The Importance Of Learning, Read And Speak English

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When your parents immigrate to the United States in search for a better life there is many new things that you have to adapt to. My efforts to learn, read, write and speak English have been a significant challenge in my life. I always heard that practice improved the body, that it made it stronger and it changed the brain, but I never believed it. Now as I grow older I have noticed that learning something new doesn’t always take much time, and that my body is capable of doing many things.
Growing up in Detroit, in a Latino household I entered school knowing little to no English. It all started when I was eight back in elementary school. Having to go to school without speaking English was not easy. Not being able to understand what was going …show more content…

When learning a new language, you don’t use your body physically, but mentally. Sometimes when we look at sports we only view the health related side and how they will impact the body physically. We never tend to think about the mental learning that is involved with the sport. You don’t go through the same pain when learning a new language as to when playing a sport, but you still have some obstacles to overcome. If you think about it learning how to play a sport and learning a new language both teach you things about your body. There have been many times that players make mistakes during a game, and that connects to all of the times that I made mistakes when I couldn’t pronounce words as a kid. It’s okay to make mistakes because you have a body with a brain, and not a computer. Ever since I was a kid I noticed that I wasn’t like all the other kids. My friends often learned school material faster than I did, and I always felt like I was let behind since my English wasn’t good. It was until I started to realize that everyone had different strengths and weaknesses and that it was okay to be slow. Everyone also has different learning styles and everyone’s body works

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