People often get stuck at an intermediate level. They feel like their English is not improving as fast as it did before. And in fact, sometimes it feels like you can't progress further and that your learning is blocked. This applies to moving from intermediate to a higher level, but much of it can be applied to making progress at a higher level too. You'll find a lot of what I'm saying transcribed on the page for this episode. The anecdote competition is coming along.