本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛The fact is my oral communication is still below the average after living in Canada for 4 years.
In fact, I am bad at oral communication, either in English or Mandarin due to my personality.
When I was in primary school, I liked talking but sometimes I could not pronounce a single word very clearly. At that time, my parents always interrupt me during the talk, and tried to correct my pronounciation errors.
As I attempted to continue with talking, they stopped me again and again, so I could not finish a whole sentence after repeating many times.
Unfortunately, my pronounciation skill was not improved at all. But it later brought a life-long problem to me: I became reluctant to talk. Any time when I noticed that my accent was different from other people, I felt ashamed and lost all the confidence. Now I prefer to keep quite, because the others must be laughing at me, they are not willing to listen to me, and even if they listened, they might not understand me.
I know that verbal skill is very helpful for living better in Canada.
I tried to be positive, but it is really hard to overcome the mental barriers.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net