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I think recently somehow I lost the motivation to improve my English skills. It does not mean that I don’t like English anymore or I gave up learning English, but I need some time to introspect into my own mind. I placed too much attention on the vocabulary as well as the listening, but I just realise that without merging those book knowledge with practical experience, all that I am doing now is not efficient at all. Therefore, I quite learning English in this inflexible and simple way. However, although I know I need more practise and try to use English instead of Chinese as often as I can, just like the teacher told us, I can feel that there are something more profound inside the language learning. It’s not just about using frequently or hard-working, it’s about changing your concept of the object. For example, when we hear Chinese, we can immediately feel the meaning. But when we hear English, we can’t, or for the most of the time we can’t. We need to translate that into Chinese to find that similar feeling. Maybe it’s because the English speakers think differently and we have different mindsets. Maybe it’s because we have different understanding due to different culture, or maybe it’s a very complex reason combining all those points of view. Anyway, my English is far away from being satisfactory so that I still have a long long way to go