Influences That Affected My Literacy

As I began studying and as I grow up, I had access to a good school, and good teachers. While Yousafzai didn’t have access to good schools, she learned by herself. One similarity that I had is family support, as well as Yousafzai. If I look deeply in the past and try to remember how I became literate, of course, I will recall that there are many influences that have affected my literacy. These influences are divided into two sections because I am a bilingual person. I have some influences that make me literate in Arabic, and I have other influences that make me literate in English. In Arabic language, which is my native language, and the language I learned first, there are two influences that affected me. First one was my father. Who was the first person who took me to the bookstore to buy books, magazines. I remember that when I was five years old, I couldn’t read fluently. He encouraged me to read by saying “Now
Families background can play a big role in person’s literacy. And some people can work hard and face many challenges to be a literate. That’s what Yousafzai did; she fights for her education, and fights to be a literate with all the challenges she went through. While I didn’t have the same challenges that Yousafzai had with becoming a literate person. Through my literacy experience I have learned important things, that learners should pay attention to, in order to improve their literacy. First, literacy requires long time and patience because it is not the process that is done in specific period of time. Second, the beginning of the process is so important because it is the foundation, and it has to be strong to continue your