Reflective Essay-Spoken Language

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English is the most commonly spoken language in the world, English is the chance to open up more opportunities, and English gives the wider access to knowledge. Those are the importance of English and I need to progress my English skill exchange with the far-reaching prospect. To give you some background, once, I have a friend from German, he asked that how long I study English, I answered that since I was the elementary school and he was shocked and asking why I do not have fluent English because he has studied just 4 years. His answer was surprising suddenly I asked myself why I am not perfect at English so there are some of the experienced mistakes during my English expertise development. First, grammar is the essential part of English that …show more content…

I had tried to be perfect because I was always apprehension about the mistake of the grammar, vocabulary, and my accent, by practice speaking in front of the mirror, it ended up embarrassing myself. Furthermore, I never feel satisfied with myself of whatever I did, I realize that I cannot pronounce sh and ch so I pretend to speak faster but I never look back to figure it out. Usually, it's still my complication but not that much. As a result of this reason, it affects me afraid to speak, and feel nervous when I have a conversation in English. I afraid that the listeners or person who I communicate with cannot understand my accent and I cannot understand their accent too. There was a situation that tourists asked about the direction, I can't give them any answers, so I just pointed out and they were gone. As stated in Quora topic “I don't feel confident about speaking English to others even though I have spent a long time studying English. What can I do?” by Steven Hobson, CEO at Impactfulenglish.com. Perfectionist was not confident English speakers. Durability, positive personality was the most society regarded but all the perfectionism emphasizes the vulnerabilities, faults, and imperfections. The problem with perfectionism was people would never fell satisfied with themselves because “perfect” wasn’t exist. Being a

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