"She looks like anything but that" means what? Capture from a novel..." It doesn't sound like her family likes her much. It sounds like they have reason not to. She lied to them too, and ripped them all off. She doesn't seem like it, but she's a sick woman. She looks like anything but that"

Does "How do you do" become old fashioned? I hardly heard people say it for a long time.

How to use worry and worried?

My first time on Italki I seriously have learned English on by own through books and movies since I started working. At first, I was forced to study it as some times, I have to contact with boss and other colleagues in other countries. The requirement to communicate in Englisg is not very often, probably once in a week. The duration ranged from a few minutes talk to half an hour depending on the matter. At times, I struggled to get messages across. Though I have studied English for more than 15 years, I cannot communicate well. I can read as I studied grammar and I know quite a number of vocabularies through reading. I can do a bit of writing just enough to convey my idea. When I self studied for a while, I began to like it. When reading news or novels and encountering unknown vocabularies, I guessed theirs meaning from context clues or root / prefix / subfix. It is fun like I am doing jigsaw and enjoying guessing what a author wanted to say. When it comes to listening, I feel that the sound is beautiful like music. Oh, where was I!. When I first had a session with teacher, I could not even properly reply the simple greeting. Like "how are you", "I am fine, thank you and you?" Something is like that as in my culture, we do not greet that way. Thanks to my kind teacher who is kind and understandable, she kept conversation going. What I learned from the session is that without the chance to speak with native speaker, I cannot use Englisg efficiently and naturally. It is more like textbook when I speak and there are a lot of pauses. Thank Italki, Allearsenglisg podcast and teachers for guiding me the way how to improve my English. Hopefully, one day, I can comfortably communicate in English and enjoy watching English movies without reading subtitles.