I think you should not memorise all of the vocabulary. I would advise you to pick the words that you will use most often in your daily life and learn those first, along with a few harder words. After you know most of the common words (1000+) then you should branch out more, but learn words that are interesting for you. Maybe you would hear them in an English song or a movie or read them in English newspaper, translate them, learn them and use them. The most important tip I can give you, is as soon as you learn new words try to use them in conversation with friends or in writing as soon possible (within one week if you can), that way they will stick in your memory. Good Luck ! You will get there just never give up! Let me know if you need any help.

Awkward age

I am in this awkward age. I am concerned about my parents, but I do not want to tell them. I would like to spend more time with my parents but I am more eager to sit in front of the computer. I know what my parents want and what they said. But I don't know how to talk to them. I don't have patience for their out-of-date ways and opinions. My heart feels that my parents are getting older and even though I feel guilty, I still make them feel lonely with my behaviour.

Not bad, you need to keep practising and I am sure that you will gradually get much better. There are many ways this could be corrected as it is not entirely clear what did you exactly mean in some of the sentences. This is my version of the correction and I hope that you will find it useful. ;)

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food, travelling, hobbies, recent interesting events happening, movies, music, anything... :)

video chat or voice chat

Recently, I went about trying to start a video chat or a voice chat. Because I'm eager to practice my spoken English. I really want to speak English fluently. Then I could go abroad and meet experience (sound better) new things! Yeah, I like getting to know many new things, like new peple, new countries, new foods……
But worse the worst thing is, I cannot understand what they say as my English is so bad! Especially my listening skill. And I need more time to think what to say, that makes me like a fool! So I fear to call, but I hope I will have a call. I worried others won't want to talk with me again.

Oh, I think I should practise my listening and speaking for some time, then I can have a video chat or voice chat!

 

 

Thats pretty good Sophia ! I just corrected little grammar and sentence structure mistakes。 We can practise together and don't worry I don't mind if you think long or if you make mistakes. I am patient and I hope you can be patient with my Chinese too ;)... 加油