My Second Language

My second language as a Korean-American living in the United States is not an easy task to grow. Of course, I know how to read and write English, but I do not know how to read, speak, and write native languages. I think that I am looking down on other people, especially Korean adults, so I am very moved. "We should at least know how to speak Korean," they talk normally in an intimate tone and try not to hurt my feelings.

As you know, English is not my mother tongue, but I write this article everyday for two reasons. The first one is my love for it; English has always been my second language, and I like to improve it. The second reason is that I am building my own writing career around it. You will ask why I am doing this and it will be one of the most expensive languages, one of the most respected languages ​​in the world. In short, how many people in the world speak Italian? Do not you understand? I will reply: Italian. How many people speak English in the world now? I do not think you need to read the statistics.

MH: This is very strange. My second language is my first language and Urdu is my second or third language. I started talking from an early age, Urdu. In America, I will play outside the townhouse in front of the campus of Stanford University where we live. Those town houses all look the same, I began to cry. Outside our neighbor's town house, the neighbor looked down at the confusing Pakistani children and said, "This is not my house, these are not my parents!" "What happened to him, why can not he speak," she said, "He said very well," they said.

English is my second language. I have not studied English till my teens. Still, my research is limited to memorizing words, learning grammar, preparing for exams. We use phrases to describe this kind of English learning in Chinese. It is called 'quiet English'. I am a victim of this. Yes, I understand. I hope I have a better answer or secret weapon to share with you. But it is not. I am different. Take Snapchat as an example. For a long time I was afraid of my accent, so I did not say that word exactly as my native speaker, but interfered the platform. Let's tell the truth. My tongue has never received such training, so some of the English letters are very difficult to pronounce like "L".

In foreign countries where tradition and different cultures differ, although one parent grows up, sometimes it is difficult and others are beneficial. It took many years to use accent in my mother tongue, so I am not conspicuous; I came up with some scholarships over several classmates. For the first time, how to acquire the first professional position at the age of 18, making a web page, making the first job at the age of 16, graduating from high school a year ago by a colleague I learned. I have finished at least one job in my whole university, and now I am only twenty-seven years old and my 15th career in my career.