My English Learning Journey
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Despite being exposed to English at a young age, I never had a strong foundation. It could be due to the frequent practice of "Singlish" where I would mix English and Chinese words between my speeches to get my message across. English lesson was always a struggle for me.
Since young, my teachers always encouraged me to read more books, build on my vocabulary and play around with different writing styles. I decided to give it try and, indeed, it did improve my language significantly. However, to me, I felt that reading books required too much commitment. Thus, I could not bring myself to cultivate the habit to read books. However, I found an alternative to exposing myself to English which is through the Internet.
I always liked to finding out about my friends' social life hence the creation of blogs has made my life a lot simpler. I could get updates on people’s life with just one click. After reading numerous blogs, I could understand why some bloggers are well recognised. They have the ability to write contents which connect with readers. Their posts are descriptive which made it easy for readers to follow along. If I come across any good quote, I would make the effort to apply it. Be it verbal or written.
My English learning journey started off rocky. The fear of being laughed at made me afraid to speak freely. As time passed, I feel it is much better now. I know I have to make a conscious effort not to make any grammar mistakes. I know I have to work on my sentence structures. But since English is a lifelong journey, there is still time for me to get the basics right. I will continue to read up and practice speaking good English.
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ReplyDeleteHey Ling Yi!
ReplyDeleteIt was a great blog post stating your english learning journey throughout the years. The story flow was smooth and interesting. However, on paragraph 1, the phrase "It could be due to frequent practice of "Singlish" could be better in the flow by editing to "It could be due to THE frequent practice of "Singlish". Your blog post also gave a detailed explanation of what you faced and what you did to overcome it. You also described your feelings in a way which people can relate to easily.
Overall, I am sure that you will be able to get the basics right and eventually english will be second nature for you. As always, practice makes perfect, so make full use of every opportunities to learn and apply it to daily activities. Good luck!
Hello Ling Yi!
ReplyDeleteI had an enjoyable time reading your blog post regarding your exposure to English. It was very heart warming to see how you overcame the language challenge to become who you are today. You are right ! Practice makes perfect so don't give up.
I am glad that you found an interesting way of learning English when you were younger, such as reading the BlogSpot of your friends & popular users. Personally, I feel that learning becomes easier when you are doing things that you have interest in. Keep up the good work! ;)
However, I feel that you could have added the title of 'My English Language journey' to help your readers understand the topic that you are blogging about. There were some grammatical errors within your post as well. But it is like you said, no one is perfect and we (including myself) constantly seek to improve!
Lets work hard together on this journey of effective communication and hopefully we'll both score 'A's ! All the best !!
By: Shaun Lau
www.shaunlau.wordpress.com
Thanks for the great tips, Alfred and Shaun! I would also like to thank you guys for proofreading my essays and pointing out my mistakes. I have edited the blog post according to the feedback. I hope I have sieved out most of the errors. Let's all work hard towards scoring well for effective communication! :-)
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