[Bureda]

My problems are prepositions and idioms.
I can study my dictionary to get know what nouns and verbs mean. But often prepositions came after verbs and change the meaning and they are too many to memorize.
I know that native speakers don’t think so. And I’ve heard that many native speakers have never heard the word “idiom”.
But for example: get across means oudansuru, hanasiga rikai sareru, tsuujiru, in Japanese.
Get after means hito/monono atowo ou, hitowo semeru, segamu.
Too many meanings and too many idioms you have!
Understanding prepositions is hard for me.

TIP: NEVER use 'and' or 'but' after a full stop. Remember a full step indicates a closer in a sentence, therfore your next work has to be a subject! not a Conjunction. Conjunctions are used to join/balance a sentence!

Don't Panic. It's similar to Japanese in many ways. You can say mother in many, many ways: 'Oka-san', 'Oka-chan', 'Ofkuro', 'Haha'. I do not know if I spelt those right, but Japanese focuses more on 'words' where as English focuses more on 'sentence'. We are governed by sentence making, whereas in Japanese you can say 1 word and it will make perfect sense.

See, you have the ability to do it! just have self confidence and patience. English is a lot to swallow.

Past, Present and Future is the most problematic part of learning for new people.

You need to focus in understanding sentence structure. The rest will come naturally!

Do you always take away ”that”?
You never say it?

When you're being descriptive you say it. When you're saying it casually you don't really need to say it.

I didn’t know he/she indicates that I know their identity.
I will write “person” instead of he/she from now on.

It's not that easy! You can use 'he or she or they' AFTER you know the subject!

Here's some examples:
- Today I met this lovely person in JF Forums. The person sounded eager in understanding the English Language! (See I am using 'this/the person' because I do not know their identity - Very indirect!)

Here's another example:
- Today I met YuriTokoro in JF Forums. She sounded eager in understanding the English Language! (Do you see how it varies slightly!?)

You're confused because posters in this forum use the term He or She a lot. They simply 'guess' or 'generalise' ones identity from the way they are typing/personality.

I will send you a PM with some facts and games! After you get the results PM me back!