Good for you! Best way to be fluent in a language is to live in an English-speaking country. Never had this opportunity in my life. 

My native language is Albanian. 

carlosfandango

> The phrase ‘non-native’ is a nice alternative to ‘not a native English speaker’ (and you use that phrase later). And an alternative to ‘in middle’ you could use ‘perhaps the solution lay somewhere between the two.

That's the problem when you are a non-native English speaker: finding which alternative fits best in a sentence is difficult. 

Thanks for your comment. 

What about you, are you a native or non-native English speaker? 