Ok, ok, I will self-correct myself.
Thank you for a meaningful comment. It's all true what you've written. I'v been doing English for only two years and a half. This is a really short spell of time to become a proficient speaker - unless you're a superhuman or whoever. I emigrated to England,
give or take, two years ago, without/
not knowing English.
Usually all beginnings are difficult, so I couldn't understand a word produced by a Brit. At the time the languages which I could communicate were Russian, and French a little. How did I communicate with the English? I knew many English words, but I didn't know how to build up a full sentence out of the words I knew; that's why the minority I used to hobnob with was the Poles living in England, and I didn't like the idea, but I had to do that to get by one way or the other. As time passed by, the situation changed. I started to spend more and more time among native speakers of English, a bigger part of
which consisted of uneducated people (some of them were blue-collars workers and they spoke the best English), which had
a considerable influence on me. I have been learning English ever since I realized I couldn't stay in the country, amongst the people with whom I didn't have a word; therefore
Having retaken Matura exam,
I submitted my documents and started studying that language. I go to many
English friends (and there is also one family in Scotland) several times a year. I've never had it in mind to conduct myself as an authority on the forum, on the contrary, my 'input' concerned the things I thought I had knowledge of, and which were 'less advanced' to know
I guess. You said that I was implying to forum people that I knew more that I did, which I must disagree with. Sometimes I am afraid of writing some phrases that you, older people, may not know or have heard before, I'm not a teenage boy though. And believe me, I used to hear lots of them and some are really ugly.
The problem with me is that I've always
been overzealous, that is to say, I
tend to demand too much from myself, it's ingrained, deep-rooted inside of me.
I was born that way. Some people say it's an asset, some don't.
I self-corrected myself in order not to get bollocked (sorry for langauge). This was the only reason.
edytowany przez grudziu: 20 gru 2012