One skill I’ve taught myself with such ambition would be my language skill, which is English, and English is my second language. And to be honest, I walk myself through every stage of learning this language, and I kind of did it all by myself. The main reason of me learning English and deciding to learn this language would probably be my admiration for people who were fluent in English and who kind of could express their thoughts, their opinions in a whole different language, which seems really impressive to me to this day. And I kind of started learning this language like four years ago and it took me long enough. It’s like reasonable because it was just all me and I made lots and lots of mistakes throughout this whole journey learning this language. And I just would scroll down to the internet and see people speaking this language. And I randomly decided to learn this language. And when I first started committing to learn this language, I started with English contents. I found my favorite celebrities, actresses, actors who speak English really well. So I kind of started shadowing them. I looked for some tips, hacks to learn this language and so many advice from a lot of people just in the language industry. And I achieved this level by training constantly, training and writing down so many words and shadowing and also reading lots and lots of books in English, which was like the essential requirement for learning a language. It was just so hard journey, but I think I made it. And this skill benefited me a lot because now I finally decided to teach English and become an English teacher and I can safely say that it was the best decision I’ve ever made is just to start learning this language.
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One skill I've taught myself with such ambition would be my language skill, which is English, and English is my second language. And to be honest, I walked myself through every stage of learning this language, and I kind of did it all by myself. The main reason for me learning English and deciding to learn this language would probably be my admiration for people who were fluent in English and who could express their thoughts, their opinions in a whole different language, which seems really impressive to me to this day. And I kind of started learning this language like four years ago, and it took me long enough. It's like reasonable because it was just all me, and I made lots and lots of mistakes throughout this whole journey learning this language. And I would just scroll down the internet and see people speaking this language. And I randomly decided to learn this language. And when I first started committing to learn this language, I started with English content. I found my favorite celebrities, actresses, actors who speak English really well. So I kind of started shadowing them. I looked for some tips, hacks to learn this language, and so much advice from a lot of people just in the language industry. And I achieved this level by training constantly, training and writing down so many words and shadowing and also reading lots and lots of books in English, which was like the essential requirement for learning a language. It was just such a hard journey, but I think I made it. And this skill benefited me a lot because now I finally decided to teach English and become an English teacher, and I can safely say that it was the best decision I've ever made is just to start learning this language.
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