ButterMilk

Hi Zhenni! Your story looks a lot like mine, I also lived in China and struggled with the language, I'm still trying to learn it after all these years. Maybe we can help each other, I'm avaliable if you want to contact me. It would also be nice to talk to someone who is a native English speaker. Xie xie!

This. But I'll expand a little bit: I think spaced repetition is also the key, when you keep seeing the same thing over and over again, after a while it gets absorbed very easily. You not only don't feel like you're learning (very important) but it's also very effective.