As you know， I have been studying here in New York， the U.S.A. for more than half a year. My English skills are still puzzling me a lot， though. Especially with American guys， I have so many difficulties to communicate. It is not so difficult to tell them what I think or want or to understand what they try to tell me， but it is still difficult to have fun with them.
Why， it can be just my problem. I have some Japanese friends who do have fun with native speaker with their poor English. Hmm，I tend to get confused and nervous when I talk to the people whose English are better than me， I hate it. I have to calm down and be “neutral”. My English should be OK， I mean， not too bad to communicate. Then what I need now is，，，what?? Anyway it is true I need more strong vocabulary. Need to read.
And the fluency of my English also depends on the day， some days I can speak well， some other days I can’t， at all. This is a quite natural phenomenon，however， which even happens to the great English speakers. The important thing is to make it more frequent.
I don’t know if it was one of those good days for my English today， but in speech class， my teacher said my English had got even better， listening to my reading. I had thought he was a jerk because he hade been kind of hard to me， but now I like him. Why， as I said， my English really differs day to day， so I can disappoint him again， but I’ll just try not to do that.
Sometimes I do feel my improvement here， but some times I get disappointed in my own English. It is OK， I think. As I said above， it is natural， so I will just try in order to feel the improvements， in order NOT to get disappointed.
NEUTRAL!!
Pic: A car. That’s it.
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