Topic #3. Obstacles

                I have never had any serious obstacles that I overcome in my life, like disability or discrimination. However, I have trouble in learning other languages now. I need to have good English skills and also Chinese for my major.  Actually, I came here to learn English last August. Now, it is almost 10 months that I have lived here. However, my English is still bad. It is so sad. Many people say if you want to learn other language, be confident and aggressive in speaking. However, I am a quite person. That’s why learning other languages is so hard to me. Also, the pronunciations are so difficult, especially Chinese. Sometimes when I talk with some people in here, I cannot hear the words I had already knew because I thought the sounds of words wrongly. My English has not improved that much since I came here, but I think I overcome fears in meeting foreigners and talking to them.  During staying here, I have felt that I have a lot of problems in my English. Therefore, I am still overcoming the problems and will do it when I go back to Korea after this semester.