My English Language Learning Journey. It was a hectic one actually. As I come from a Chinese spoken family, I didn't think that language is important at all in the early stage of my life especially English. Examinations after examinations, neither learning my mistake nor making the effort to learn , same thing happened over and over again, getting the lowest grade there is for my language.

Until primary 3 when I was chosen, along with a group of student leaders to go to Australia for an international exchange program. Without any hesitation, I immediately accepted the rare opportunity for the exchange program. Upon reaching there, we will pair with the students there. We were being asked to introduce ourselves to one another and mix around as the teachers went to settle some administrative stuff. As I was bad in English, I could not bring my message across properly to the students there. Upon feeling embarrassed and ashamed of my strong ‘Singlish’, I basically keep quiet throughout the session. I envy my friends of having such fluent pronunciation in English and had much fun interacting in the exchange program. I thought to myself that if only my English was as good as their, I could also enjoy myself through the exchange. That was what happened that made me made my mind to do my best in English language despite the poor start. Ever since then, I find ways to improve my English language such as reading the books and newspaper, watching documentary, etc.

In conclusion, having a good fundamental of English language will definitely be an advantage, partly to avoid language barrier with other people. As time goes by, we will enter the working industry and interacting with other countries staff, documents such as reports and emails will be the most basic requirement for communication. Hence, I urge the younger generation to build a good fundamental of English at start.