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05 June 2013
The way that how I overcome the English
How do you make yourself like to read? I would say that treat you as a child. Give a mission and give reward to you if the achievement is really deserve. Such as that there was something that you really wanted to buy but you couldn’t because of saving some fund for future that you would not know what it happen. After you getting used to read and writing with this method, you will realize that you like to do it even though there is no reward. That is how I made myself like to read and write. I remember that I liked to read in my childhood. In my most of childhood, I hold a book most of time in my hand. I really liked to read a book, especially oriental fantasy book. One thing different from now is the book was Korean but now is English.
When I was in high school in Korea, I hated not only reading but also writing in English. Because every time I read English paragraph, there was at least one vocabulary I didn’t understand and I had to open up the dictionary and looked it up. In my high school, they did not let student have an electronic dictionary. We were allowed to have only big, heavy, and thick hard cover dictionary. It was always distract me when I tried to read something but I had look up the vocabulary in the middle of the reading. The English teacher in my high school, he focused on grammar instead of just reading and writing. He taught us how to analyze the grammar than interpret the sentence.
After I moved into the state with this reading habit, I always had a problem read a book, or news. I still had to look up so many vocabularies I don’t understand and I lose point of the topic in the news after I find meaning of the vocabulary and I had to read it again. And in the book, I lose the story in my head at some point. Because of this, I started to hate reading something and have hesitation to read and write something about English. And I had a kind of trauma about English. I started to have

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