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A time when I had to overcome a language barrier was the first day of middle school where I transferred from an ordinary high school to an international school. Since I was very young until that time, I’ve always been tied as a primary language. I’ve never spoken English before in my life. I only […]
Well, I would like to talk about the time when I had to overcome a language barrier. So it was a while, a long time ago, probably like five, six years ago when I was a little kid. So my store actually started between the academic year when I started at school. So at that […]
I overcame a significant language barrier when I called the clinic to make an appointment last week. I was very confused and frustrated because I called them and Zeriz and not much communication between them to understand them perfectly. But I talked so good and as a madam who talked me was understanding everything I […]
Yeah, I want to talk about a time I overcame a significant language barrier. It happened a few years ago when I went to Lumbini with my friends. When we were visiting a Korean temple, I wanted to use the bathroom. But as my friends had already left ahead for clicking photos, I couldn’t find […]
Well, one horrible time when I overcame a significant communication barrier was during my first year working in a school here in Abu Dhabi where all students and admin staff were locals. So as you know, even if we are all Arabs, but they have different, we have different and different accents, which really makes […]
Okay, like I said before, I am from Russia and my father had a new job from Turkey and that’s why we moved there. First time I was there it wasn’t really pleasant because I didn’t know the language pretty well so it was kind of hard to me to understand what other people are […]
As a student who goes to international school in a country where people speak another language, my country speaks its main language is Arabic. And my parents signed me up for an international school where the main language is English. I got comfortable speaking English and used English as my main source of speaking. But […]
A time I had to overcome a significant language barrier was when I was doing my internship at CCC House Maharangamma. It’s a location where patients who aren’t in much serious conditions can stay the night without being admitted to the hospital itself. Me and my friends who were doing the internship had to ask […]
When I was a high school student, my mother and I went to Cambodia. At that time I could not speak any foreign languages including English, German and French. I could only speak Korean so I don’t know how to communicate with the native Cambodian. I just go there as a package in travel. So […]
A few years ago I traveled to Japan for a short study program. At that time my Japanese was almost non-existent and I realized that even simple tasks like buying food or asking for directions were very difficult. One day I needed to get a train station but I couldn’t understand the sickness or to […]
I did my Erasmus in France so I didn’t even know any word in French so when I first landed in France I noticed that it was not gonna be an easy process for me because French people were not willing to speak in English with me but then something happened that changed me a […]
Actually I believe that language learning is a different thing. During my childhood days I used to learn Hindi which was our national language during that time. For me it was easy to learn. But during our lower primary session we have been learning English and we learned English learned English through that time, alphabets, […]