About language learning
I found it interesting how different people’s English knowledge at my university is. Some sound like they’re fluent, and some sound like my classmates at the beginning of high school. Or throughout high school, actually. Because I grew up in a country where education is not just not a priority of the government, they seem to be working on dismantling it as much as possible, so for most of those around me had not the option to learn English in school. So how did we do? Well, differently. Majority did not learn English well enough so they could speak it confidently. For me, I really had to. I knew I was going to head out and continue my studies in the universal language. When I entered high school (at the age of 14), I had been studying English for 4 years, but struggled to understand even the different future and past tenses. Then on the very first day of school in September, my new teacher drew a line on the board, and explained the whole thing in about half an hour. What a wasted...