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Reflection About Moving To America

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My life in school changed everything in learning when I moved to America. When I moved from Hong Kong to America, I started to have some troubles with understanding and knowing a different language (English) in this country and also having a problem with communication with other people who speak English. From learning English, it took me through the process to know and understand English when my mind was focusing and understanding my native language Chinese Cantonese. After a year moving to America, my ability to learning and reading at school somehow still become an issue in English. From learning and realizing about my disability, I learned that my disability works and struggles only the part of the brain function rather than a physical part …show more content…

My brain function had a problem with working about grammars in which I was a problem for me to balance my grammar more differently from English and Chinese Cantonese. My disability can cause and effect on my brain function; as a result, it's hard to balance between English and native language Cantonese. It's also hard to balance between two specific different methods of understanding English and Cantonese without screwing everything up. It’s difficult for me to try to understand right methods in both languages English and Cantonese. I also got help from some other people who specialize in writing, and they help me to improve my writing an essay better. When I was trying to understand English in the right phrase, it sometimes makes it difficult for the brain to function in receiving, processing, analyzing, or storing information at a fast pace. Also, my language disability can cause me to interfere my ability to concentrate or focus on writing and …show more content…

After I had learned about my disability and having issues with English, it causes me a little bit doubtful about having a disability, nor accepting the ideas that my disability is part of who I am. It causes me to believe that I’m incapable of learning something clever like the rest of classmates. When I get involved with support in disability at school, I somehow become distance and bitter on allowing people to help me with English. It also makes me close off to people and believe that I should rather do everything in school on my own without any aids with other teachers. Even though I try to educate myself better in school, but eventually it sometimes causes me to remember something wrong in which causes me to blame myself for my failure at school. Whenever I failed in understanding the correct educational methods more critically, I somehow blamed myself for being weak and not clever enough to get through school better. I also believe that I’m letting myself and everybody that I know done. Despite my refusal to help me with my English issues, I only allow my family to help with any problems in learning and school. When I also become distance and close off toward people helping me, I simply trying not to express my bitter emotions directly toward people who are treating to be

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