Learning

I was pretty locked in my English, but I started doing chores and talking with partners. Looks like I'm getting better !!! :)

Hi Júlia. :) I tend to make corrections that aim for more natural flow, so I've changed some of your wording. Great job in getting your English "unstuck" by the way! :)

Learning

My English wasn't progressing (or: My English was stuck) but I started practicing and talking with partners. It looks like I'm getting better!

i and I

What's the difference beetween uppercase and lowercase "i"?

Hi Luis, did you want an answer to this question?

Uppercase=I and lowercase=i. When referring to yourself you always use uppercase. We don't have a word that is spelled "i" in English (lowercase).

Delicious lunch!

I just finished eating lunch. I had some potatoes, Chinese cabbage, and daikon radish. They're all common vegetables, but they taste good. Because I like them very much, I added some hot peppers.

Hi Oye, <em>finished</em> is already past tense. When you add "had" it sounds like you're going to say something like: "I had just finished eating lunch when the telephone rang."

Also, "white radish"  - you're talking about the regular, long, white, <em>lubuo,</em> right? This is called daikon radish in the US.

I hope this is helpful, I also made sentence changes to make your notebook entry sound natural.

Nativity is probably the easiest way to assess a speaker's language ability - not necessarily their teaching skills, though. I found my best German teacher was a non-native speaker because she understood the mechanics of learning grammar and didn't just brush things off when learners struggled with unfamiliar things. The native teacher was sometimes unable to explain things because she relied on "feel" or "intuition".

Often a non-native teacher knows the challenges faced by the learner and has more sympathy. So, in that sense, I think the reluctance to work with non-native teachers is because learners are not sure (being new to the language) if the teacher has great pronunciation or not or whether the teacher really has fluency and will avoid teaching mistakes.

I find I keep looking at the native German speakers as potential teachers here - guilty of the same problem you bring up!

english

I'm seeking to improve my English with an aim of aiming at getting to more work possibilities. Furthermore, I'm learning out of for personal ineterest.

Just a few changes for improved flow and complete sentences. A final version without bold/strikethrough would look like this: 

I'm seeking to improve my English with an aim of getting more work possibilities. Furthermore, I'm learning out of personal interest.

:)