It's me again!
I found this forum extrememly helpful in order to improve my
writing skill. So I decided to post another essay to have you assessed.
Would you mind checking it out ?
Topic : What are your difficulties in English learning?>>
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Every English learner has their own difficulties in
learning this language. The difficulties differ from individual to individual.
Someone may be in deep trouble of using proper words in writing essays while
someone see listening as their major obstacle needed to overcome. In my
opinion, writing seems to be the hardest skill to grasp alongside the second
hardest one: listening.
First, let consider writing. When I write something
in English, usually an essay, my poor vocabulary has limited my ability to
express what I actually mean. Sometimes, I don’t know the word to depict what I
see, hear and feel, or how to write things naturally like an Englishman
do. Using a dictionary is not likely to
help much, because if I use any word that I found in the dictionary, it just
leads to a fact that: my writing or essay is completely weird and become
nothing other than a mess of strange expressions and irrelevant words. Even I
use an English dictionary, and I have checked the word definition well, but I
still find it hard to opt which words to use accurately. As you know, in
English, there are some terms that are fixed to be used only in some contexts,
if you express by another way, it just likes baby-writing. Therefore, writing a
paper or an essay are harder than just sitting back, reading an enjoyable books
or listening to your favourite English songs. In those case, you adsorb
passively what are imparted to you. In contrast, when you write, you need to do
brainstorming and create your own words and write down your own thoughts.
Certainly, this task is required not only ideas to write but also something
else: Write ornately or formally? Which perspectives to stand on? How to
arrange ideas well? What point needed to be emphasized or neglected? Even you use
words, terms or expressions approximately, but a poor ideas performance or an
unfamiliarity of relevant English writing style still leads to failure.
Second, consider listening. Because you don’t use
English as your mother tongue. So an unfamiliarity of listening English people
talking is no surprise. Moreover, I can’t concentrate much when listening,
especially listening to a bad English tape or long and technical conversation.
Sometimes, this obstacle stems from other matters. Usually, I hear the words clearly
but need a little time to remember what it means. Additionally, I pronounce
some words inaccurately so when hearing the right pronunciations, I almost
can’t recognize them. But in my opinion, this problem can be easily dealt with.
The key to be successful is very simple: just listen as much as I can and the
progress can be by leaps and bounds. This task is a continuing one and it does
take time to get improved. I need over 2 month to make progress in listening.
Now I focus on listening to technical or professional issues. They are far more
difficult than just daily conversations.
On the whole, I see writing and listening as the two
most difficult skill to be made fluent. Other skills like reading and speaking
don’t bother me much because I’m rather confident with those skills.