Many times I asked myself: «What’s the most essential thing in learning English?
How to jump on the bandwagon and keep improving conversational skills?
It took me a long time before I started noticing the regularity in this subject.
Sometimes I even was upon the brink of despair, when I couldn’t express the simplest thoughts in relation to our everyday life.
I’d been forgotten new words as quickly as I learned them; I’d been looking up the some suitable phrases too long instead of speaking fluently.
It wasn’t the outcome that I waited from my efforts because at the same time I’d been hitting the Student’s books long enough to speak quite well.
But it didn’t work on me.
Now I can say that it’s the sort of a psychological problem, of a mental blocking in my mind.
I could hardly assume how far it has been pullulating in my life and activity.
I think it’s not only my problem.
Maybe thousands of people have got the hang of it.
Namely: we don’t actually live.
We are just going to live.
We don’t actually act, we’re looking forward to next day, next week, next life.
We don’t speak foreign languages, we’re just learning them again and again.
I don’t mean the procrastination.
I mean a state of mind when we can’t throw down our prejudice, can’t precipitate the authorities and feel responsibility for our lives and actions.
Then only you can make a deep sigh, wake up and understand that except NOW we don’t have anything.
These thoughts may appear too abstract, but my English is getting better day after day. :)
January 2014
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