Essays on Learning English

Learn to “sink or swim,” Jamie Malernee said. She was saying that you have to keep going or you will fail in life. In the process of trying to master the English as a second language, there comes a lot of challenges. “You have to deal with lots of challenges like embarrassment, confusion, and frustration…

I was born in Brazil, on the 27th of June, 1986. That’s where I lived until I was 8 years old, and then I moved to the United States for the first time. My father wanted to achieve a Master’s Degreee in Marketing, but we had not moved to a little town in the state…

From the day I was born my father always wants me to be the best person in the world I remember he was motivating us to do the best that we can do he always supported me, my brothers and my sister. By having a dialogues about my future he made me understand that the…

For many people, learning a different language can be exceptionally difficult. Growing up in a primarily Spanish-speaking family and country, made coming to America where the language primarily spoken is English somewhat hard on me. I had to start picking up on words and dialects that were completely foreign to me. I would say I…

Last year, my friend, who did not speak English, went to the USA. When he arrived at the IAD airport, he had a big problem. A customs official asked him, “Why are you here?”, and he answered, “I am a tourist”. Unfortunately, he pronounced it wrongly; he pronounced it as a terrorist. Therefore, he was…