Thank you so much.

Surely I'm nowhere close to the natives of English. I often try to ape, but aping is aping you know.

Although I believe if I ever got a fair environment to learn English, I could do much better. I was raised in rural India. I still remember how my English teacher in the high school used misspell on the board. Whatever English I know, I learnt it through videos, songs and self reading and mostly imitating because I knew it was easiest for me and could provide me lifelong opportunities for earning my bread and butter. So I learned speaking it but my writing remained just ok.

I got my first job as Spoken English trainer at the age of 17 and my pay was better than so many other teachers there. That was then made me learn it theoretically. Then I decided to do M.A. in English Literature. I did that privately (self study) again doing the same job, passed it with 80% plus marks, did M.Phil too and was then recruited in a college a Assistant professor.

To become an assistant professor for English in India was much easier back then...hahaa