For a long time I have been dreaming of living somewhere abroad, of meeting new people, a new worldview and a different culture. I find it so unique and interesting! But no matter how much I study, something is lame. I thought I wasn't that bad until I started working after school, which involves communicating with a lot of foreigners, and I realized that I actually knew 1% of what I needed to speak it fluently without thinking for 10 minutes. to structure my sentence, and it just comes by itself correctly. I study English at school and in courses, but very little, 2 hours at school and 1 hour per course. At the moment I am generally in the 1st lesson in the textbook for A2. I studied English before, but then I was young and I didn't study, respectively, and I didn't understand anything, so from the 9th grade onwards I started learning it again from the 0th grade, and until the 12th grade I want to speak it perfectly. I am now 10th. I plan to go to the courses in the summer as well. The more I dig, the more I become convinced that this language is vast and I will never know it as a native speaker and I get very dumb. Is it possible to know a language perfectly without being in an English-speaking environment? Even if it's not perfect, I just don't want to make any absurd mistakes, because my grammar is a bit lame, I mix up the times a lot and I don't like grammar in general, it confuses me a lot. Besides, if I work 5-6 days a week all summer, will I lag behind with my tongue? Because at this moment I try to learn words every day, when I am somewhere all day I look at at least 5 words, and when I am at home I study 20 all day, but I have set 5 words as a limit for the absolute minimum. With just 5 words a day, will I be able to learn something like humans at all? It's a shame for me in the 21st century not to know at least 1 western language, but I also study German and there the situation is tragic and it becomes super dumb to me ..: d
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You write that you studied English before, but you study from textbook A2 and you are in the first lesson, so what do you expect? There is learning not only English, but every language, but you really have to dedicate time to learning. It doesn't matter how much time you spend, but what you do during the time. You are very tactless, what the hell is this - 5 words a day. Don't they make you take out the unfamiliar vocabulary on the courses? If so, I believe it can reach values of up to 40-50 words. Start watching videos in English (if you like), movies, reading articles, whatever. The important thing is to be surrounded by the language, to constantly hear and see it. Schedule your study time correctly, because sometimes it's better to read something in English and check out unfamiliar words than to just memorize random words you've written down in a dictionary. As for that, whether you speak as a 'native speaker' will not happen until you start living in an English-speaking country, so don't worry. Try to learn the basics, and street speech does not pay so much attention to grammar and it is permissible to make mistakes when using different tenses.