>be me
>read a lot
>English is not my first language, but I am pretty good at it
>living in the UK for several years now
>in the last 5 years I am only reading in English
>lvl 2 english reading test comes up
>fail
>identity crisis
>I am not sure if I am retarded or not
>Planned to read faust in english next, but I don't know what to believe anymore
Has anyone experienced surreal stuff like this?
hold me please, /lit/
>>7840157
Did you subvocalize?
>>7840157
faust in english<
why
>>7840157
Can you give en example of this test?
>>7840451
*an
I fucked up big time
>>7840189
Do you say the words in your head when you're reading them
I have this fantastic idea for a novel but my prose is not good enough yet and I don't want to ruin the novel with it.
I've been writing some short stories which I think are not half bad (especially considering my homelands immense lack of good literature or literature at all).
And since I'm aSTEMlord[/spoiler[ with what little time I have left from studying I spend reading or improving my prose at a snails pace.
>>7840466
how do you even distinguish bad from good prose
what even is good prose
>>7840466
Just write it, you'll never run out of excuses and the idea is probably not as good as you think anyway.
>>7840466
>>7840157
>tfw shit at English
>tfw shit at my native language
>tfw doomed to never write well
kill me /lit/
>second language is Spanish
>live in Miami
>read Borges and Marquez to improve grammar and vocabulary
>feel confident talking to Latino coworkers
>quit job and stop practicing
>have gotten made fun of for bad Spanish
>now I think I suck and don't speak the language often anymore
>>7840483
whats your native language
>>7840505
Arabic
>tfw try to write every few months and have newfound respect for all writers that gradually decreases until i chat shit about Joyce and Melville until i try to write again.
A neverending cycle.
>>7840494
Keep learning faggot, you're not learning for other people, it's for you. I wish I could read Bolaño and Borges in Spanish.
>>7840512
محمد هو شاذ جنسيا
>>7840472
The subconjuctative 'what even' is not good prose.
>>7840524
Drop the هو
>>7840461
Sometimes,but its not about that
>>7840451
http://www.cityandguilds.com/qualifications-and-apprenticeships/skills-for-work-and-life/english-mathematics-and-ict-skills/3748-functional-skills-qualifications#tab=information&acc=level2
I am on a training course at the workplace, so I have to do it, but basically I have been doing all kinds of these tests at my country in my whole life so it shouldn't have been a problem.
>>7840553
Dear anon, maybe what you lack is knowledge of Cities and Guilds? Your English seems to be fine.
