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The Importance Of Learning The English Language

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It is a truth universally known that the English language is completely useless, Unless you live in the middle east then you really need to be able to speak, read and write English language perfectly, if you can not then we are terribly sorry you should find a different place to live. Therefore as a teenager living in the middle east I absolutely had to learn the English language, that was all the motivation I needed to get me up in the morning.

I wake up and start watching an English movie with no subtitles and hysterically laugh at what happens in the movie even though I don’t really understand the language I am still able to comprehend what is being said from the actions, then I look around I find my self watching this movie alone in the room laughing at a language I do not even understand and I laugh even more at my self acting like that, still amused though, I finish eating my breakfast while watching the movie with my whole family still asleep, till I woke my brother up from the TV noise, He gets out of his room, goes to the TV takes the power cable and looks at me saying when you understand anything of what they are saying then …show more content…

Unlike most people who have had difficulties in speaking English rather than writing it, I was blessed with a lot of people around me who speaks English therefore in a lot of times I was forced to speak in English to get my thoughts crossover to theirs which helped me a lot in understanding what was being said and even reply back, I no longer had the words stuck in my mouth wanting to

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