Learning To Be Frank Analysis

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I learn to read when I was around 5 years old and can fully read without any problems by the age of 6. To be frank, my first reading materials were consisted of comics, magazines and children books as my parents loved spending their free time by reading numerous magazines. We were never short with newspapers supplies at home but I rarely challenged myself to read the newspapers as they usually full with words beyond my vocabulary and gore accident images. I mostly focuses on comic-like-magazines such as “Majalah Ujang”, “Gila-gila” and “Apo” as the drawings were really funny and imaginative. In addition, I really like reading the side comments between one cartoonist to another as they throw pranks and they actually do interactions with their …show more content…

The ones that I am talking about are my own classmate and lecturer and have individually published couple of books and sometimes collabs in poetry slams. According to an article by Meredith Cicerchia, “by learning poetry one can improve his pronounciation because poems contain stanzas or verses that rhyme and follow a designated stress pattern. This is because English has words that sound the same but are spelled differently and also teaches you to rhyme and strengthens the memory of how that word is really pronounced”. She also stated that “while Shakespeare’s sonnets may not be considered prime material for mastering today’s spoken slang, they represent a fundamental piece of English language history and are referred to in films, books, magazines and conversations from every corner of the English speaking world. Discovering famous poets and studying popular poems in the language will educate people about native-speaker traditions, and help them familiarize themselves with literary and cultural history”. Therefore, I think it is such a waste for us especially the students to bypass the advantages of learning

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