I've been in the United States for six years, but for some reason I still can't speak English. My sentences always come out overwhelmingly butchered (sometimes the subject pops up in the middle of nowhere), and I keep having to repeat myself before I can be understood. It's not that I don't get the grammar--because I do (at least, I think I know my grammar when I'm writing), but yeah.
This is becoming not only embarrassing (people who came here later than I did speak better English than I do and I'm often thought to be a recent immigrant), but also inconvenient. I'm only eighteen. Is there any practical way to improve my English? I think my pronunciation isn't bad, and having an accent doesn't really bother me as long as I'm understood, so I guess my question is: How can I start speaking English with acceptable grammar? Just for the record, my speech impediment has resulted in not enough close friends to practice with.
2006-08-02
03:51:36
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just_emily
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