Importance Of Learning The English Language

The more I grow, the more I understand just how important language is in the world. English is the only language that I speak and I learned this language from my parents. English is the only language that my parents know how to speak. Although, interestingly enough, when my mother was a child, her mother and father would speak Italian throughout the house. They soon stopped speaking Italian when my mother began to catch onto their private conversations. My mother lost her ability to understand the Italian language quickly after that. I still wish that my mother continued to learn the Italian language so I would be able to express that part of my heritage in that manner. My parents urged me to learn the English language by reading me many books …show more content…
I took Spanish for three years. I never felt confident in the classroom and struggled a great amount. I in part blame this struggle on my teachers that should have assisted me in this process, while at the same time blame it on myself for not taking more of an interest. It was a wake up call for me because I never understood how ELL learners must feel learning the English language. By the third year of Spanish class, about tenth grade, my teacher kindly pulled me aside and told me that I was barely passing. At the end of the conversation she kindly said, “ I think that maybe you should reconsider taking this again next year”. After that conversation I left Spanish behind and never looked back at it …show more content…
When I am in a setting where I am unfamiliar with the crowd I grow quite and I will only smile a lot. For people who are just getting to know me they have the understanding that I am shy, but still friendly which is how I have been since I was a little girl. However, if I get to know a person better then I will create more of a dialect. My language communicates who I am because I always choose my words wisely and have a calming tone. Because of this, people understand that I am not a hyperactive person, I am calm and rational. They should get a sense of this because I do not choose to use exaggerating and colorful words. Finally, my peers can tell from my language use that I am educated and have been through the school system. If I did not use proper grammer like, “ today my incentive to workout is that I am going on vacation” my peers would know that I am not well