I've been watching presentations of English teachers on iTaki and what I've noticed. Disclaimer: I would not want to offend someone but if I offend you or your friend I am really sorry! I watch USA series and thought that all americans pronounce R very sonorous, like a cat purrs. But all the teachers pronounce it in a different way. Bright "R" is common for New York teachers and not for others. Other american teachers pronounce "R" like Canadian or British people. But I have met a man with so huge accent on "R" that it looks like that "R" is everywhere and he is like a tomcat. It is very nice. There was teachers those are very good and take less price. But I was astonished that a teacher who stammers and starts one word then changes it to another asks the top prise. (Can I say a sentence after "that" in the present or it should be whole in the past?) And third type of teachers: who is doubtfulness. I doubt that they are native speakers...

Why learing English is difficult for me I think there aren't many differences between Russian and English languages. Russian is learnt by me for over thirty years. I speak, write, think in it every day. I've learnt the grammar through all the school. So the result is I know Russian better than English. But what are about difficulties in your English, you may ask. I've recognized that I doubt / difficult in distinguishing words. Why is that? Because I have different sounds in my language. Those aren't so different but there is not a huge contrast between sounds in English and Russian. And it misleads me. The most important thing, I've noticed, is a frequency of using each of sound. My mind reject to accept that I should use "u" instead "ʊ" and other such things. Because the using frequency of those are low in Russian. We have many combinations of same sounds in Russian but they meet rare in Russian is often in English and vise-versa / upside down. I haven't caught totally yet how the spelling connected /conjugated with the pronunciation. I've just figured out some rules. In Russian you can read by syllables and you may sure that all correct. But we have floating stresses in the words. I really don't know they are floating or stable. All that I know that I feel it and if I meet unknown word I can be sure that I stressed / make the stress in it) it correct. That I like in English grammar is each word type definites its place in the sentence. But it confuses me sometimes because some words can be a verb but other can't. May be my thoughts is not clear on this moment because I am a human and a starter of learning English. But there are some insights that come to me and I hope they will help me improve my English and won't interfere / disturb / break my progress.

My first lovely teacher When I went to the first class I had only one teacher. I've forgotten her name. But she was young and I loved her. I hope that my wife won't read it. She is very jealous. The teacher thaught me and other children all the first class and then she betraited me. She vanished and by rumors I realized that she was pregnant. The second class headed by an old strict woman. She had taught in the age of USSR. In that yaer I was lucky to go to an aboard trip with my mather and her friend. It was the trip to Spain. The mother's firiend spoke English very well and I saw how he spoke with Spanish people. It was very weird because they spoke English very fast like in Spainish and when they had some complications they swithed to Spanish. It was cool there and I didn't swim in the sea. But there was an aquapark where I was spending all the time. When I came back to the school, the teacher was very angry because all pupils had studied but I was taned. She stood me in front of the class and tried to ashamed me.