Tryng to fight despair

Medan, Indonesia
August 21, 2020 11:57am CST
Meet me Kuliat Simbolon . I'd love to be able to speak English, everything I've done from listening to English songs and translating them, trying to watch movies with English text reading English books to now just starting to use Mylot, but until now my English is still below average let alone in terms of communication and writing in English I definitely find it difficult. For mylot friends can anyone advise me to improve my English even more?
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@sunil4ya (185)
• Bangalore, India
21 Aug 20
Mingle with people who speak English a lot on a regular basis and you will learn automatically. This has happened to many of my high school and college mates, the ones who could not speak a single English sentence, now after many years I find them speaking English fluently!
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@sunil4ya (185)
• Bangalore, India
25 Aug 20
@annavi23 We are exposed to our native language by birth so we learn it without effort. So basically it's a matter of exposure I believe.
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@annavi23 (6522)
• Philippines
24 Aug 20
That must be nice studying English smetimes really can be hard if it's not your native language.
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@annavi23 (6522)
• Philippines
27 Aug 20
@sunil4ya Oh well, guess we really have to speak with English native speaker to become more like them when speaking English.
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@db20747 (43440)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
21 Aug 20
Practice with a native speaker and have them speak very slowly
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• Medan, Indonesia
22 Aug 20
Thanks for your advice
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• United States
21 Aug 20
I'm happy that you are making an effort improving your English :-) What you have been doing are ways that will help you go farther in your journey to perfecting your English :-) I hope you'll have English speaking friends whom you can communicate with and spend some time with them when you guys have free time. Have a great weekend ! :-) Still, stay safe.
• United States
22 Aug 20
@Kul190995 Yessss! :-)
• Medan, Indonesia
22 Aug 20
I'm getting even more excited.
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@kanuck1 (4434)
21 Aug 20
Welcome to myLot! Practice makes perfect, so practice writing on myLot and practice speaking with others. All the best!
• Medan, Indonesia
22 Aug 20
I Will be try
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@kanuck1 (4434)
22 Aug 20
@Kul190995 Great! So, how are things in Indonesia?
• Medan, Indonesia
22 Aug 20
@kanuck1 Indonesia is currently still impacting corona, but the condition is new normal. Just pray for the best for us
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@Nakitakona (56486)
• Philippines
22 Aug 20
How do you know that your English is below average? Have taken an English grammar test?
@Nakitakona (56486)
• Philippines
24 Aug 20
@Kul190995 So how do you know that you're below average?
• Medan, Indonesia
22 Aug 20
Never
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@sophie09 (34236)
• Indonesia
22 Aug 20
You said your English is below average. Have you watched your grammar here? It is fantastic
• Medan, Indonesia
22 Aug 20
I Will be try study grammer
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@sophie09 (34236)
• Indonesia
22 Aug 20
@Kul190995 your grammar is mostly correct on your discussion here
• Medan, Indonesia
22 Aug 20
@sophie09 please correct
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@AmbiePam (92886)
• United States
23 Aug 20
My late mother taught English to a girl from Iran, and she started with children's books, then had her go up to higher ages as she progressed. I think you are doing a very job so far. You have a few run on sentences, but overall you have done a great job.
• Philippines
21 Aug 20
Read a lot of english books, watch english film and try practicing by talking in english to people like when ordering foods etc.
• Medan, Indonesia
22 Aug 20
Thanks for your advice...
@annavi23 (6522)
• Philippines
25 Aug 20
Practicing it with a native English speaker can be helpful. It is nice that you are improving. Being in here can help you write more and interact with using English language. Plus, you'll get to gain friends as well. Keep it up, and soon you'll get used to using English and improve grammar as well.
@pjmurphy (2499)
• United States
22 Aug 20
Welcome to mylot. Hope you enjoy your time here. This should be a good place to practice your English.
• Medan, Indonesia
22 Aug 20
Thanks, i hope too...
• Agra, India
22 Aug 20
Each English stories and listen to podcasts
• Medan, Indonesia
22 Aug 20
Thanks for your advice
@emnuhpe (993)
• Medan, Indonesia
26 Aug 20
welcome to mylot. I am an Indonesian like you who are still learning English today. one of the ways I improve my English is to communicate in writing using English in mylot.
@Overflowing (3709)
22 Aug 20
I think your english is fine already,but if you want to improve just keep on communicating to people in english,like here..its good that your pursuing to learn and you study
• Medan, Indonesia
22 Aug 20
I Will be try more often
@Marmens (38)
• Spain
21 Aug 20
There are some websites which helps to improve English skills.
• Spain
22 Aug 20
@Kul190995 Have a look at that one:
• Medan, Indonesia
22 Aug 20
Please tell whice one?
• India
21 Aug 20
The only thing best I can suggest is practice it as much you can and you can do it here
@nawala123 (20871)
• Indonesia
22 Aug 20
just be sociable in here mate