Learning English As A Second Language

Coming to the United States from a Spanish country means facing many challenges such as learning a new culture as well as a new language. Learning English has alway been a challenge for everyone. However, this gets worse when you’re learning English as a second language. This is because the second language English learners fears of getting bully. Another reason is that they’re scare of getting people laugh because of the way that they pronounce the words or their accent. At the same time, they scare to give the wrong answer because they couldn’t understand the topic of the conversation or lesson. Thankfully I wasn’t the exception because this make me stronger.

My first day in a school in the United States the teachers took me to the gym. Minutes after they brought other students. An hour after the teacher started calling numbers and names and I didn’t know what was going on. But everything was fine until they called my name and mentioned a number. I stayed sitting confuse and without knowing where to go. I decided didn’t move from that chair until the woman pointed to my teacher “Ms. Rivera”. All the students there kept looking at me while I was walking towards my class which was on the other side of the gym. Actually, that was one of the most embarrassing moments of my life. Luckily enough for myself, they place me in a bilingual class. That class was full of student whose were English learners like me.
One of the group was the students who didn’t know any English. But on the other hand the other group was the one who had better reading skills. My group was in charge of reading books like “Are you my mother” by P. D. Eastman while the other was reading “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. The advance students used to try to make fun of us because we were reading a kindergarten book. This cause many fights between the two