Some of my goals were to learn English, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to communicate and succeed as an immigrant. The decision to come to USA was my parents decision , at first it was hard because I didn’t like the idea, but later on I realize that I didn’t have other option so I decided to start learning . “In America everybody can be successful and if we try hard everybody can make their dreams come true” my teacher used to always tell me that and I could never forget it even when she forgets to told me that it wouldn’t be easy. At first I felt that I could never learn, because when I was listening it sounds like people said 1000 words without pause. Well that’s because I don’t know how to speak it an I try to listen what people said, but it always got me confused Last name 2 because when I read, it was so different from what I heard.
Rodriguez felt safe in his Spanish speaking home because it was familiar to him. English seemed odd and difficult for Richard until a few of Richard’s teachers visited his house. They asked Richard’s parents to encourage the use of English, by using it more themselves. As Richard began to hear English more and more, "the high, troubling sounds of los gringos" became unnoticeable to him. Learning English helped Richard to achieve many things.
Having severe speech problems as a child, combined with handwriting and spelling issues, I found myself keeping more to my own thoughts and never being able to express my thoughts on paper. At the time, I did not have the ability to sort through my constructive thoughts or even put them on paper. Fortunately after I began going to The Shelton School, a private school for children and teens with learning differences, it was made clear that I should be put into extensive reading and speech classes with the hopes of helping with my struggles. Even though the classes did help me out tremendously with my struggles of spelling and speech, my issues with being able to sort through my jumbled thoughts were never addressed. When I eventually transferred to public schools, the issues that everyone overlooked because they were not an obvious problem for me really came back to haunt me when I was assigned any sort of extensive writing assignment.
Through Amy’s life it was hard for her to become the writer she was aspiring to be. It was a hard struggle as an Asian American to succeed in something that no one believed she could. Although English wasn’t her first language, it helped her in the long run to understand the English language better. Not all people who speak the English language speak it the same way. I can say that it is very uncommon to find two people that speak the exact same English because there are so many different forms of the language and same thing with Spanish.
They are also known as "unteachables" and not the eager-for-college students she was expecting. At first, it is very hard for her to be close to them. They even doubt her intention to teach them. However, she has her own style of teaching in which she finally earn their trust and encourage them to receive the knowledge. She get them to read a novel The Diary of Anne Frank and write about their own life experiences in daily journal.
Language is a key in relationship. We all use English language in different ways depending how we grow up with it. While, on the other hand, in the article, “Mother Tongue” Amy Tan describes how English affected her and lead her to become a great writer “When I was growing up, my mother’s ‘limited’ English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English.” Her mother’s limited English actually helped her a lot, and I strongly believe that her mother’s limited English lead her to become a great writer. By that meaning, when Amy Tan was a kid, she saw how her mother had difficulties in the society because the lack of communication.
I thought it was amazing how unfamiliar she was with cultures outside her own. Ms. Kim states on p. 62, “The first English word I learned at the junior high near Queens Boulevard was F.O.B., short for fresh off the boat.” My first thought was how cruel, but a true reflection of America in Queens. Ms. Kim was used to a sheltered, reserved life. She makes reference to this in this essay where she speaks of having a governess and maids to answer her beck and call. Ms. Kim was not accustomed to hearing children label as she was accustomed to being around her people of her status.
Parent and Children Relationships in Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time Growing up, I had a single parent household with my father as the primary caretaker. I had quite the privileged upbringing, although something was always missing, my mother. At first I was just sad about losing her, then I grew to resent her. Similar feelings of resentment were also portrayed in the novel, A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Meg at first falls back on her father for guidance and security, but soon realizes he cannot provide that.
I leaned that sometimes speaking your mind no matter how intimidating can usually pay off in the long run. Writing an essay for my GED was not such a pleasant writing experience. I wrote my essay on my grandmother, and even though I felt it was passionate and detailed the instructor was looking for more. It seems, when writing for a grade, they were looking more for form, punctuation and proper grammar. Disappointed as I was I realized its not always the subject as much as it is your form and process that gets the grade I learned to pay more attention to my technique and process.
There are also some people who start to take classes with a foreign language because of their education or something like that. But no matter what is it always difficult to learn a foreign language. In the essay “Me Talk Pretty One Day” written by David Sedaris we follow forty-one year old David who is going to learn French. He knows a little French but it is not enough to understand everything his teacher says at all. During the essay he uses a lot of his time on telling us about the people in his class.