terrible english

[Mordraugion]

to me the standard of English is outweighed by willingness to learn and I'm sure once you get addicted your skills with the language will rapidly improve

[Miaua]

to me the standard of English is outweighed by willingness to learn and I'm sure once you get addicted your skills with the language will rapidly improve

I'm kinda living example :]
When I appeared, more then an year ago, I wasn't nearly able to manage a correct sentence.
And now... See ^_^ Though I have occasionally a bit of grammar troubles, my English improved dramatically.
Not even using dictionary in background.
Keep trying, chat a lot and it will go Good luck.

[Phinehas]

to me the standard of English is outweighed by willingness to learn and I'm sure once you get addicted your skills with the language will rapidly improve

Exactly.

[Parallo]

English is a dreadful language for learners. Particularly in spelling. Bernard Shaw's example of how you can spell fish as ghoti is a perfect (if slightly exagerated) example. ‘Gh’ can stand for ‘f’ (enough), ‘o’ can stand for ‘i’ (women) and ‘ti’ can stand for ’sh’ (nation).

[darhark]

Then it is a great fortune that Laanx blessed us with no need in knowing those things when playing PS %))

[Parallo]

You play without using the English language. That is actually amazing!

[darhark]

Ehh  . Nope. It's simply i don't need to know how it actually sounds. I know it already thouth. Almost.

[Phinehas]

It's ok, Parallo doesn't understand English either, but it doesn't keep him from RP!

[LigH]

Parallo: French is even more surprising, regarding the differences between written and spoken language (think of "Bordeaux" for example).

From my experience, the hardest part about different languages are differences to your native language in grammar. Vocabulary and pronounciation are nothing compared to the "different feeling" of a foreign language.

In german we have a common note about the "gerund" form of continuity:

Always remember: Gerundium is no mineral!

[Maulus Octir]

I myself am a native English speaker, but I have many friends who are not. For instance, my guild leader, when he was first recruited (by mel O.o ) was, frankly, lost in terms of English, but over the past two years I have known him, he has gone from being constantly corrected by me (I'm a language "Nazi" when it comes to guild mates) to constantly correcting me! Several of my other friends have gone from incomprehensible speakers to expert orators.  

[Orgonwukh]

Just an advice: Ask your English-speaking guild mates or associates in game to help you. I, for example, appreciate any help and do not feel offended when someone is correcting me. Being in a guild where only English is spoken does help a lot, too. I would also like to thank Izzabella here for helping me to improve my English so many times.

[veinslayer]

i'm taking spanish 2 and i try to aid spanish speakers as best i can...i know there's another klyros out there implementing it as a lost language...in terms of player-to-player help planeshift is second to none...really...and if you habla espanol...and i make a mistake....feel free to bite my friggin head off....

[Strawfox]

Hello. I totally see what you mean, and there is (it's only my point) only one solution for your problem. It's practicing. Watch american films in VO(ST), chat on IRC (#planeshift@Freenode ), read books in english, eat english, drink english, wee english..

I'm natively french-speaker and I've learned english since I was 8. (I've stopped my studies at 20). Now I'm 25 and I know I still have a lot of work to speak (at least write) english fluently. I can feel it gets better but it's work like I've written up there.

Don't discourage you and make it work.