Monday, September 23, 2013

Homework podcast


I listened to That's how I learn English and below writing is the summery and my reflect to it.

That’s how I learn English

The first time he came to the US, he was seventh grade and he couldn’t make himself understood well because he rarely knew a few English greeting words and he spent his whole summer alone since he didn’t have any friends. Ms. Koh, the teacher at his ESL was expressing something to him by body language about what was happening on September 11, and he understood what she meant after turning on the television at home. He learnt to speak daily life conversation by watching the Simpson and also news report. At the end of eighth grade, he could understand most of the things Ms. Koh was saying and he understood that her husband was a pilot but the plane he was controlling wasn’t hijacked.
I could understand how he felt for the first few months of his school because I was a little bit in a similar situation as his. Learning a second language outside the home country without any knowledge about it has a lot of stages to overcome and might be overwhelming but I think the more the person whose learning it is serious, the better it gets quickly.

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