“I won’t be able to use much the computer today. I have to go to a place.”

“It’s incredible how flies the time! It will be Christmas soon!”

Sorry, I am still learning English. I hear many people who have second-language English that is my friends say that though.

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    7 hours ago

    No, those are not correct.

    If I saw either of those, I would assume that you started learning English recently. (Which is fine, it just means more work for us to understand each other)

    As other comments have said the meaning is mostly clear but it’s not how native speakers talk.

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      6 hours ago

      I wouldn’t assume that.

      I would place these in around a B1-B2 level. Which to be on that level means you’ve been learning for a good while.

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        3 hours ago

        Ah, probably so - I have no idea how long in absolute terms it takes to reach any given amount of fluency, but my thought was that they noticeably still have a way to go - which I figured was why they asked, to get a straight answer on that.

        I also have no idea how it’s evaluated or what system those level labels are part of.