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The challenges that I faced in my life Have you ever had a hard time learning another language? I have been an immigrant 's for eleven years. I was born to be an immigrants, since I was in third grade my family and I left our country because there was war going on, so that was our decision to leave and save our lives. We left our beautiful house, my school, my family, my friends, and my neighbours. I was crying because I did not want to leave Iraq, but there was not any other choice to make other than moving to another country. Learning the traditional of a country plus learning their language is extremely hard, also acopmplistion your gaol by learning all of this is a great thing that you would do in your life. We went to Syria in the bus …show more content…
The last day in our house was completely empty I was walking around looking at the room kitchen in each place I had a great, happy, or a sad memory. Believe it or not I am crying right now while I am typing I missed Syria and Iraq a lot, you can not even imagine how much I miss them. We got in the taxi was looking at all the streets known that I’m not coming back and leaving to an extremely far place. Then we arrived to the U.S it took us three days in the airplane that’s how far it is, we could not rest for a straight three days. So the UN immigrants gave us a house in Oklahoma, they told us that we are allowed to change states if we want. We lived there for few months and we came to California, we thought here would be better than Oklahoma, but there was no difference. I did like both states, they look nice even the schools look amazing. My dad start doing all the papers for school so I can start going to school. In my first day at Grace Davis High School, I was with my mom and dad in the office, I saw a girl was sitting front of the nurse office, she looked sick and upset. I was talking to my mom in Arabic saying mom look at her at that girl, poor her she look sick. She answered us in Arabic no I am not sick, but today is my first day here and I do not speak English. That girl’s name was Falantina since that day …show more content…
Sometimes people laugh when I read in class that hurts me a lot from the inside, this is not my country, but I am trying to learn and have an excellent future have a job and choose a career that I like to work with. Basicly it is not easy to keep moving around different countries with different language. My story and Always Running story are matching a lot, there is a lot of similar thing that happened to us. We were always trying to find a job and to get money to live, that is the main reason we are here to make a career and to live better than what my parents had, they were trying their best to make some money to make us happy and to get educated. I think my parents so much because they brought me here to have a better future, I was really upset when we moved, but now I think them a lot, and that is the main reason that I will not choose a far colege that way I can be close with my family and help them out if they need my help, I would be more than happy to help my parents
One day, my parents talked to my brothers and me about moving to United States. The idea upset me, and I started to think about my life in Mexico. Everything I knew—my friends, family, and school for the past twenty years—was going to change. My father left first to find a decent job, an apartment. It was a great idea because when we arrived to the United States, we didn’t have problems.
For me adapting a new language was tough because where I came from we don’t verbalize English. So, before we move to the United States I had to get that primary knowledge of English in a short duration. At that time I consummated my one semester of 9 the grade. My parents thought of dropping me out school, so I can just focus on English. Since then my main focus was to learn English. I think that was the hardest thing I have done in my life. Day by day I was learning incipient thing, but I wasn’t quit understanding the language.
It's really difficult decision for my parents. We were not happy because we have to leave everything behind included our small house, family tradition, culture, and homeland, where we called home for years. My life had been changed since my family immigrated to United States, hopes for a better future and education. My parents said my life in Vietnam was hopeless, because the education was not good, result of disciplines, and hard to be successful. Not many teachers were helpful to students. I spent majority of time and lot of money for school, but learned nothing. Rather teaching students, teachers yelled at students just for a small mistake that he or she wasn’t intend to make. My classes were scheduled for the whole day without break. The same situation happened with my siblings. One day, my parents told me that we will be moving to America. After I heard my parents announced the new, I felt that my life soon will be changed and get a better education.
Being a Hispanic have impacted all my entire life; I lived 15 years of my life in Mexico I love being there because most part of my family live in Nuevo Laredo, I was cursing my last months of 8th grade and one day my mom told me that she was thinking about send me here to the U.S to start learn English; since I’m a U.S citizen and I didn't know the language of my country, I accepted. The most hard prove was live without having my mom at my side, since I live with my aunt now; when the days passed here in the U.S I started to depressed myself because I missed so much my house and all my family, one day in the middle of the night I call my mom crying and I told her that I really want go back to Mexico, but she didn’t take into account my desire my mom just explained me that it will be the best for my future and with the time I will be thankful with her for don’t let me go back. My mom, and my grandmother are the ones who motivates me to be a better student. Actually I’m in dual enrollment and I have taken AP classes; sometimes is hard for me talk, read or write in another language that the one I was accustomed but, every time I fail I get up and persist until I’m able to do what I want.
I come from a low income family with no background. My parents do not speak English. When we first moved to America, I had to teach myself English and then teach it to my parents. It is agonizing and heartbreaking to see how hard my parents work for my siblings and I. As immigrants, they work day and night in order to provide us with a better education and life. My mom leaves for work at 4 am and comes back at 7pm. My dad leaves at 5 am and comes back at 8 pm. Ever since my sister and I were young, we had to act like adults. We did all the chores, study, cook and more. My parents sacrificed a lot for me, just so I would have a taste of success that they never...
