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So, I'm supposed to evaluate my skills in the English language? And while I evaluate my skills in this essay, you, my personal tutor, will evaluate my writing skills, which I'm asked to evaluate. I didn't know that English teachers had a sense of humour. 
	 You have asked me to evaluate my listening, reading, speaking and writing skills, so I have chosen to divide this essay into four parts, evaluating one skill per part. 

Listening
I would say that I'm maybe not a good listener, but I understand spoken English very well (there is a slight difference, between to be a good listener and to understand a language, as you certainly are aware of). It's a skill that I have obtained, like most Swedish youths, not from travelling to English speaking countries, but from looking at American and British television programs. Some words may be unknown to me and I may not understand someone who is speaking about something very technical. 

Reading
I mostly read fantasy, a genre where the books mainly are written in English. Tired to wait for translations of books I wanted to read, I begun to read them in English instead.
	I now feel so used to reading English books, that I hardly think about it. I pick up a book in the bookstore and just read it, I don't usually reflect on which language I'm currently reading in. I often don't bother if I don't understand a word, as long as I understand the context. 
	I guess I have picked up a lot of words from reading English books, mostly nouns and verbs. My knowledge of English adjectives is not as great as my knowledge of nouns and verbs. I should try to learn more adjectives. Writing gets dull without adjectives, doesn't it?
Speaking
In this area I have my weak spots. I have never really trained speaking English. I consider my pronunciation to be quite good. I have some troubles pronouncing longer words, like the word pronunciation (a word that I already have mentioned one time in this part of the essay!).
	 I don't think that I speak fluently enough, at least I'm not satisfied in that area. I occasionally have spoken to American relatives, who where visiting, but that is about all training I have got except in school. 

Writing
Do I write much English? I'm a member of an e-mail list, where the members write a never-ending story, you could say. The members of the list are from all over the world, so the language we write in is English. I must confess that I haven't been one of the busiest writers on that list. I have written essays in school, so I have got some training there. The fact that I read a lot, has also added to my skills as a writer. 
	 Other than that I don't write much English nowadays, though I believe I am a quite good writer. (Sometimes I get writer's block though!) I can be a bit sloppy sometimes writing 'their' when I should have written 'there' for an example. Hopefully I haven't got any of similar faults in this essay.
	I'm bad at planning my writing. I usually start at the top and write to the bottom. I usually find a good first sentence and then the writing goes by itself. I believe this have to do with that I usually write fiction. I have to learn to write in a more scientific way, keeping to the point and learning to argument in a better way. I often write for myself not for the reader. My last Swedish teacher said that I was getting lazy when I wrote. I believe she was right. I usually rely on my talent and don't look through what I really have written.

I hope this warning have reminded me to be careful and give you, my tutor, some idea of my writing skills.
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