Challenges In Acquiring English :)

I'm jealous!!!!!!!!! *rain**rain**sad face**sad face*

Don't you feel jealous when someone speaks English fluently guys?? Every single words that slip out from her/his mouth can even make me speechless. It was absolutely amazing you know. From that, I had gain my self motivation to acquire the language so I will be one of the person that can make other person speechless too (haha) But, in order to acquire this English language I had face several challenges and today I would like to share with all of you 10 of them :)

1.   Lack of confidence level 

Do you think it is as easy as pie to gain the highest confidence level to communicate in others' language? I couldn't even being that confident until now and I think that is why I cannot speak the same level as Justin Bieber or Selena Gomez or Madam Shahirah as well (haha) But I think it can slowly get into me if I keep believing into myself that I am able to master the language perfectly.

2.   Poor vocabulary

English is all about vocabulary because if we are lack of vocabulary we will face some difficulties to communicate in that language. For me, sometimes I am unable to understand certain words used by the person who absolutely fluent in English as well as the native speakers and it is indirectly may leads to several misunderstandings. Besides, I also lost my words when it comes to write or speak something in English. It really makes me frustrated guys!

3.   Wrong pronunciation of words

One of the embarrassing part is I always mispronounce certain English words which is sometimes I just pronounce it according to the way it is spelled and on the spot someone (teachers,friends,etc) will correct my mistakes with pronouncing the right one. This problem usually influences myself to continue the next sentences as I think that the mistakes will repeat again and again. Quite embarrassing right? 

4.   Afraid to make mistakes 

Everyone makes mistakes but it still cannot help myself to avoid from not being afraid of making mistakes because everyone will laugh and look down at me - this is my impression every time I speak English in front of other people although some of them are just same like me or maybe worse than me.

5.   Friends make fun

Not all of our friends are very supportive and being positive as most of them will mock or laugh at us when we are trying really hard to speak in English. I had experience the moment when I speak in English and someone said that I was trying to show off! Of course it is something that make me feel down and do not motivate to communicate in that language.

6.   Automatically get nervous

 When starting to speak English, every part of my body will shiver and the normal 'lub dup' sound of my heartbeats changed into the rhythm that I do not even know how fast is the speed (maybe 180km/h). This situation makes me lost every single thing that I suppose to speak it out and can you imagine my nervousness level at that time? But, I always try to overcome it day by day :)

7.   Less exposed to English environment

 Living in different regions with different cultures and lifestyles also effect someone's ability communicating in English. As for me, I live in Terengganu where most of us use mother tongue to communicate in daily life and my parents do not really expose me to the English environment as the community around me also quite low in English. So, I had to have my own initiative to learn it without rely onto others or something.

8.   Always think that English language is difficult

At first, I always feel that English is a difficult subject and almost same level as Chemistry or Biology as it is hard to get used with the foreign language because of a lot of vocabularies, grammars, rules and etc. Then, I started to find that it is absolutely wrong and contrast with the critical subjects as English is all about practicing every day without any deep comprehension or any calculations. Easy,isn't it?

9.   Rushing to learn the high level one

 I always think that if I learn English one by one and keep repeating the easy one I will be one step behind others so I start rushing to learn the high level one such as high level words and sentences without mastering the basic one and at last I stuck in the middle of my learning.

10. Easily get stress

 Stress is something usual for us as human and of course I also stressed when I am unable to write, read or speak in English well although it is my learning process. I shouldn't feel that way as it is impossible for a 1 year old baby to start running without falling many times right? It means that I must control my stress and always be patient in order to acquire English.

     So, as the conclusion there are many challenges that I faced right? However, instead all of them I just keep practicing day by day as I know, practice makes perfect isn't it? So there is nothing to worry about and I just believe that I can acquire English perfectly one day :)

Love,

CheFaziera