I don't think. I feel. Those times when i was a school-boy i couldn't explain to myself why to learn some rules of English grammar is so hard for me. Nowadays i won't start this entry with words same as "My first step in English", or "One more attempt to make my English better"... There are more than 15 years passed away, but i'm don't know any rules yet, except -s at the end of noun means that number of items is more than one. And also a little bit more than one and a half (: Any time i has dreamin' of my fluent English i was a lier. And that's why: First of all i has used an incorrect mental models. It's easy to explain for me now, cause more than 6 years i do my job as a UX designer. I like to watch different methods that people interact with "everyday things", design new interaction patterns & make some analysis. Indeed it won't make me closer to spell checking in English, but it also works. The second one is a emotion blindness.There are to many differences in cultural, historical & social backgounds of native speakers. That's why my desktop has filled less than a month with more than fifty books of english literature, music, art & others. Cause it's only one way to be done with my fluent English - make a right mental models in my mind. As same models of thinking as pure englishman have. Surely i could pick up some overused phrases & manage them, but it's not the right way for my opinion. Anyway the rules knowledge wouldn't be helpful in this way, cause "Rain is falling" phrase is quite pretty for Russian but truly unsuccessful for English. Rain is inanimate thing in English. "It's rainy outside" - is a good deal. Grammar rules won't be able so helpful & safety to prevent this mistakes. I'm already knew that all of that massive of letters contains a pack of various mistakes, which should be corrected. And i'll be happy if you correct me each time as i did it wrong way. I promise to be patient (: There's a gr8 problem with verbs & times, It proceeds from my sсhool time. And I fairly admit that I used the dictionary only 4 times before i finish this note. PS Thanx in advance for your corrections. If you would like help with your Russian or have a little conversation, please feel free to contact me.