Well, I want to talk about my speaking skill. As I remember, I have been learned speaking English since 2007. And I think speaking skill is really difficult for me because Turkish languages and English languages, Turkish language and English language are very different each other, especially grammatical rules, alphabet, pronunciations, for example we said A, you said A and first I couldn’t understand how can speak English, how can we do that, how can we do that because because it was impossible for me. I try to learn, I always finished grammatical book and as a result, I couldn’t speak. And especially people always advised me, I mean, you should watch English TV series, you should watch English TV series with English I mean it’s okay also I did this I did do that I did that but still I couldn’t learn then I gained a scholarship for my PhD founded by the Republic of Turkey and they sent to Oxford from Turkey to learn speaking English. And now I can handle it a bit a bit but still I need to improve my speaking English because
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Well, I want to talk about my speaking skill. As I remember, I have been learning to speak English since 2007. I think speaking is really difficult for me because Turkish and English are very different from each other, especially in grammatical rules, alphabet, and pronunciation. For example, we say 'A,' and you say 'A.' At first, I couldn't understand how to speak English; it felt impossible for me. I tried to learn, I always finished grammar books, but as a result, I couldn't speak. People always advised me to watch English TV series, and I did that, but still, I couldn't learn. Then I gained a scholarship for my PhD funded by the Republic of Turkey, and they sent me to Oxford from Turkey to learn to speak English. Now I can handle it a bit, but I still need to improve my English speaking skills because I want to communicate more effectively. It has been a long journey, but I am determined to keep working on it.
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