u/ITburrito

e.g. "We’ve been friends for a while”. How long is "for a while"? Is it a long time or is it a little?

I've been learning English for many years, particularly intensively over last few years. The thing is, however hard I try, I'm no longer making any progress at all. I keep making grammar mistakes during a conversation, sometimes really embarrassing ones (especially when it comes to auxiliary verbs). I can't get rid of my accent and learn to pronounce the sounds naturally (the "th" sound is particularly challenging to me, I still can't get the hang of it). I can't even remember when I'm supposed to use the "a/an/the" articles and when I'm not. It seems to me that I've got limited brain capacity for learning the language and I'm just not capable of doing it. Is it possible to do anything about it? What should I try to do in order to get my progress back on track? Is there hope or should I give up and come to terms with the fact that I've hit a wall?

How do I correctly express the fact that someone’s had a son for a while but I didn’t know it before?

What’s the most natural way to say there is a strong wind outdoors?