However, the very fact that there are many general-question letters coming in makes it imperative for me to address them now and then, every once in a while.
And so here we are. Let me make a few points.
First of all, a caveat. I’m happy to share a few ideas with you but I don’t want to impose any of them on you – because I know fully well that what I take as sacred might not be the case with you. One man’s potion can be poison to another man, or woman in your case. Therefore, take what you can and disregard the rest.
Second – and this is the true – I don’t know anything about hasty improvements in English. In fact, I only know one way and that is the hard way. It takes time and honest effort, but more on that later.
Third, which is really an important point to note, your English is pretty good (you must have been doing things right). Considering your age and young career, I cannot think of anything lacking on your part, except perhaps in the patience department. This will be the focal point of our discussion today.
We live in an age of rags-to-riches stories dominating the news every day and billionaires seem to be getting younger and younger. In this environment, youngsters like you become very impatient – both with yourselves and with the world around you. That is understandable.
But one has but to be patient when it comes to language learning.
Actually, what I want to say to you is two-fold. First, there’s not a whole lot one can do to improve one’s language skills. Unlike getting rich via an IPO, mastery of a language doesn’t happen as often and never overnight. Language learning is not like playing the lottery either, or getting hit by lightening. Those things happen quickly, if they do at all. Language learning is, as you say a slow process. There are young Gates and Zuckerbergs emerging through billions of people once in a great while – not often at all if you come to really think about it – but language masters do not come around that often, nor as young. That is because, as you pointed out, you need a whole “scope of knowledge” in order to speak effectively – and that takes time, too.
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