IN MY EXPERIENCE, immigrants live together and help each other.The most important thing happened to me when I studied in college. In my classes of ESL there are people from different countries. We all go through the same problems, the biggest one is language. It is delicate to learn English because almost all our life we speak and write our native language. Now, we live in the USA, we have a challenge: leave an old life for a new one. Pronunciation it is big problem for everyone. We were not born in this country,and ESL class is hard because we must change our way of speaking. Anybody must learn how to move the tongue and the lips. Every language has different sounds. Sometimes the sounds are similar like in my language Spanish, but, if not is problem?
Grammar is another problem that immigrants have. " English is crazy”, said my ESL teacher and I agree with her. There a lot rules, but because of exceptions foreigners -like me- grammar is a headache. In English words I have written one way and I pronounce in other way.
-What are we hearing? - All of us practice English. There are different places, for example: in the supermarket, in the bank, in the mall, etc, but we don't understand everything. – Not 100%- it is so hard and embarrassing when we are wrong. In case immigrants need to help each other. If we find people that speak our language, we have to help them.
In situations where English is problem, we help each other like a brother. We speak different languages, but now we live in the same country; we are a big family because we share the challenge of English .
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