Reading, writing, and communicating has always been a bumpy journey for me. Throughout my life, I have always struggled with English because it is my second language, with Vietnamese being my first. As I grew older, I received help, and with my dedication and hardwork, I was able to improve drastically. Although I still have trouble now, the improvements I’ve made sets me apart from who I was back then. Reading fairy tales and mystery books had always amused me as a kid. I would visualize myself being in the story. This technique made me pursue reading different genres and feel like I could relate to the characters. When it came to reading out loud for the class, however, I had always struggled. With my accent and tendency to skip words, this caused the class to not understand what I was saying. This would affect me as well as I tended to …show more content…
The teacher would teach me how to speak and articulate words clearly. Even though my accent is a part of who I am and my native culture, I had to adapt to the American culture and improve myself so that I may be able to thrive amongst my peers. Despite years of speech therapy, I continued to have a speech teacher in high school. Though this was a setback, I was able to overcome it and better myself. With improvements in my speech and communication to others, this led me to become the AJROTC Academic Team Commander for my school. As a leader, I had to communicate to other cadets clearly in order to complete each task efficiently. I would have to lead practice to prep the cadets for competition and this gave me the opportunity to practice being a communicator and practice my speech. Although I still had my accent, but I worked hard and improved it to make me capable of being a leader in my Colonel’s eyes. Despite my accomplishment, I still want to practice my communications skills and clearly get my point