Friends say that the story is motivating and it should be published. Here you go.
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to know foreign languages, especially English, but I saw in front of me a huge blank wall, to which you do not know how to approach. There is no money for the courses. Seizures of memorizing words die out after a few days due to the feeling of hopelessness, and these words are forgotten instantly.
15 bags of potatoes. It all started with them. My village family always grew potatoes, the adults sold them later. At some point, my father showed me the bags and said: "Go sell to the store, 50% is yours." Within a week, for the first time in my life, I had enough free money to go to the courses.
At the courses, they explained that the future tense is expressed through will, "have + 3rd form of the verb" means that the action took place before the given calculated point, but there is also Present Perfect Continuous.
This is now "and what ??", but in the provinces before the Internet ... Remember how Moses pushed the water apart? Here. Finally, you have the opportunity to teach on your own!
Soon he moved to the capital and received additional motivation: in Moscow, somehow everything is about English, everything around it. After several months of surviving and working on three jobs, life settled down, it was time to take the language seriously.
At the age of 7, without access to children's literature, I read at home everything that came across, including Russian classics. Due to this, it was possible to pump the language quite robustly, well, at least the written language. Once, in the extended program, two third-graders hung out for me, and they also scolded me "for a fight"! I remember how, continuing to roar, I was lying right on the floor and writing a detailed official appeal to the teachers and students of the school: “... because you are Goats! Goats with a capital letter because that's your name. " He handed the teacher an extended period and then left. All the next few days I was shaking with fear: in those days to call teachers "goats" ...
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Perfectionism has found an application for itself here)) Fun fact number 3: those articles that are about learning foreign languages, I have been writing and editing for 8 years! Spent hundreds of man-hours trying to formulate AS MOST as short as possible. I would kill for half a day (no kidding), figuring out how to shorten a paragraph by at least one line without losing the meaning. I was glad when I managed to delete even one superfluous word.
Even after that, I did not calm down - I translated them into video format. All the same, of course, it turned out 69 minutes. Well, sorry - I did not shoot a commercial ... The work of a lifetime, so to speak.