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    Your English is fully understandable. When I read your entry, I knew exactly what you were trying to say. Your vocabulary is really good, and your personal pronouns were fine. Your next big step will be verb tenses.

    Translation: (I tried to keep your original grammar, but I did tweak it a bit in places for passive voice and clarity.)
    Today I was thinking about my progress learning English. I can say that I am making obvious progress, because four months ago I had zero speaking skills. On the other hand, I see problems with my learning. First, I don't have any structure in my learning. I always do what I want, so my learning is chaotic. As a consequence, I miss a lot of basic things. For example, very often I use the wrong personal pronouns even though it's easy. I need more practice with them, but doing practice exercises makes me bored and I never do them. My second problem is that I am not confident in my knowledge. So, it seems to me that I am always saying the same nonsense, even though other people tell me that they understand me. Because of that, I decided to write this text, to see how many mistakes I would make if I were to speak spontaneously. Please be so kind and correct my text. Thank you very much in advance.
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    I think the simplest way to say this would just be:

    "Yesterday, I was late because the traffic lights were not working."
    "Yesterday, I was late for work because the traffic lights weren't working."


    Yesterday I was late because traffic lights hadn't been working.
    "with this one, the past tense you are using is actually possible. However it is more complicated than I think you are meaning to use. 'hadn't been working' is saying that when you drove they were working properly, but previously they were not, and that is why you were late."

    Yesterday I was late because of traffic lights being not working.

    When I was commuting to work yesterday traffic lights hadn't been working.
    "I don't use the word commute this way, it is understandable and proper english. But typically, if I am using the word commute, it is a noun. 'My commute was awful this morning.' 'My commute to work is 45 minutes each way.'
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    January 29, 2020
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