Final
Essay
What
Is It Like For Me to Learn and Socialize in English
For me, I had a fairly easy time in
school. For a bilingual school, my school concentrated a lot on English. I am a
quick learner and I do socialize very well. Socializing and learning in English
was never a problem for me as my first language is English. Today, to me
English plays an important part of my life as I use it every day to do many
things.
I always found it easy to socialize in
English. I am actually better at it than when I do it in Thai and this is due
to the years I had, spending a lots of time practicing and developing my
English skills. It was ever hard for me to make new friends using the English
language, I don’t have much trouble doing this as I do in Thai. There’s no
misunderstanding or awkward moments when I try to say things and it is great.
Today, I have friends from all over the globe on the internet and using English
is just a bliss as we could share fun stories and chat to our hearts content.
It’s very easy for me to learn just about
anything in English. I have my parents and my teachers to thank for my
knowledge and understanding of the language today, because of them I just take
English like a duck takes to water. It was when my school turned full on
international was when things got real and English became a big priority of the
school. I do however sometimes struggle
a little bit with spelling mistakes and the occasional usage of wrong grammar
and tenses and back in the day I was a very slow reader, I could see the words
and read them in my head but it used to take me twice as long to pronounce the
words.
Using English is usually a doddle to me. I
can speak and write whatever I want without having to put too much thought into
what I’m going to say and that’s just great. However, sometimes mishaps do
happen. I may say something the wrong way or something that just didn’t make
any sense or just plain and simply sound very silly of me. This is more often
or not the case of me saying or writing something too fast for me to fully
comprehend the information. It’s a good thing that this happens rarely, no one
is perfect after all.
It was never difficult for me to either
learn or socialize using the English language. In point of fact I am very
thankful for it. It’s my first language and I’ve had all the practice since
when I first learned how to speak and thanks to the exposure to the language on
a daily basis both at home and t school it all had a positive effect on my
development on the language. I was always pushed hard in learning English to
get as good as I possibly could, even if it meant that I had to spend multiple
hours of the week in a special class just so that I could develop the skill to
read out loud faster in English. I’m very grateful for all the hard work that
many people had put into me to get me to the skill level that I am at today
just so that I’ll never have any language barrier in the English language and
so that many opportunities could be open to me and I can comfortably and
confidentially take them.
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