I asked him if he served a mission. He said, “I did serve a mission in East Los Angeles. My mission experience helped me to improve my English skills. However, I also attended my first year of higher education at the Community College in California. I think this helped me to develop my English skills.” From this answer, I could go on with our conversation well because we both had studied English and attended the first year of college in an English speaking country before we came to BYU-Hawaii. In addition, when I asked him about his strongest and weakest English skills, he replied “Speaking and Reading.” Speaking was the strongest skill for him because of his mission, his outgoing personality, and he is talkative. On the other hand, his weakest skill was reading. He is not sure why he always have low scores on Reading, but he said “When I was in the military, I always studied reading and vocabulary for TOEFL test but reading was the lowest score.” I told him that I have a same problem as him even though I had lived in an English speaking country for more than 8 years. I thought that reading and vocabulary was the hardest part for many Korean
I asked him if he served a mission. He said, “I did serve a mission in East Los Angeles. My mission experience helped me to improve my English skills. However, I also attended my first year of higher education at the Community College in California. I think this helped me to develop my English skills.” From this answer, I could go on with our conversation well because we both had studied English and attended the first year of college in an English speaking country before we came to BYU-Hawaii. In addition, when I asked him about his strongest and weakest English skills, he replied “Speaking and Reading.” Speaking was the strongest skill for him because of his mission, his outgoing personality, and he is talkative. On the other hand, his weakest skill was reading. He is not sure why he always have low scores on Reading, but he said “When I was in the military, I always studied reading and vocabulary for TOEFL test but reading was the lowest score.” I told him that I have a same problem as him even though I had lived in an English speaking country for more than 8 years. I thought that reading and vocabulary was the hardest part for many Korean