My journey of learning English This is my speech in my English class: Like many Vietnamese people of my generation, I started to learn English at secondary school. Most of what we learned was vocabulary and grammar. We learned them via exercises such as filling in the blank, choosing the correct word, finding the mistakes ... What is the result? When I was in university, I can read, write and translate pretty good, even made money with translation job. But I can't communicate in English. I don't understand what others say and many people don't understand what I say. Many people told me "Your pronunciation has some problem", "your pronunciation does match with your English level. I thought your English level is the beginner when you started to speak". So deeply hurt! From that moment, I have never been confident with my pronunciation. Do you ever hear about Liebig's Law of the Minimum, often simply called Liebig's law or the law of the minimum? I have a photo here in order to help you easier to imagine. The capacity of a barrel with staves of unequal length is limited by the shortest stave. So, I started with my biggest weakness. It' pronunciation Chapter one: Pronunciation My pronunciation is not good because my imitation ability is poor. I can't imitate to pronounce as teachers, even they have just finished pronounce. I can't differentiate some consonants and have a lisp even in my native language, Vietnamese. I download all pronunciation programs what everybody says good or popular. Thanks to these programs, I understand why I mispronounce and how to pronounce exactly the word, not just by imitating. I even have learned many similar programs, simply because of my confident more than the desire for standard pronunciation. So I stayed at this stage for quite some time. If we have next class, I will share more detail about my pronunciation learning. My pronunciation is currently much better. And I got confused to find what to learn next. I think about response skill because if I have a lot of preparation time, I can speak fluently like that. Otherwise, I still have difficulty to communicate, partly because of lack of confidence Actually, I have no specific plans for improving my response skill. I will continue to find out the way to learn that suits me best. Finally, what I want to say here. Build your own journey of learning English, based on your strengths and weakness as well as your goal. Don't imitate exactly how other people learn.