Today is the first day of the second week of school. Everything hardly makes a difference with last week, including that no matter the staff or the whole atmostphere, is in extraordinary slow motion. They walk slowly just like jogging in countryside, eat slowly, the counter person talking to other staff when theres a bunch of ppl waiting for her, the whole pace is slow except that, they speak real fast. Believe me. The adults are quite easy to catch up when comparing with the classmates. Oh my gosh! is everything popped out of my mind when they are making jokes that I cant help but to scratch my head. 'Theres still a long way to go....' man...
Whats funny is that when I tried to talk to an Indian classmate, I look like im deaf. I keep saying "huh?" dozens of times before i can finally catch what he means. Haha thanks to my poor English. It is indeed one of the biggest obstacle for me to make western friends because who would spend time on u, repeating every sentence for loads of times when they can choose to talk to a guy of their own kind? The other one is my personality which I think its hard to change.
I just came out of a refreshing shower (Its freezing in mid-Sept, which never happens in Hong Kong) and when I was inside bathroom I talked to myself, or God if u wish, that I really wanna speak English real fluently just likt the local ppl. I always think im good at imitating people but now when I think about I have learned English since i was 4, and now I still can master the technique of speaking English! SO what a crap I am!!! How ironic.
SOmetimes, I really feel bad about all that. Do something, Kelvin Li.
Do something, yet Im still groping my way for the 'something' that will hopefully lead me to success.
Cheers,
Kelvin
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Hi,Kelvin, I am sorry that I have accidentally gone to your blog. You have shown its address on the msn, so I am here now. There is one thing that I would like to tell you.Your english, there is actually nothing wrong. It was not the problems of your english that you failed to catch up with those young guys. Let me tell you something. I know an native American speaker who is an adult.
When he listened to those young guys in American, could you guess what he felt? He himself too couldn't catch up with them! You Know what means by that? Well, it's all because nowadays, those teenagers in american speak really really fast, nearer up to a level called 'abnormal'. Also they use lots of informal,colloquial word that is only known by them,e.g.(when we speaking in cantonese, we say 'hei' which means lazy or something like that, some of our adult don't know what that means).So what I want to say is that don't blame yourself and work hard to learn some advanced english.^v^ (The story about the American adult is ture,really,it is not a story that created by me to persuade you, trust me)
thats cool man!!
thanks ya I feel much better!!!!!
Cheers,
Kelvin
now I know the "living speed" is differ from Hong Kong, haha:)
I believe you can deal with the obstacle, good luck!
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