I got a great sentiment about desire to learn today.
Due to their mono-language environment, China Chinese don’t really have the chance to practice their English speaking.
As you know, language is a study which requires real life experience. It’s not all about investigating books principle, but more to a face-to-face communication, heart-to-heart talk. Let’s get back to the basic, language is meant for communication, it’s a medium for one to understand the others, it’s a method to express your opinion out. So in order to upgrade one’s language level, besides reading on books, real life communication is very crucial.
That’s why the China students are very looking forward to our meet-up. To them, the English corner arranged is a testing session, a great place for them to test out their English speaking with foreigners like us. (In their expression, Singaporeans are great English speaker and do not know how to speak mother tongue Mandarin.) In fact they’re very anxious, they’re afraid that their English level is still not up to level.
Nevertheless, from their eyes, I can see their eagerness, their desires in learning English. I can really sense their desire to improve, as they tried very hard in uttering out every single word. They squeezed themselves not to replace the unknown vocabulary with mandarin word. As they know, English language is important, for them to survive in this new era.
Observing the way they spoke their hearts out with English, I felt that I was really a good for nothing. Though I am a Malaysian who is not native English speaker as well, at least I got the chance, to practice my English speaking in Singapore, such an English-prior environment. But, I didn’t make a good use of my times in Singapore. I didn’t really take an initiative to upgrade my poor English standard, yet let my broken English continues to grow. It’s kind of shame, for having such a great environment, yet do not know how to utilize it properly.
Thanks god that I had the chance to attend this English Corner. It doesn’t help to improve my English, but it lights up my long-dead-desire to learn English. Their desire to learn has motivated me, to brush up my English level.
I am going to be like you, learn English properly.
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