When I first came to this country, I wasn’t thinking about the language, how to learn it, use it, write, how I’m going to speak with people who are next to you and you want to talk to them. My first experience was in Veterans School, it was my first year in school here in United States, and I was in eight grades. The first day of school you were suppose to go with your parent, especially if you were new in the school, like me. What happened was that I didn’t bring my dad whit me, a woman was asking me a lot of questions and I was completely loss, I didn’t have any idea of what she was telling me and I was scare. One funny thing, I started cry because I fell like frustrate, I didn’t know no one from there. Someone seat next to me, and ask me in Spanish what was wrong and I just say in my mind thanks God for send me this person, then I answered her that I didn’t know Engl...
Immigrants, of course, can use their language in America, as Charles explains, "[an immigrant] may speak [their language] in the street and proudly teach it to his children. " Foreign language can still be expressed in one's life even though there is a more common language. However, Krauthammer goes on to say, "[An immigrant] knows that his future and certainly [his children's] lie inevitably in learning English as the gateway to American life." In order to belong in a new land and successfully communicate, an important step to take would be adapting to the common language.
Learning a new language is most difficult things an individual can do but, if someone wants to a new language the best time to do so is at a young age. I was born in the United States but when I turned five years old I moved to Mexico. The only language I knew was Spanish. Spanish is one of the easiest
My parents sometimes got the notion that they knew everything in my life. They constantly advised me to eat my vegetables, do my homework, and put the toilet seat down after going to the bathroom. Yet, I felt as if my mother and father never understood what I went through in school due to the fact that they grew up in a totally different country. I’m sure that if I were raised in an Asian country, no one would pull their eye sockets back and start singing some gabble that didn’t even include a real character in any Asian alphabet, because we would all have the same face. My folks just moved to the “land of opportunity” in hopes of getting me a bright future; a land that has high school kids shooting up fellow students and teachers. Some future.
We got off from plane and headed towards the exit. My cousins and my family case worker were already their waiting for us. I was so shocked and the same time I was so happy to meet with my cousins after 6 years. This days too when I went to airport reminds me of that day. We collect bags and headed towards my cousin’s house, I was so hungry and I asked my cousin “what kind of food you made” she knew that we love Nepali cosine so she had made Nepali cosine. We ate food after that I went upstairs to rest. I was so excited and little bit scared to be here and start my new life in USA because I knew that USA life is different than Nepalese life style, however that day was my best day ever in my life. I felt like my dream came true. I had a lot of things going through my mind. Like what am I going to do, what is best for me things like
Some might say that English is too hard to learn, especially the older you are. This is not true, a study by Swedish science shows that the brain can still learn even if you are old.” They noticed that the older subjects spent more time on the valuable words but their recall was just as good as the younger subjects”( Lane). This shows that even older adults can still learn a language. Some might say that making them learn English is a waste of time and money. But this is not true, helping them learn English will make them a better competitor to society. Some might say that learning a language will take time. But it 's better to start at the beginning and be rewarded from the benefit than start when it is too late. The time and money that is spent will in return help the American people more than it harms them. Some Americans might not want to help immigrants just because they are not Americans, but they have forgotten what kind of people America is made of. We need to help the immigrants because they are the future of America. Immigrants help build America and they will help build the government if given the right
There is always going to be obstacles that you have to overcome but once you overcome them a lot of doors open for you. Learning English for me was one of those obstacles I had to overcome but once I learned English I was able to help out my parents with translating and speaking it. Also making them realize that they also had to learn English because I wasn’t always going to be around to help them out. Yes I got frustrated a lot translating for my parents but looking back at it now I wouldn’t change it because it’s made me who I am
It was about two years ago when I arrived in United States of America, and I still remember the day when I left my native country, Honduras. As I recall, one day previous to my departure, I visited my relatives who live in San Pedro Sula. They were all very happy for me to see me except my grandmother Isabel. She looked sad; even though she tried to smile at all times when I was talking to her, I knew that deep inside of her, her heart was broken because of my departure the next morning. I remember that I even told her, “Grandma, do not worry about me, I’ll be fine. I promise that I will write you letters and send you pictures as much as possible.” Here reply was, “I know sweetie I know you will.” Suddenly after she said that I started to cry. For som...
When my family and I immigrated to the United States, I told myself that learning a new language and adapting to a whole different world with a diversity of traditions and cultures were not going to be obstacles for me. Although I knew
Living in a developing society that is an opportunity could help people improve their skills such as in communicate and education. Moreover, when children grow up in good environment, they could have more condition to get good health and career. No doubt, from past to now, although people could live in any circumstances even poor or rich, they must have love from relatives and friends. However, love and belief are not only help people have happiness, but it also can make we disappointed. Certainly, I would not be exception, so a conflict was happened between my uncle’s family and I after one year I lived in the US. Because they are complained lot of my conduction individual such as rent payment, my jobs, and the top of our argument is they wanted me to leave their house, this problem could lead I thought about I should or should not live