why my English is still weak after 14 years learning? I am a graduate student in a science and engineering university. It is about 14 years since I began to learn English in middle school, but I still can not use it smoothly, especially in spoken and written English. Recently, I have written a research paper. Fist I wrote in Chinese and then translate the paper into English. This process makes me feel sad. After so many years study, I still can’t write in English directly. More sadly, I don’t know how to how to improve it effectively, and all the work I have done seem to be vain.