Monday, February 1, 2010

Writing in English is a challenging way to learn

Everyone can write. What just matter is how good you think of ideas and how these are organize and use in building strong compositions. I’m not best in writing indeed, but for the long time that I’ve studied since elementary up until now on my first year in college (not so long actually), I noticed some factors that really made writing hard for me. Firstly, the confusions on word usage. Sometimes I can’t distinguish some words in a way that I can use them in right manner in a sentence. Mostly these are words that aren’t so familiar to me or words that either are verbs, adjectives, or nouns that really confused me when the right time to use them and the correct placements of these words in a sentence. I encountered words sometimes that look like nouns but then realize they are adjectives and also nouns that look like verbs. Second thing is the grammar. If it’s hard to identify adjectives, nouns or verbs, then definitely it’s not easy to present a well made grammar. What I just did always is make a simple sentence to be sure that I’ll derive a correct grammar. And third is the use of another term for a word. What I mean is the synonym of a word to create a much mature grammar. That is why it is recommended reading a lot to widen more our vocabulary and improve more writing. This sometimes also is the reason that took me so long when writing that I just spend all my time looking for an appropriate word. I’m actually that kind of writer who took so long in just revising my work. I think a lot of times choosing appropriate word whenever I write. Sometimes I came to a point where I write nothing. Everything feels blank that I cannot think of new ideas to continue. Compared to those people who are brilliant enough like they’re machines with unlimited thoughts; people that are born writers. But for someone like me, practice is necessary and I believe that practice is always present in writing. Of course! Well it’s normally hard to write when you are not native of the language used. That is why writing in English is a very challenging way to learn.

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