here's and easy way to remeber the usage of colons and semicolons (is that a hypenated word ) Commas come after an appositvie which is like:

After he got tired of learning about english, (but no space inbetween the first word and the comma) blah blah blah

or

in a list like this: he hates the english language, people who speak it correctly, and even the country itself.

rules for a semicolon are the following: don't use it because no one knows how to actually use it. In other words, find a different way to write what you wanna say.