I have challenged to myself to write an essay a day to sustain and improve my English writing skill.
Since I left from high school, my formal English study was over. I didn’t have chance to learn as other students during my summer holidays.
So, all the capacity I belonged was far lower than ordinary well trained student.
When I was in school, my English teacher only emphasized me on teaching grammar and phonetics.
May be I was good in reading but listening, writing and speaking skills were horrible.
And then, I had an opportunity to study in one of institute of medicines. Most people assume the stereotype of medical students as they are good in English. But in reality, there are many students like me in school. If my assumption was wrong, maybe I was the only black sheep back there. 😀
Therefore, I had difficulty to learn medical subject when I met with all English based teaching. I could not even construct a sentence properly.
But fortunately for me, the school teacher didn’t focus on grammar and sentence construction. I could even write without a sentence just note.
If the meaning of procedure or mechanisms were able to explained correctly,still so far so good for a student.
So, I went drifting along like that in school. Because of continuous reading day by day and started researching on internet, that experience helped me to improve my English somehow. The main benefit I gained was started from listening English songs and watching English movie with English subtitles.
I could not catch up the subtitle as first, it was still too fast for me. But when there were no movies or series with Myanmar subtitle, I had no choice to watch my fav movies with English sub.
For the speaking and reading, practicing on facebook and blog also helped me to improve. When I saw my written post on facebook back in that time, I even embarrassed myself, terrible writing with many grammar mistakes. Anyway, I hoped my writing became better than old times.
I am still trying to improve my skill because I know myself I am not good in English and I want to be the one like Daw Aung San Su Kyi who is great in both English and Burmese. I have a dream to study in western countries, to reach that far I must find a way to get out of my shell which is too conservative and I don’t fit in here. Hope that dream will come true before I am older.