My Experience with Learning a Language

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I was born into a family whom primarily converse in English as a medium of communication. Therefore, as a child I quickly picked up the ‘rules’ of the English language as I listened to my family converse with one another. Then as I turned into a child old enough to attend primary school, it was there that I gained a better and more detailed understanding of the ‘rules’ of the English language and how to apply it in the proper situations. As for my experiences in reading English texts, even before I enrolled into kindergarten, my parents had already thought me to read simple sentences from children’s books. My love for reading English books was only instilled in me later in my younger teen years as my family had a mini library which I would visit regularly to cure my boredom. As I read more and more books that did not have the ending that I desired, I felt the urge to write my own story. As every first works of any author, it was a complete mess and that was the point that I vowed to myself to improve my writing skills by observing how other people wrote and to remember quotes or phrases that I felt were impressive. Another thing that heavily influenced my learning of the English language was movies and music. I listened to how people would converse and what tone they would use for what occasion and that in turn allowed me to be able to converse appropriately for whatever situation. Even though in my country I am considered quite well versed in the English language, I still have huge gaps in my knowledge or ability in the English language. For example, sometimes I would not be able to understand more formal corporate English as I am still a teenager and have not been really been exposed to that working world. I would also sometimes make mistakes in my grammar as a result of being overconfident in my ability of speaking and writing the English language. The conclusion
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