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Sunday, November 28, 2010

A wake-up call

It is very interesting to know that my writing ability has degraded so fast. I don't even realize that it has been so poor like this. It took me only a mere 10-minute duration to write a short paragraph a few months ago while I was practicing my vocabulary everyday, but now it takes me more than half an hour just to produce a short passage. I questioned myself too whether it is because the subject that I am writing now is much more difficult than the subjects I wrote before. The answer is not much. The point is my stock of vocabulary has decreased as I haven't practiced much lately. Anyway, that's a wake-up call for me. I should restart my vocabulary learning.



Besides vocabulary, I am also facing difficulty with my speaking ability. It has always been my weakness to speak longer than 10 minutes, admittedly. However, previously, I could speak without messing up the points I wanted to convey, but now I seem to mess up everything I said making things unclear to the audience. My friend Parinha is correct when he said that "We have to be clear ourselves to make people understand what we said clearly." That is thought-provoking. I could have been much clearer when I spoke. Again, it's a wake-up call for me to improve my speaking skill.

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