reading as much English as you can, using material which is interesting to you and that you know 80% of the words without using a dictionary. Of the remaining 20%, you should be able to figure out half of them from the context.

In addition, you might want to look for a language partner on italki, or if you're in a real hurry, a tutor or teacher. The truth is, it takes as much time to get from intermediate to advanced as it does to get from total beginner to intermediate, so you should have realistic expectations and keep a positive attitude.

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I hope there is a magic solution for your problem, but I think there isn't..
Maybe you can practice more with people, talk about different topics not only game..I think this may help alot;
Of course, try to learn more vocabularies with the correct pronunciation, and I believe staying in a foreign country where English is the Mutual language to communicate with people is a very good opportunity for you to use :)

I hope I could help you more in anyway :)

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