Since I come from my country, I have difficulties reading in English a lot. Not only that, but vocabulary, grammar, slang, and phrases seem to be just several of many challenges I have in reading English. Even though, I have lived in America for 10 years. I never really got a chance to learn English properly. Maybe because I had a lot of personal issues going on so that caused a problem. As time moved on, kids began using slang that I didn’t understand. Also, in English books, I tend to misunderstand a lot of terms or phrases as I’ve mentioned before. I guess for my level of English those sorts of things would be confusing. Moreover, even when I speak, write, or read, I seem to have a lot of trouble with grammar. My whole family does actually like we would say, "can I have this one' at the store, instead of "may I have the strawberry ice cream" or "uh yes" with that accent we all seem to have. Another problem for me is also my vocabulary. Since I have such a short vocabulary, I have to look up a lot of things and that takes a little time, but time that should have been spent reading. It doesn’t necessarily make me feel uncomfortable or stupid but it does get me frustrated at times because well time isn’t something that I have. Slang, I don’t like slang, is another issue, maybe not just for me but for a lot of other people around my age. My father told me, after he got back from Korea this year that he couldn't understand what the young people were saying. So, since I didn’t understand English very well in general, reading slang and trying to understand them made it even harder for me.
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