Top 10 challenges in acquiring English

WHY ENGLISH IS SO HARD?

You may find a lone mouse or a house full of mice,

But the plural of house is houses not hice,

The plural of man is always men,

But the plural of pan is never pen. 

If the singular's this and the plural is these,

Should the plural of kiss be ever called keese?

    These days, due to global trend of internationalization, the ability to communicate well in English is needed as an essential skills. It is becoming more prominent because it reflects a person’s personality, self-image, knowledge of the world, ability to reason, skill to express thoughts in real-time. If they nailed the English language successfully, this will simply place them in a better position to secure work or communicate effectively.

     English language is popular around the globe even all walks of life had been using it but this doesn’t necessarily mean it is a simple language to master.There are many challenges that people faced in process of learning and acquiring English. For this entry, i had highlighted 10 top challenges that faced by me in acquiring English. 

1. Encouraging errors.

    People often felt intimidated, embarrassed or judged. The same goes to me. Having those feelings inhibit the new learner like me to feel more comfortable expressing myself in English. 

2. People surrounding.

    Having narrow-minded people around can be tough especially when I am in the process of  acquiring the new things like English. People keeps mocking me when I speak English which sometimes can be very frustrating. Remember, if you can’t give support to someone, then please don’t ever make them down. 

3. Do not have suitable materials.

    It's difficult to find any suitable materials in the market. For example, just a few english novels at the bookstore are suitable for beginner while the rest are for advanced learner. Not to forget, it takes a long time to digest what I have read. Having to repeat all again in order to understand the story better just make my passion flew away.

4. Fail to understand.

    When I attended English class, normally every single English teacher will teach in English. However, not all of what the teachers said I had exactly understand it crystal clear. At last, I just sat at the corner alone and wondering why everyone could talk and understand English better? Why it couldn’t be me?

5. Do not know how to express the ideas.

    Lack of vocabulary is the main problem for the new learner like me. I simply become frustrated when I have an amazing story line but I cannot adequately express it in the sentences in English to make it more interesting. For example, I always use big instead of huge and beautiful rather than gorgeous.

6. Insufficient knowledge.

    I am in a real trouble because I have really poor English grammar and pronunciation. I just don’t understand how it works. Past tense, present tense, when I have to add ‘s’ and when i shouldn’t add ‘s’? Ahh....so complicated:’( Common mistakes that I had always wrote in the past was ‘She cycle in the evening’ when it should be ‘She cycles in the evening’!

7. Having not supportive friend.

    Well, it's hard to find true friends who will always be with you through thick and thin. Living in the city in which everyone spoke in their native language make it impossible for me to speak in English with them. When I spoke in English, they will laughed at me like I just finished tell them the most craziest joke ever.... people are often unreasonable. Forgive them anyway J

8. Do not exposed to the English language.

    It’s like a habits for me, when I switched on the television, I will only watched malay movies. Why bother to burden myself watching English movies when I couldn’t even understand what they said? They spoke in the full speed and the worst part was it’s not clear at all what they had said.

9. Direct translating the mother language.

    Well, living in life lack of vocabulary was hard. It’s when the teachers asked me to make a perfect sentence and I seems cannot find a right word to write it down. How can ‘berat mulut’ i wrote it as ‘heavy mouth’?. Wow, it’s undeniable that my English level at that time was super terrible hahaha.

10. Easy to give up.

     I don’t have strong determination which is needed the most in acquiring English. My level of confidence instantly drops when I meet someone who is better in English. I know that giving up is the key to the failure but I don’t know how i just let it happened.

     Until this very time, I still in the progress to improve my English to make it better from time to time. Although I’m having a tough time facing all of these problems, I know I will be succeed at the end of time. Well, patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. We just need someone to hold our hands in life’s toughest moments. Don’t be afraid to reach out and ask for someone’s help. You don’t need to suffer alone….