My damned English  

my understanding about Chinese is that they are are the most pursuasive poeple on earth and if they want to shcieve something they definitely do and your problem is not big, just try to spend more time with english speaking people, even if do not contribute to the conversation. Listening to people talk a language will make a lot of difference and one more thing, read lots of books off american or indian authors, you will start thinking and speaking like better soon. Best of Luck

Is your problem more with written or spoken English?

If you need to practice your written English then myLot is a fun place if you have time to read and respond on the discussions. No-one is going to scold you here if your English is not perfect and while participating it will improve. There are many Lotters who are here just for that purpose - and they earn a bit for doing so too.

Your English seems great, so I don't think you need a lot of improvement in the writing/reading part of the test.
About the oral test... I improved my oral English by chatting with friends on Ventrilo, Skype and phone. At the begining they were like... "huh? what did you say?" every two minute, but now they rarely say it.

Hi litian,

If you want to improve your English writing skill, you have to make a lot of writing practice and one of the place you can do it is here. You can participate in the discussion and try to improve your writing skill. Just like mysd said above, you can improve your writing skill and at the same time you can earn some extra money. And if you have a lot of friends, you definitely will have a lot of fun here.

While learning writing skill can be learn from computers or books, learn how to speak and or pronounce something in English require a teacher or someone who knows the proper English knowledge. You can not learn it from computer or book because you need to say the word(s) in a correct way. If you have someone who know about it, they can correcting your pronunciation and speech immediately. Otherwise you will comfortable with the way you say it and it is hard to change it once you knew you have done it wrongly.

To improve your oral, you better practice it a lot. If you feel shy, try to use it with your friends or your family.

I don't understand what the problem is. Your English seems pretty good to me. It is certainly better than my Chinese...lol..know one Chinese word.
Welcome to mylot. Spending time here should give you the practice you are looking for.

Hi your english seems to be better. As many, learning other languages always have its difficulty and it differs from person to person. You have learn english online too. There are oral sessions where they teach you pronounce words in rite way. I feel via online u can grasp language easily.

I feel your pain, I am foreign myself and while I studied English in my country of origin, it is not enough what they teach you in school, that is only for survive. but you can't do too much with it, in my opinion, what really helped me a lot was getting exposure to the language, watch tv, listen music in English, and talk, if you don't talk your pronunciation will be really bad, with any new language there is new sounds that our mouth is not accustomed to make, so those are things that develop with time and practice, I am assuming that you are in China, so I don't know how many people that speak English as first language you know, but you must practice as much as you can, use Skype to chat with people, many of my classmates used it to learn English, they will chat with English speakers.

hi! i understand that you feel disappointed with you scores. i myself is not really good in speaking and even writing english. let me tell you that although English is the universal language, it doesnt mean we have to learn or practice english FLUENTLY. even the english-tongued people arent that fluent when they speak it. as you said, you are naturally-born chinese and that's what you are. you dont have to put yourself to the world just to please them. there are many people who arent born with english tongues but succeeded.

Hi Litian, I am not so good in English as well and I didn't even grew up in an environment to practice good English. But since I am determined to learn it and I really want to be able to speak the language without rattling or running out of English words I find my own ways of improving myself. I watch foreign movies specially American movies, reading English books and magazines and when I go online to chat even if local friends I chat in English and I search for foreign speakers to talk to. For some it might sound showy or boastfulness but I don't care because that's the only way I could practice and improve myself. And the more I persevere to learn the English language when I got a job wherein all the people I'll be talking to everyday are all Americans, Canadians or any foreign people only. I even enrolled to some English related short courses to evaluate myself. In my job if the client didn't understand you because of poor English speaking you're fired. I like my job because everyday I'm dealing with foreign people. And for now I want to improve more of my English speaking skills because I find it very easy to communicate to anyone in any walks of life because I feel confident. My English is not so good but at least I am able to express and share my thoughts to foreign people. So, I think it will not be a big problem to you as well. Just keep on practicing it and try to find an easy way at your own pace so that learning it will not become something like pushing you against the wall and you feel all the pressures. Your ways of learning it should be enjoyable so that the more you'll appreciate it.

English is one of the hardest languages to learn in the world. So don't feel so down about it. Some of us English speaking people are pretty clumsy with our language too. There's a lot of rules that English breaks, which makes it pretty difficult to understand. It can sometimes be less fluent and harsh.

Your best bet to learn any language to read and listen to how other people speak the language on top of schooling. I also suggest the software Rosetta Stone, because it is considered one of the best software to use to learn any language.