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English can be a challenging language to properly read. There are so many rules and an infinite amount of letter combinations that will produce new words. Being able to properly pronounce each syllable in a word is hard, and being able to control the pace of your reading is even harder. Respecting the effect of the comma by slowing down your reading and making sure that you properly sound out each letter that is in the word can be difficult. For me, a student who is bilingual, differentiating the sounds of the letters in English and the sounds of the words in Spanish was extremely difficult. Reading has never been my strong suit and it still is not to this day. Being a first generation American made speaking the English language difficult, due to the lack of help my parents could provided. Speaking only English in school and afterwards coming home to a household that only spoke Spanish made learning English difficult. No one was around to help me read when it came to doing my reading homework, again because no one understood the language. I have always struggled in English class up until high school when a teacher hurt my feelings in a way I could never forget. It was October of my …show more content…

The only reason I was not as strong of a reader as I hoped I was, was because I lacked practice and determination. I did not have a strong enough sense of will power to make myself practice. This was in all aspects of my life and I realized that although my background and culture did have an impact on my early stages of reading it did not have to have an impact on my reading skills at the age of fifteen. I knew how to read at this point, I knew how to access the internet and I was able to stay in after school help with my English teacher. I let myself become a victim of shaming because I was ignorant and

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