Do you have any difficulties with communicating in English?

For context:
I've studied english in school for 11 years - from when I was 12 'til I stopped Uni. Never been for more than few days in English speaking countries and I mostly speak/write in English with people for whom English is not their native language either. I use English both at work (spoken/written and translations English to my native language and the other way around) and during my "free" time (only written).
I mostly listen to music, watch movies/TV shows, read books and everything else in English. To a point where I don't get through a day without mixing up both languages...
Yet, I feel like I struggle way too much with it given how much time I've spent studying it...
I used to have huge problems speaking in English - not because I couldn't but because I felt so self-conscious about my accent... But then, for work, I had to speak with people from various countries (some with really strong accents too) and both the fact that I didn't really have a choice and that those people didn't have a flawless English either made me feel way more comfortable.
Add to that my country have a "reputation" of being bad with English - so people are way less demanding regarding my way of speaking.
I make a lot of mistakes (misuse of words, grammatical errors, my mother tongue makes me having a really hard time pronuncing "h" and "long e" - "beach" and "bitch" sound exactly the same when I'm saying it), but I don't really care anymore,
I try to get better but it's not an issue anymore

I isnot speak london.

Nah English is easy :3
if you would say Arabic then yea...

Abusuluteli no porblems. My Inglish Luggage is neerly purfact.

I've been told sometimes I sound a bit rude for talking too openly about things instead writing it in a nicer way... which confuses me because my goal is usually to say what I mean in a simple and understandable manner, but I guess pure text can never be as accurate in expressing your attitude as it can be in combination with other communication channels (sound of voice, accents, intonation, facial micro expressions, gestures and so on)

I guess my English is fine but because I learn with english videos or movies I do learn the meaning of some words but often not the translation in my native language which leads to some confusion for me if for eample I'm in a situation where a saying in english would be fitting.
It got so far that as I tried to explain it to my english teacher, she asked me, in all seriousness, if german was my native language.

TL;DR: Use subs, guys

My english sucks in general and i also have a horrible accent when speaking. :/

I spik inglish veri gud

I often use google translation when I read ^^

This is the weirdest poll I've ever seen.........
Have no idea what kind of data you think will give you this.

I love English, I am a non native English speaker/user and don't have problems with English neither from native speakers nor from non native speakers.
Unless.......someone is really very bad at the language, with having an imcomprehensible accent, weird pronunciation or is making many (grammar) mistakes.

A native speaker is easier to understand and follow than a non native speaker but if that non native speaker is fluent at English it is totally understandable to me.

So.......what poll option comes close?
None of them!

Besides, the poll asks if I have difficulties communicating in English: I don't.
But more important might be if other people have difficulties understanding me.

But I highly doubt anyone would have troubles understanding me.
I was on holiday once on Majorca and had a lovely and very long conversation with an English lady.
At the end she hesitantly asked where I was from cause she couldn't place my accent.
She thought I was a native speaker and maybe I was from Ireland?
She was really surprised I wasn't a native speaker but also a bit relieved, as now it made sense she couldn't place me somewhere on the UK map.

If people don't understand me, it's rarely because I said something wrong.

The poll only looks at one aspect: do YOU have trouble communicating.
YOU

What about they?
THEY
Do they understand you?

Communication is a 2 way street.
Having good speaking (communicating) skills doesn't guarantee that I am being understood.
Misunderstanding can occur due to cultural differences but also from lack of comprehensive skills from the listener/the one spoken to/with.

Feel a bit like I am rambling here........

But you still got me totally lost at your poll:
No way to answer it for me.
As far as I can see: no way for you to extrapolate data from it.

Side Note:......English is written with a capital E.

The tribulation with fancy writing is that it expeditiously becomes incommodious and harrowing to decipher. "Nobody declaims like that", you'll cogitate, or, "why not just use a quotidian lexeme instead?". Polysyllabic words that occur sporadically are unobjectionable when they have a specific connotation that you indubitably need to make use of in a scene, but just trying to harmonise yet another hapax legomenon because you can is liable to produce writing which clanks like faulty mechanical paraphernalia.

I want to vote "Yes - from Non English-speaking countries" and "Yes - from English-speaking countries".
I never speak english so my pronunciation is probably horrible.

No - from Non English-speaking countries

No, it's an easy language to get a basic proficiency in, and even if you speak like tarzan people can understand you.

Bump for new giveaway. :)

Yes, sadly. I'm pretty scatter-brained so I sometimes my brain is working much faster than my mouth can keep up. So I lose track of my place in the middle of a sentence, forget words, repeat a thought slightly differently to better convey what I'm trying to say, and slight stutter or flub up the pronunciation as I panic with the train of thought being derailed. I think my skills are fine, but the way I try and use them... Fortunately, I can still write somewhat well at least ^^'

bump

Despite over twenty years of studying and speaking English I'm still worried about making mistakes. Sometimes when I write I have to check myself with google to see if the expressions I use are appropriate for what I'm trying to communicate or look for alternatives cause I dislike repeating words within phrases. Is that weird or what?
I've been working abroad for a few years now and I mostly talk to expats whose native languages aren't English so I feel my language skills are getting worse. The kind of people who argue that Dutch is spoken in Germany because... Deutschland. rolls eyes

Oh well I always start with a "sorry for my eng", I'm pretty terrible and I know that XD
At least my only purpose is to make me understand, not speak / write correctly
Still sometimes I'd to explain myself twice before the other one can understand exactly what I want (strangely is happen less when I speak... I'm pretty sure my pronunce is awful...)
I try to not use the Italian syntax, remember all the tense rules, etc ... but eng is boring and distant from italian.
In my opinion no one can speak a L2 like a native, u can be good and make understand by a lot of people but u will still put some crazy phrases time to time and cannot avoid it :P > and I dnt even try because I'm lazy

Yep, there are some obvious difficulties coming from the fact that I haven't actually used English since maybe 2010 (aside from playing games, watching movies and shows, reading books and occasional articles and listening to songs - basically, I've been using it only passively). My pronunciation is virtually nonexistent (and it used to be pretty decent), I make embarrassing spelling and grammar mistakes all the time, and my active vocabularly has shrunk severely. Still, it's usually enough to express any thoughts in an understandable way, and it should be pretty easy to restore my language skills to a satisfactory level if necessity comes.

I don't have any problem using English to chat online with people or type/read. My only problem is the speaking part, I sometimes find it difficult to understand what others say not because I don't understand the words, but due to the fact that I somehow can't focus on all the words and do miss some of them. (This happens especially when I'm talking to a British person)

I had problems communicating in English when I visited France. :) Actually fewer than I had expected.

Really, verbal communication is an issue, due to accents and local language use (idioms and region specific words).

Anyway, in a Paris hotel my wife asked for a sheet and got toilet paper. I'm not sure whether to blame that on the French or on her own accent.

I have no problem understanding English written and spoken. I like to think what I write is quite understandable by others as well, although I use google sometimes to find out if my sentence is grammaticaly correct. Speaking is whole different thing. Where I live don't have any occasions to use it and, as a result, practice it. Also I blame my shyness and lack of confidence, but I'm realy affraid my accent sounds funny and people will laugh at me. So, when I'm to speak, I can only think about that accent thing and forget even the simplest words. One day some foreigners asked me about directions; I panicked, and the only thing I said was: "Sorry, I don't speak English" -.-

English is not my main language but i have no problem speaking / writing in English , mostly because we start learning english in 4th grade in school . And i also use it daily on internet and then playing multiplayer games with friends