Accents between the two I ‘v been learning English for almost one year and a half in a systematic way. It has become my routine already. I learn it all by myself and Improvement happens every day. Recently, I am struggling with the different accents between American English and British English. At the very beginning, I picked British English to practice my listening because of its classic, a little bit raucous and a kind of elegant feeling to me. I listened to the BBC Radio everyday and watched numbers of British TV shows, I got used to it gradually, I watched several Scottish TV series occasionally, the Scottish accent is the most amazing accent to me in my guess, maybe I like all kinds of unique things, however, that accent is too unique for me and I had to leave it a small and special room in my heart as it is not a good match for my English learning. After, in order to dive deeper, I attended a couple of local English clubs, English corners and wechat groups, most folks there were speaking with American accent, I was influenced so much so I started to read and communicate in American accent, and the BBC radios were replaced by the American podcast as well, I tried to change my British accent as possible as I can by engaging in American pronunciation skills training. In contrast to the British accent, when I was listening, even though American sounds softer and clearer, it is harder for me to connect very words together very easily to grab the whole meaning of the paragraph, and also, What frustrated me is while I turned back to listen to the British Podcast and recordings, my ears turned out not so sensitive to them, I couldn’t get them fluently as before. A funny question pops up from my head suddenly, what happened? Why are the two kind of English accents so different if the American predecessors are from Britain?

What does oyster mean as an adjective? thx I learned that when I was listening to a podcast: It says: "everyone have different needs,I think you need to pick and see where your doubts are? and trying find the answer, because the world is oyster, you have YouTube teachers,pages,podcasts, everything is at your disposal " I am not sure whether other words are all correct. She spoke fast!

Pick Myself Up Today, I learned a new English expression as I was listening to an English podcast, "pick oneself up", I think it is similar to "put oneself together" or"cheer oneself up" when someone face tricky or difficult issues, am I right? Say, if we English learners were tripped by stones in our way of learning, we just pick ourselves up and keep going forward, one day we will arrive the destination. I love this expression.

Today's opinion Hey guys. Today is Friday, what is the day treating you? I am Tony, and it has been a long time that I haven’t spoken English, so I feel sorry about that,Today, I wanna share some problems I have met in learning English lately, Actually it is about a sample English expression, that is out of one’s reach, something out of your reach means you cannot handle it , something is too difficult for you to master, or it is out of your control, a few days earlier, I tried to challenge myself or( torture myself) by listening to some stuff out of my reach, I listened to some complex English conversations in computer, even though it was a very short conversation, I found that I can’t get what it is all about, I didn’t know what they are speaking, the vocabulary is hard, the speed the guys talked is too fast. Oh, my god it hurts me badly again. Anyway, I think It is very usual when it comes to our process in learning English, So personally, to some extent, I don’t think it is good for us to try something out of our reach, because, if we can’t understand some English stuff at all, we don’t know what it means totally, it may be a damage instead of a benefit to us. The result is that it can take away our confidence, our passion can’t go on. Perhaps some of you will argue that: No! , I want to challenge myself by something harder instead of those easier, so that I can improve that way, maybe that is a good point, but ,in my opinion, maybe it is good for you that you can do it sometime, but if we try something out of our reach too often, too much, that doesn’t make any sense. so my suggestion is that don’t push it too much, improvement needs time, we do easy one at first, we figure it out, absorb it, after, we feel happy and confident, and have motivation to study more, it is better I guess, and we could increase the level of difficulty a little bit later, step by step… So in a word, the key point for our learning is to hang in there, don’t give up for some reason. What do you think? So here is my opinion, I don’t know whether or not it is right, thank you!