Article #1 Childhood Hello everyone i'm Nick and i want to share with you guys how russian native speaker learn English. I gonna make a few articles about my experience in different stages of my life. Primary school. Well, this is the most complicated stage because you know, i was a child, right, and although everybody says that in this age child perceive language better than in 30 y.o. for example, i knew something went wrong . My first English lesson happend when i was 7 y.o. and it was not the best experience. Indeed English teachers in Ukraine not really good, so yelling on children is usual stuff here. So, we studied alphabet and some easy words and phases but all attempts were unhelpful. Me and other classmates didn't speak English, just answered easy questions. Meanwhile, that teacher demanded a lot of knowledge, but we could say only: hello, what is the weather like today and good bye. Nobody taught us tenses, grammar construtions or conversation stuff, no, just words and its translations. I hope that in Europe and in other parts of the world there is a better situation than here. Of cource, i couldn't just be stupid like my "astounding" teacher, so i decided to ask my mother to be attended to english classes outside the school. That was my first right step toward English. In that school age nobody teaches you better than private teacher. I went to a english kind of school, where were evening classes after 3pm. I still remember my first lesson. My mom something messed around and told me to come in there at 4pm, but my group started learning at 3pm. So i came in but my teacher told thta my group is already gone, but i could stay with that group which was at the moment. So i stayed there and realized that during learning i began to understand many things so we decided to stay me with last group althought they were more experienced. Teacher explained us Present Simple, Continuous, past Simple and Future. Also i had a little Passive Voice and my vocabulary was improved. When i came at school i began do succeses in English, and my teaches sad: "look at him! What can be, if you will do hometasks and learn my exercises". From that moment forward to i hated public teachers. If you wanna know english and you have low level of knowledge, you should visit private teacher on the first time. He will teach you better that any public teacher or if you will figure out on your own. My first article is over. Thanks for reading and please, correct me. Bye for now)