How to increase my literary prowess? By that, I mean the ability to understand complex, nested sentences.
For the past 5 or so years, whenever I was talking to myself in my head, I pretended that I'm explaining the topic at hand to someone dumber and with time, my ability to understand complex sentences has declined. I mean I still can do it, just a bit slower. But what I've become more scared about is not understanding others, but expressing myself. I have tendency to break down the concept I have in mind in simpler terms, because I assume that the other person wouldn't understand otherwise. So it's maybe clear, but inefficient and frankly annoying. It's like using multiple tools one by one, instead of using a specific tool made for this very task and I don't like other people talking to me like I do, because I feel like a child or a retard. But I myself explain stuff to others in this way.
It's not about talking too long, because I make sure to look at the other person's feedback and adjust what I wanna say to their knowledge, but what's bugging me the most is a 'common' way of speech that I have. It's logical, but not profound.
Recently I started paying more attention to rarer words and trying to actively use them, because they're often more precise than something more common, but what else could I do? English is my second language, but I noticed that my grammar itself is really plain. I don't see other people using Past Perfect or some shit like that often, but somehow the flow of an average English speaker's sentences is better than mine. I feel kind of 'locked' in my writing habits and I often end up using the same patterns. How to break out of that? Should I read more? I'm able to communicate whatever I want, just not in the way I want. That is also true for my native language.
For the past 5 or so years, whenever I was talking to myself in my head, I pretended that I'm explaining the topic at hand to someone dumber and with time, my ability to understand complex sentences has declined. I mean I still can do it, just a bit slower. But what I've become more scared about is not understanding others, but expressing myself. I have tendency to break down the concept I have in mind in simpler terms, because I assume that the other person wouldn't understand otherwise. So it's maybe clear, but inefficient and frankly annoying. It's like using multiple tools one by one, instead of using a specific tool made for this very task and I don't like other people talking to me like I do, because I feel like a child or a retard. But I myself explain stuff to others in this way.
It's not about talking too long, because I make sure to look at the other person's feedback and adjust what I wanna say to their knowledge, but what's bugging me the most is a 'common' way of speech that I have. It's logical, but not profound.
Recently I started paying more attention to rarer words and trying to actively use them, because they're often more precise than something more common, but what else could I do? English is my second language, but I noticed that my grammar itself is really plain. I don't see other people using Past Perfect or some shit like that often, but somehow the flow of an average English speaker's sentences is better than mine. I feel kind of 'locked' in my writing habits and I often end up using the same patterns. How to break out of that? Should I read more? I'm able to communicate whatever I want, just not in the way I want. That is also true for my native language.
