Diary - Over the past months, I forced myself to read

[Maybo]

This is an entry from my diary. Please check it and correct any mistakes.

Over the past months, I forced myself to read at least one piece of English news every day to improve my language skills. At the beginning, it was a torture because there were many new words and complex sentences. However, as I learn more, I'm getting used to them and I read faster. I don't believe there is "happy learning", at least to me, there is not, because memorsing things itself is tiring. Despite that, I enjoy the outcome because I can read something I like in another language.

 

[Tarheel]

I would say:

Over the past few months....

And:

At the beginning it was really hard ....

I wouldn't use the word "torture" because that makes it seem like it's painful, and I hope that's not the case. (Some might disagree with me.)