For me it does not work at all to speak and listen to native speakers. To memorize words, I absolutely have to write and SEE them. I can`t learn to listening only. So I have to spend efford in it, even after I am able to have small conversations. And I think its very important to learn words in phrases and in context of small sentences. Like Eliot said before you have to understand the grammar to speak in a way, that native speakers like to talk to you (because otherwise it would be so difficult and exhausting for them, so they are likely to change into an alterniv language like English to speak to you). But learning Grammar with rules and tables does not work for your speaking skills, because you won`t have time to think about it when you speak, so you have to understand the strukture by learning to build sentences .... many many different sentences and variations, so you will get a feeling for the strukture in the end. For that a good guidance is quite important. That can be a very patient native speaker, who always corrects you (like children are corrected very often and very patient by nearly all people around them), or by a teacher. By the way Eliot - the course you suggest is very good in it, unfortunately it has very old fashioned words and phrases, so you should go over it with a native first before you learn it, otherwise you will sound a bit strange. Also the way to pronounce things have a bit changed since the war.

I´m in doubt about it. When you´ ve achieved a certain level of knowledge of a language, it even gets harder to advance. After having internalized the basic grammar and vocabulary efficency of language learning seems to decrease, because you have to spend the same time as before to get less progress. It´s the fine tuning which may cost years. You have to learn more detailed stuff which doesn´t concern the language in its entity anymore, but is appendant to a small group of words and situations only. That´s why you often forget these hard acquired facts as well: There aren´t so many opportunities to repeat them in conversations. Even if you live in an ambience of native speakers, it´s like that: The more you know, the harder it gets to convince them that it is still necessary to correct you -- even if your speech is understandable. Well, that´s why I´m here actually. ;)) I hope that people will correct me, even if I only use an unusual expression.

Can you help me to improve my english

You should start with the core. Instead of learning a bunch of phrases just to et yourself out the door (which will be rehearsed, not flexible, and boring. Also, you won't REALLY understand what your saying, and your brain may freeze with lack of things to say). Learning one or two simple ones is fine, but start with a strong, grammatical foundation -- how to form negatives and positives, how to conjugate, vocabulary that you actually USE, colors, dates, pronouns, adjectives, etc.

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